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Apple has a lot of niceties like this in their software. I've had so many times I thought "I wonder if I can do this?" and it just works because a designer thou
by hbn 3y ago
Apple has a lot of niceties like this in their software. I've had so many times I thought "I wonder if I can do this?" and it just works because a designer thought of it before me.
Prime example I stumbled upon recently: In Apple Music, you can press+hold an album or song to pop open an action menu. I use this a lot for adding songs to the queue. There's an item to add it next in the queue, and another to add it last in queue. Usually if I want it somewhere specific in the queue, I'd just add it next and then move the song where I wanted it, but if I'm adding an album partway through the queue, that means you'll be dragging a bunch of tracks manually. So I thought, "it'd be nice if I could just drag things exactly where I want in the queue and drop it there." And then I figured I'd actually try it. If you press and hold a song/album and yank it from its place, it stays under your thumb. You can then either operate with another finger to open up the queue, or hold your thumb over it to pop it open, and then just drop it exactly where you want in the queue.
Not the first time I've come across something like this, but it's the kind of thing I only find on Apple platforms, particularly with their own apps. As much as I liked Google Play Music, you couldn't do it there, and I just checked Spotify and it doesn't let you do that either.
- timestretch 3y agoI'm surprised to see an example from Apple Music. That app is an perfect example of design neglect too. The ability to filter your song list for a specific track is now hidden in Apple Music. To reveal the filter field, you must select the "View" menu, and "Show Filter Field". Worse each time you relaunch Music, this field is again hidden, and you have to select the menu item again.
- crashmat 3y agoIt's much worse for apple music classical. It's great for classical music, but the way the library works with works and recordings is unintuitive and they decided to remove the ability to download (!?) and the ability to share playlists in the classical app and those as main-app only.
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