I know it’s pretty close to heresy for some to criticise Apple, but you do sometimes have to ask where their heads are.
When I play my music on my iPhone (through the car radio speakers on a four-hour long twice weekly commute), I simply choose a song at random and shuffle. That means I get an ad hoc playlist of a huge variety of very different music. It also means that I haven’t really being looking very closely at the music app with comes with IOS 10. But now I have and I’m baffled.
Look up artists, and they are listed alphabetically. Look up songs and they are listed – under the relevant artist alphabetically. Look up an album and it is listed – under the relevant artist alphabetically. It makes no sense. I was just now trying to find a particular song but I couldn’t find it as the songs aren’t listed alphabetically. I then realised that I had to look for the artist’s name’s first letter bin the vertical list of letters on the right.
What is the point of that? In previous versions of the app, songs albums and artists were all listed alphabetically, so why did they change it? Yes, you can search for a song or album by title, but it’s more intuitive just to go for the list.
When I play my music on my iPhone (through the car radio speakers on a four-hour long twice weekly commute), I simply choose a song at random and shuffle. That means I get an ad hoc playlist of a huge variety of very different music. It also means that I haven’t really being looking very closely at the music app with comes with IOS 10. But now I have and I’m baffled.
Look up artists, and they are listed alphabetically. Look up songs and they are listed – under the relevant artist alphabetically. Look up an album and it is listed – under the relevant artist alphabetically. It makes no sense. I was just now trying to find a particular song but I couldn’t find it as the songs aren’t listed alphabetically. I then realised that I had to look for the artist’s name’s first letter bin the vertical list of letters on the right.
What is the point of that? In previous versions of the app, songs albums and artists were all listed alphabetically, so why did they change it? Yes, you can search for a song or album by title, but it’s more intuitive just to go for the list.