#ALBUM FLOW WINDOWS TRIAL#
And continue to push Free Trial hoping to push for higher services revenue. Instead they are so focused on the social justice aspect and keep telling the media how Apple's paid out to music labels are 10% higher than Spotify. But in my view, still a bloody pile of crap. Which might have been OK for any other company and consumer / user. That is how we arrived at today's Apple Music UX. And what song or artist they are looking for, as well as repeating the same god damn song hundreds of time. It wasn't until a few years later they finally accepted defeat and accept the fact the users knows what they want to listen. As a true music nerd this may have been OK, for normally user this is just stuffing random piece of music in front of their face. And the whole UI was designed for you to "discover" music. For a long time Apple Music doesn't even have repeat the same song button. By either using AI, curated playlist or Apple Radio. If you ignore the marketing crap, what Jimmy Iovine wanted was for people to discover new music. It was Jimmy Iovine's idea that the computer / iPhone would magically know your mood and play the next song. The whole App design was about that stupid "Next Song" they keep promoting, also from Beats. ( The same to Apple Store, but that is another story )Īpple Music was initially just Beats. But it took Apple years to finally walk back on all those decisions. Not sure if he just hated Scott or the design. Basically Jony Ive hated Skeuomorphic design ( Previously Lead by Scott Forstall ) so much he throw everything out. Throwing out everything that Apple UX, UI, HID had over the years. Going from Hardware Industrial Design to everything "Design". IOS 7 was the first major UI redesign Apple had with iOS, all lead by Jony Ive. Pre iOS7 was done under a person who understands and is passionate about Music. It is basically three thing, Pre iOS 7, Post iOS 7 Music, and Apple Music. But if that's not the case, I'm totally open to a conversation as I don't have strong opinions on the matter and am also totally content with music discovery today, which doesn't emphasize cover art for easily understandable reasons, to me. Is it really moot if this is a shared experience? I think there are a lot of people that are just uncomfortable that the world changed and they never stopped to notice, and without a counterpoint thats how you sound to me. I remember people used to complain about all the other songs on albums not being as interesting as the one song they wanted, the people are the market and the market chose something else which evolved to a completely different form of music discovery. Both of which is pretty much not happening at all, I mean feel free to correct me if your world still has that. In the past, cover art would have been an advertisement for an album that contained songs which weren't out yet, and also useful when browsing physical albums in a store. In my world it is plainly obvious that music discovery occurs from algorithmic introductions, which are counted, and the song being played which is also captured by audio listening apps which is also counted. Would you prefer if replaced "no longer useful" with "has diminished significance such that it is ultimately vestigial"?
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What level of quantitative evidence would you like to see? I’m so baffled by this decision and literally cannot conceive of anyone, sane or otherwise, asking for this or even thinking that it’s anything other than the worst possible way to handle album art. In fact, on “Heroes” alone, an album originally with ten songs (my reissued version has two extra), I have FIVE (5!) different album covers, (one of which is the original, attached to only the fifth, tenth, and bonus songs). Each song gets a different cover, seemingly at random.
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I went into the article expecting someone else to eloquently echo my own thoughts and issues with Apple fucking with my album art, but this is so tame compared to what I’m experiencing.īasically, anyone who’s ever had a greatest hits compilation seems to get their “actual” studio album art replaced with the art of that compilation album at random.įor example, off the top of my head, when I’m in the album section for Low, “Heroes”, or Lodger (three David Bowie albums with iconic cover art and even better music), the only image on the page is for a different, shitty compilation album that I’ve never owned, listened to, or have any interest in whatsoever.īut things somehow get worse as you’re listening to the album.