iTunes 9: A WTF Moment
September 27, 2009
I’ve been using iTunes 9 a ton lately, and let me say… I love it. Its a much needed UI overhaul of the iTunes store, and everything works a little better.
However, there is one thing that is driving me crazy. In all versions of iTunes, its been very simple to decide how much more text you want to see. You can do this now in the music library by simply grabbing an edge, and dragging it the way you want it to go. Very intuitive and useful. Unfortunately, iTunes 9′s new music store has removed this ability. It makes no sense, and when trying to figure out the name of tracks that are named similarly at the start, it gets very annoying (as you can see below).
Have any of you noticed this issue? It just makes me wonder, what in the world were Apple’s iTunes designers thinking when they did this? Did Steve Jobs not check this? Or can it be done and I’m just not looking in the right place? Let me know in the comments.
yeah, thats annoying – but if you ‘hover’ the mouse pointer over the track name (or anything else) a yellow box will appear with the full name in it.
mike…any news when fc7 will be 64bit…..and do the right thing?
thanks blah2….your right!
Keep those software engineers honest. We want to see the software we love so much continue to get better. And nice product placement for Capella Romana in your screen grab. I have a sudden desire to listen to Byzantine vocal music…
I find the inability to resize the fields a real problem. I can’t believe this feature has been removed… VERY frustrating indeed.