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I would say this is no longer basic functionality. Personal music collections were huge in the mp3 era, but today few people care about moving music between dev
by twobitshifter 4y ago
I would say this is no longer basic functionality. Personal music collections were huge in the mp3 era, but today few people care about moving music between devices.
Further if you think of the complexity involved, streaming is a more “basic” task, than navigating file formats, transfer protocols, DRM, disc storage, library metadata, and more.
- layer8 4y agoIt’s basic in the sense that it’s conceptually trivial from the user’s point of view and therefore should just work, and not break in non-intelligible ways, given that the functionality has been made available at all. Users shouldn’t have to carefully navigate their use cases based on what the majority use cases might be. A more general point is that software should establish a clear conceptual model of the things it allows to manipulate (music files, tracks, playlists, …), and all basic operations on that (insert, move, remove, reorder, rename, syncing between two devices, …) should be straightforward, orthogonal, and just work. Only having specific workflows available/functioning requires the user to memorize those specific workflows, instead of being able to reason about what they can do based on the conceptual model.
- PaulHoule 4y agoSeems to me that I might want to play an audio file somebody sent me whether it is music or not.
- DonHopkins 4y agoNow it's all cast and no pod!
- DonHopkins 4y agoIronic that the iPod was all about using that basic functionality they've since removed and now pretend never existed. Many people LOVED that basic functionality.