Steve Jobs, the iPad, and cultural sugar water
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From: Richard Maine on 5 Jul 2010 18:19 Jochem Huhmann <joh(a)gmx.net> wrote: > AES <siegman(a)stanford.edu> writes: > [longish rant] > First, the iPad isn't for you. Yep. I'd say that is more than obvious. > Second: You seem to enjoy micromanaging in a nearly pathological way. > You insist in doing things *your* way, as you're used to do them. You > haven't even once in all these paragraphs said what you're actually > doing. You just talk about *how* you want to do it. You sound like > someone used to horse carriages looking at a motor car and complaining > about the absurd thing that you hardly can harness a horse to and it's > much too heavy anyway with all the useless metal things under the hood. And doesn't really understand why the darn thing isn't designed for his way. I'd guess that he doesn't really understand how to design for the larger market. That being something that Apple excels at, I doubt they would be wise to throw out all their design principles and follow AES's advice. Understand that just because something isn't for you, that doesn't mean you have to go inventing reasons why it must be "evil." I might even go so far as to say that Windows isn't evil. (Ok, that might be a stretch :-)) But it sure isn't for me. -- Richard Maine | Good judgment comes from experience; email: last name at domain . net | experience comes from bad judgment. domain: summertriangle | -- Mark Twain
From: nospam on 5 Jul 2010 18:26 In article <i0tlkq$d9b$2(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Wes Groleau <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote: > > however, the problem is that nobody at apple cares about music that > > isn't mainstream pop/rock. other genres, including classical, world and > > especially showtunes do *not* fit into the genre/artist/album hierarchy > > very well at all. > > That�s because neither does the �market� or �audience� we�ve been saying > the iThings are built for. ipods maybe. however, ipads, iphones and ipod touches appeal to a much wider audience for a variety of different reasons.
From: nospam on 5 Jul 2010 20:17 In article <michelle-1C6F10.17012805072010(a)62-183-169-81.bb.dnainternet.fi>, Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > > How about if I want to arganise by composer? > > No problem. Press Command-J, and check the "Composer" checkbox; then click > OK. You now have a Composer column, and can sort/organize on it. that's true but that does nothing for putting composer into the browser columns. those are hard coded to genre/artist/album. and then there's the ipod. yes there's now a composer tab (took long enough), but it's not really that useful.
From: nospam on 5 Jul 2010 21:18 In article <michelle-4923D2.17560205072010(a)62-183-169-81.bb.dnainternet.fi>, Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > > that's true but that does nothing for putting composer into the browser > > columns. those are hard coded to genre/artist/album. > > I'm missing something; what do you mean by "browser columns"? the browser interface that used to have a button on the main window but is now relegated to the view menu, under column browser. command-b for mac, control-b for windows. <http://images.macworld.com/images/howto/graphics/140547-itunes-browser- 586_original.jpg> oddly enough, it looks like itunes 9 now has composer and groupings available. i never noticed that before. that's a welcome addition but it still isn't exactly ideal. what *really* needs to happen is being able to define the column headings for any tag and put them in any order and have it apply to a particular playlist (which view options currently does). that way, it can be tweaked for the nuances of each genre and for the user's needs. what works for rock music does not work for showtunes, for example.
From: David Empson on 5 Jul 2010 21:25
Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > In article <050720101717355121%nospam(a)nospam.invalid>, > nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > > > > > How about if I want to arganise by composer? > > > > > > No problem. Press Command-J, and check the "Composer" checkbox; then > > > click OK. You now have a Composer column, and can sort/organize on > > > it. > > > > that's true but that does nothing for putting composer into the browser > > columns. those are hard coded to genre/artist/album. > > I'm missing something; what do you mean by "browser columns"? View > Column Browser > Show Column Browser From the same submenu you can change whether it appears on the left or top of the main pane of the iTunes window. In iTunes 9.2, you can turn on a Composer column, which solves Tim's complaint at least as far as iTunes is concerned. This may be a recent addition, as I recall old versions of iTunes could only show Genre, Artist and Album in the browser. (I turned off Genre, but I don't recall if the other two were selectable.) -- David Empson dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz |