ITunes 8: first impressions

Just got his hands up in order to drive the new iTunes adequate time and to share experiences. Total we have:

Genius - byaka. Apple has long cost to implement such a thing in iTunes, but what happened in the end I was not pleased. Genius dumb as cork, running through a certain place and posuti is another means of creating shuffle playlists. Bogomerzkih Music IP Mixer with its eternal glitches and curve mug with at least work to cope fine, "genius" is picking up some debris from the library. Meanwhile Music IP plug-in for Winamp is a complete program for a long time and works properly. So much for the innovation.

View "mesh" - quite the expected decision, since from a flat list without covers long overdue to get rid of. It implemented well. From "genre" I'm not happy because instead of blunt taxonomy could be organized on the basis of lists of speakers scans, although on what has already thanks. Overall, I liked the idea of ​​playing the album by clicking on the small arrow on the cover of Play, an amusing trifle. But with the color scheme is not so smooth (I'm talking about making a new species). In iTunes designers seem to have another round of creativity, including fix the mess in a single softiny they do not seem to ever stop.

The new renderer - good. Old high time it was sent to the garbage because garbage like we had seen enough in the days of Winamp. As usual, Apple did not invent the wheel, but simply bought the popular "magnetosphere", with whom I have had time to play.

Settings visibly relieved. Part completely kretinskih items left out (I hope that does not change the value of variables), but had goodbye, and with the ability to throw the arrow links to iTMS, disconnect that is now possible only through console. How to - read on TUAW, or looking in google :)

P.S.: and yet in one of the nightly builds Cog appeared leo-like interface. It is a pity that the program is still buggy, or would have liked to have used it to play music.