I donno, Paul. Both of those apps are ugly. I mean, how hard is it to display a huge list of songs? You're right about Songbird's bad font, but Spotify pisses away the advantage by choosing a horrible low-contrast color scheme; i had an easier time reading titles in the former.
And what's with the messed up spacing? Both apps appear to chew up the whole screen, yet shove everything to the left leaving a big empty space on the right. What about a bit of a margin between that bulky useless sidebar and the list? Or maybe use it to display info on the currently playing track, or a nice animation or something. Heck, since you're blocking my view of everything else, maybe let me see incoming emails? Or at least a clock? Or, god forbid, put some frickin' labels on those tiny little buttons?
Ugh. I'm sure the differences you focus on are more noticeable in use than in screenshots, but i'm simply disgusted by how *both* apps look like shoddy iTunes / Napster knock-offs circa 2001. For shame...
paulmwatson
· 1 year ago
Good points Shog9. In fairness to both apps I "maximised" them. They usually don't take up the whole screen nor have lots of empty space.
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And what's with the messed up spacing? Both apps appear to chew up the whole screen, yet shove everything to the left leaving a big empty space on the right. What about a bit of a margin between that bulky useless sidebar and the list? Or maybe use it to display info on the currently playing track, or a nice animation or something. Heck, since you're blocking my view of everything else, maybe let me see incoming emails? Or at least a clock? Or, god forbid, put some frickin' labels on those tiny little buttons?
Ugh. I'm sure the differences you focus on are more noticeable in use than in screenshots, but i'm simply disgusted by how *both* apps look like shoddy iTunes / Napster knock-offs circa 2001. For shame...