Comments on: It’s Official: Apple’s Stupidest Interface Innovation Ever

By: William

William — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:27:48 +0000

This “innovation” is so stupid, you’re right! And another problem : I am French, and in french – and probably in other languages – some menu options are too longs for this incredible “double” screen. A scrolling effect is so added on these parts of text in addition of the artworks animation : awful!!!

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 14:28:41 +0000

Just bought a 160gb iPod – the scrolling cover art across half of the menu screen is really pointless and its lame in the extreme they don’t even provide an option to enable or disable this.

Hopefully Apple will provide the option to switch this “feature” off in a future software update?

By: Kirk

Kirk — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:05:41 +0000

I think – I haven’t tried this, because I have no videos – if you paste artwork into
the videos, the iPod will only show that artwork. When there’s no artwork, I think
it takes a frame from the video to display.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:16:34 +0000

It is stupid. I’m sitting at work, and turn on my ipod. I scroll to videos, and the same thing happens. Only instead of album art, it’s a frame of my video. And yes, I have some adult content on my ipod, so of course, there’s a scrolling picture of a nude woman. I also have cartoons on my ipod, old looney tunes, which is what I wanted to watch, but I had to make sure nobody saw my ipod, because they’d then see naked people scrolling on my screen! I hate this feature! I want to be able to turn it off!

Thanks,
David

By: Kirk

Kirk — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:33:56 +0000

Thanks, that’s probably correct – I never know the technical names for those
things. I do know what a triplet is, though, and if they had used that, I’d have
been spot-on. :-)

Kirk

By: lllama

lllama — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:28:40 +0000

Isn’t it a double quaver? ;-)

By: Kirk

Kirk — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:59:56 +0000

Yes, if you remove artwork, you just see a graphic with a white musical note,
underneath which is the number of songs on your iPod (16,766 on mine, if
you’re curious).

The overall interface is more responsive, but when you view a track, you still see
a "blank" album cover, unlike the first color iPods, which used all the space
available for text. I don’t think I want to totally eliminate artwork; I just don’t
want stupid, moving, random art. Let me choose the ones to display, and I’ll be
happy – as long as they don’t move!

Kirk

By: Kirk

Kirk — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:14:57 +0000

There are white and gray imiges used when you select other sections, such as
podcasts, settings, etc., so I guess you’d see something like that. I’ll try that
later today and see what shows up instead of album art. But, frankly, I like
having my album art visible when I’m listening to music, especially when I select
Shuffle Songs, as well as, now, when you see a list of albums.

Kirk

By: bmonzing

bmonzing — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:16:01 +0000

To Apple’s credit, they are bringing this moving, random art over from Front Row and Apple TV to build on the Apple-branded media browsing experience. From a corporate branding perspective, I can understand this, but when I use the iPod classic, the interface response seems slowed down by all the sparkle. Granted, the device will appear much cooler from an onlooker’s point of view, but sacrificing the end-user experience seems out of character for Apple.

Let’s hope for some optimization in future iPod software updates.

By: Rauser

Rauser — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 03:28:24 +0000

So can you get rid of this by taking the rather drastic step of not putting album
art on the iPod? There is a checkbox for this option on the "Music" tab for your
iPod (select your iPod under DEVICES) in iTunes.

Without album art, does the iPod default to a blank background or does it have a
few canned images to use?

By: calvinccc

calvinccc — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:11:49 +0000

ditto. the first time i saw the leaked videos of the interface, i said to myself that it must be fake, that apple’s sense of style would never lead them to that! but i guess it did. very disappointing indeed.

By: dfbills

dfbills — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:01:35 +0000

I totally agree! The playback screen is great- including a quality album art
display and also showing ratings, but those split-screen areas are visually
distracting and lame.