Comments by user "migueld"
Registered since: December 13, 2008
WindowShade is gone
"The windows can be spring-loaded so when you hover over them the window maximises again temporarily"
That's a very nice idea. Spring-loaded titlebars with auto-collapse functionality. That'd be similar to pop-up folders.
iTunes: add tracks in order
polycat33, I think you an I have the same usage and I understand the situation you describe where track # are inverted when importing from a CD. My workaround is to sort by date added so that newest is at the bottom instead of top. So importing CDs are always in order. It's not the ideal solution, but that's how I had it set up.
"That might explain why some people are demoting - if your suggestion would cause an annoyance to them. That's what this website is all about, stating your annoyance and seeing if the majority of people agree or disagree (and then potentially having apple actually do something about it)."
So far those that demoted this haven't given a reason of why it is beneficial to have added tracks out of order and that's why I asked. I just bought an album from the iTunes store, and look at the order, it's not even alphabetical it's just useless: http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/4956/picture1ck7.png
It seems that "Date Added" tries to add tracks alphabetically, but sometimes it shuffles tracks if one downloads faster than the other. Maybe one track gets downloaded 10 milliseconds faster, and so that gets added first. That seems pretty useless to me, I don't care if one track within the same album gets added 10 milliseconds before another.
"I'm not going to vote either way because what you suggest would simply make everything imported into iTunes in backwards track order, which isn't much better than the way it is now for the way I view things."
Fair enough. I have a suggestion. As one adds a new album to iTunes, have iTunes treat it as a unit, respecting track # order. Then, whether date added is set in ascending or descending order, track # would always remain in ascending order (1,2,3,4,5 etc) within each album.
iTunes: add tracks in order
Thanks for the suggestion. Yes I'm currently using an Applescript to add other sources, but obviously it's not an ideal solution. Perhaps I should make a request to have an "Album by Date Imported" option.
Stacks Unresponsive when Closing and Reopening
I agree, I also run into this often and I find it very annoying.
iTunes: add tracks in order
I sort by date added, but it doesn't sub-sort by track number. So CD albums show up in order, but other sources don't.
iTunes: add tracks in order
Who is demoting this? Why does a CD album get imported by track # but an Amazon album by alphabet?
Finder: Tabbed browsing in Finder
I don't think this is a good feature. The sidebar already provides most of the functionality of tabs. Having too many widgets and gizmos with overlapping functionality on the UI is confusing for the user and it's clutter. Look at Path Finder. Furthermore, tabs don't play nicely with Expose, that would mean another usability loss. Also, tabs only display text, no icons, unlike the sidebar, so that means that 1: they are less identifiable, 2: no proxy icon for manipulation. Also, since Finder windows are generally small, very few tabs will be possible at which point they'll get hidden under the ">>" widget. Also, tabs are still inferior to a similar feature from OS9 called pop-up folders.
I'll trade tabs for pop-up folders any day ;)
iTunes: add tracks in order
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Finder's back button overrides folder settings
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Finder: Folder View gets confused
Guys, if you have a folder full of folders, and you want it in list view because of date and size attributes for example, why would you ever want the Finder to mess with it with, say, cover flow?
Some folders have interchangeable views, and some don't. I have picture folders set in icon view, and I don't want them in anything else period. I have folders with folders set in list view, and I don't want them in icon view or coverflow, period.
The Finder should respect views that are explicitly specified by the user.
iTunes: add tracks in order
Wrote on December 16, 2008, 3:38pm
ebaur your comment is well taken and I appreciate your insight. I don't have a problem with a "Date Album Added", it sounds like a fine solution. I did mention this on one of my previous posts as "Album by Date Imported"
"Expecting "Date added" to be anything except the date that track was added to the library is silly."
Is it really? Semantically, what's being added, a track or an album? From the user's perspective an album is being added. The album is the unit, not a track. IE "at what time did you add the album?" The answer is one, not a dozen. Sure, from a technical perspective it's an array of audio files and each is being added in a sequence, one after the other. But the semantics don't necessarily need to match the underpinnings. IE if a thread returns 10 milliseconds before another, it may be silly to output such order. A developer may choose to output by alphabetical order instead.
Having said that, I guess what I'm proposing is that the "Date Added" property would be more usable if it was defined as being per album instead of per track. So suppose that's the case, then when one adds an album, all tracks would have the same date stamp. Would that make sense?
Either way, I'm fine with the other solution. I just think that the current "Date Added" is unusable in it's current implementation.