The Nappy Cat Chronicles

You see that image right above this sentence? You’re looking at the new “grid view” and “genius sidebar.” That’s pretty much it for the new iTunes. In essence, the grid view is pointless and the genius sidebar is an intrusive and clever advertisement for the iTunes store.

Two complaints:

• In “list view,” groups are separated by lines and lack top and bottom padding.
• You can’t get rid of the arrows that link to the iTunes store.

You can see both here:

Two improvements that make me happy:

• The album art thumbnails are finally cached efficiently.
• You can set preferences for each podcast.

Anyway, I still think it’s a bland media player. Color iPods have existed for how long? The blues and the grays need to go.