The main disadvantages of iTunes, because of which the desktop version of the Apple Music awful

It has been almost two weeks after the official start strimingovogo service the company Apple. Together with exceptional accuracy and quality music tips novelty accompanies a number of shortcomings that affect the UI and UX related applications. Reporters The Next Web understood is why Apple Music to listen on your computer is terribly inconvenient, and drew attention to the six issues that Apple should fix as soon as possible.

Menu-hotdogs

Organization elements "menu-burgers" - a common solution in the planning application UI. Instead, iTunes uses the so-called "hot dogs-menu" icon ellipses that hide in themselves too many sub-items.

"Podcasts», iTunes U, «Audiobooks", "Applications", "Reading" and "Internet radio" located there, and not in a prominent place in the top left corner. This not only adds two more clicks, but also hides the category that Apple is actively developing. For example, podcasts company pays a lot of attention in the iTunes Store, but this section is not in sight in the application itself.

complicated interface

This is one of those moments that are asking for simplification. iTunes offers you to choose from five library display options, and multiple sorting options. In each embodiment, the interface is different, that only complicates the situation.

In addition, in your library appear grayed out clouds of songs that can not be played. User does not inform what the problem is and how to fix it.

Everything that relates to Connect

Apple attempt to implement the idea, previously tested in Ping, - so far a failure the same as its predecessor. Connect occupies a separate section and looks more like a decoration than a useful and interesting social network.

How often and rassharivat laykayut musicians posts, only confirms this opinion, and taking into account the availability of Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, the idea finally becomes meaningless Connect. Even the attempt to share liked items in social networks instead provides a useful description of the garbage from the unattractive and long text links.

Confusion with playlists

This point is most clearly reflects the main iTunes problem: each function or duplicated, or too difficult to implement.

The Apple Music personal playlists and recommendations are in the same partition as logical. The same logic does not apply to iTunes: here are two of them with an additional third subsection supervised Playlists tab New.

If there is New, then why iTunes Store?

By subscribing to the Apple Music, you lose the need for iTunes Store tab. With unlimited streaming of your entire library is no need to buy songs as before. If some of the songs in the music service is not available, it can be found in the tab New. It also becomes a place of acquisition of content for users without subscription. It turns out that the iTunes Store tab is needed only for movies and TV shows that it is high time to move to a separate application. The same applies to the App Store - absolutely senseless iTunes component.

Details, details and more details once

Apple gives excellent recommendations that are badly integrated into iTunes. For example, when you click Show Related you are invited to listen to similar songs from your music library, and displays a list of songs for purchase, which correspond to the current.

Even worse situation is with the estimates for tracks and albums. To the existing stars Apple added the button "like" that confound any user. The latter reflects what is happening with iTunes: the developers moved the functionality of the mobile version of Apple Music, but did nothing for its integration into the desktop application.

If the above is not enough, remember the problems with the transfer of songs in iCloud Music Library, when all the tags and adjustments disappear, making navigation difficult for the library.

Apple Music - excellent service, which I really like. On his recommendation, you can rely on, and Beats 1 leaves no chance habitual radio stations. Nevertheless desktop iTunes - it's slow and crowded deficiencies application that stands as soon as possible to fix.