![]() Most all of the functionality I used is now back in iTunes 12 and I’m glad that it’s there. These are small concessions when considering an upgrade to iTunes 12 when you need to manage your library and you need to sync your latest iOS devices. While I still like iTunes 10 for many reasons (full screen artwork), the small art panel in the lower left, etc. Apple, just pay the friggin’ patent trolls off and put Cover Flow back in. So, it’s possible it was removed from iTunes 11 to satisfy that patent lawsuit. I know that there was a lawsuit against Apple for the use of Cover Flow. For whatever reason, the iTunes engineers have inexplicably removed Cover Flow from iTunes. Apple is usually very consistent in UI design, mirroring whatever is in the OS in the applications. I don’t fully understand why it was removed from iTunes 11, but for whatever reason was left in MacOS X. It’s funny too, because Cover Flow is still available as an option in MacOS X Yosemite in Finder. Unfortunately, Cover Flow is still not back in iTunes 12. However, if you used the drag and drop method in the lower left of the window, that method is no longer here. This is not much different from iTunes 10 if you used the get info panel. It will then apply the art to every selected track. If you highlight all of the tracks in list view then right click and ‘Get Info’, you can paste the art in the upper right corner with the keyboard (as long as it’s on the clipboard already) and then save. ![]() The Playlists view is in the center section. These will also show in the left sidebar under Playlists when on Movies. So, you can drag your favorite trilogies over and create a playlist of these films. You can also create playlists that now contain movies. Once you click ‘Done’, it will be saved into the playlist sidebar and you can edit it there the normal way. Though, the playlist info is shown on the right including renaming it. You simply drag the album over and drop it on playlists and it will create a new playlist. This is relatively handy when creating a new playlist. When you search, you will get search results by song and by album. As long as I can get to list mode that I am most familiar with using, this was my biggest gripe with the the new iTunes views. But, these are more cosmetic than a problem. The Verge acknowledges as much, saying that in the unfortunate case that Apple does block the release Hu may release the app “as an open source project after seeing the response from the community.Obviously there are still differences between iTunes 12 and iTunes 10, such as the row of buttons moved to the top rather than in the left playlist sidebar. ![]() Here’s to hoping that Elvin, who is a design student at Cooper Union college in New York City, releases the app through a website so we could side-load it. “I believe they have legitimate reasons not to (patents and other reasons).” “Whether I can release it or not does depend on whether Apple approve it,” admitted Hu. It may actually never make it to the store due to copyright issues, Hu acknowledged. The app is still being worked on and there was no no word at post time when it might appear on App Store. The iPod “Godfather” and ex-Apple exec Tony Fadell called it “a nice throwback” in a tweet. Their products (among other products, such as Windows Vista and Zune HD) have greatly influenced my decision of pursuing design as a career. Before my family could afford one, I would draw the user interface layout of iPhone on lids of Ferrero Rocher boxes. I’ve always been a fan of Apple products since I was a kid. Making an iOS music app that looks like Cover Flow in #SwiftUI… /29Nfil70I3Īccording to The Verge, Elvin came up with the idea of building such an undeniably cool app because he was working on a paper about the development of the iPod at school. Hu has built Cover Flow into the section right above his software-based click wheel, and it also works in landscape mode. Turned my iPhone into an iPod Classic with Click Wheel and Cover Flow with #SwiftUI /zVk5YJj0rhĬover Flow, as you’ll recall, is a three-dimensional graphical interface that lets you scroll and flip through album and song artwork to select tracks. Thanks to Elvin Hu, there’s now an iPhone app which simulates the look and feel of the iPod classic music player complete with the click wheel interface and Cover Flow album view. Apple’s advertising slogan “There’s an app for that” for the App Store was so catchy because it was true, so how about an app for all you iPod classic fans out there?
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