In 7.0x,
I have an 8 hour playlist. Frequently, Itunes won’t play the next song or video in the list. I don’t get it. This should have been debugged, oh, 4 years ago! Wtf? Shoddy, shoddy work here. Can’t even get through a playlist. Again Winamp and Media Player do this simple task without a hiccup.
I have an 8 hour playlist. Itunes doesn’t scale for working with large playlists.
Also, 8 hour playlist. How about a feature to show me the time as I scroll down the big playlist. Could be simple or could look cool like Google Picasa timeline feature. Either way, I want to know that a group of songs is going to kick in about 3 hours into the set, and I don’t want to add up all the times by hand.
How to improve UI for me.
Media Player:
Let me access the damn CD drive from the Library! What moron blocked the CD/DVD drives from this view? Obviously, no one at Microsoft has ever tried to DJ a party with their player? A DJ has to be able to adjust the playlist without stopping the current music or losing the current playlist. If I pop in a new CD and want to add some songs to the playist, it can’t be done. I can’t even use Windows Exporer to drag a song to the playlist. Fix this.
Also, the library feature just sucks compared to winamp and itunes.
Winamp and Itunes.
One thing MS got right was the seemless movement between video and audio file. I queue up a playlist of music videos and mp3s. Media Player correctly switches between the video to the visualization without switching screens. Itunes and Winamp, Learn from this. Don’t put Visualizations and Video in different windows that conflict with each other. Guess how many times a user wants a video to run in a separate window at the same time as a visualization? Zero.
Winamp and MediaPlayer:
Itunes gives you basic controls in full screen mode without losing full screen mode. This is the correct behavior.
All:
Don’t make the music skip when going from fullscreen to windowed mode. Ever.
Itunes:
Don’t crash the entire program when you import an unknown video file. Winamp and Media Player never crash on importing any of my files. Itunes crashes on several. There’s no excuse for this.
Well hell, I just found the preference in Itunes to give the correct video to visualization option. Nice. Now it just needs to stop crashing when importing my media so that I can actually use it.
btw, here’s a smart feature.
Let’s say I make a playlist, and then the music gets shuffled around on the filesystem. No player can recreate that playlist even though all the music is in the player’s media library. How about a feature to at least try to repair the playlist. It ain’t that hard if you think about it. Not hard at all to get it partially right.
One word: “stupid”.
No three words: “stupid”, “stupid”, “stupid.”
They don’t cover it in the TexnicCenter help. I’ve been through three online tutorials and no one has given the correct instructions for producing a left hand double quote.
Inexcusably bad usability.
Usability should be a required class for all Computer Science students. It would save the world a lot of time.
Google Spreadsheets are not encrypted, but Google’s Help section tells the user over and over again that the entire experience is secure. That’s Evil.
Think anyone on the spreadsheet development team stores their bank account login credentials on a ’secure’ Google spreadsheet? Would a developer tell his own mother that it is secure to store her passwords in a google spreadsheet?
Well, the jackasses that wrote and approved the Help section just told every mother in the world that it is safe and secure.
Evil.
On the other hand, many other google offerings in their office suite support SSL for the entire experience.
https://www.google.com/calendar/
https://docs.google.com (Supports secure Word Processing, but clicking on spreadsheets from here removes the encryption.)
https://mail.google.com
-Ed
Terrible, terrible, terrible. From installation to end.
a. Installer didn’t work. Had to get a registry hack to get it installed. (should have tipped me off.)
b. Repeatedly crashes importing my library of music or videos.
I’m done.
My roommate has an ipod. She got angry just telling me about how terrible her experience was. Nothing worked right, good functionality was missing from version 6. Ipod wouldn’t synch. Crashed all the time.
Crap.
Oh, and I used latest available: 7.0.1.8
Running Winxp sp2. All latest drivers and security updates.
Steve must have been shitting himself during the keynote presentation when he showed off v7.
Or maybe it’s only the windows version that is jacked.
I’m going back to Winamp.