A month ago, I blogged about Jon Hicks’s dissatisfaction with iTunes/Apple Music; at the time, I concentrated on playback aspects of the software, but this afternoon I was playing my semi-random semi-weighted shuffle through our AirPlay-compliant tv, and I remembered that Jon also bemoaned the ‘visualiser’ feature of the app.
As I was thinking of this, I looked at the TV and saw this:
(It’s my fault the title of the cut is wrong; I’m still mopping up the mess from having had to change hard drives last autumn.) Why would you design a visualiser that allots so little space top the most graphically significant feature of the album — the cover design — and leave so much empty space?
So I mocked up a comparison that would have required the Apple engineers no more than two minutes longer to implement.