Get to know iOS 7: Music and iTunes Radio
While album art still exists, it doesn’t completely dominate the new Music app’s interface.
Some detractors criticized iOS 6’s Music app for its reliance on album art. Cover art dominated its Playlists, Artists, Albums, Composers, and Genres screens, while its Songs screen eschewed any sort of art. The iOS 7 version takes a different approach. These screens now show album art on the left side of the screen and information on the right. For example, on the Artists screen you’ll see representative art delivered from Apple, culled from an album, or—as a last resort—a text box that includes the associated album’s title and artist. To the right you’ll see how many albums and tracks are available for each artist.
The Albums screen likewise places cover art to the left, lists the artist’s name, and displays the number of tracks the album contains and its total playtime. Even the Song screen gets its share of album art (though it’s smaller than on other screens).
iOS 7’s use of smaller and thinner fonts makes it possible to fit more controls in the Music app’s main screen. For example, the old Music app on an iPad displayed entries along the bottom of the screen for Store, Playlists, Songs, Artists, Albums, and More. (Tapping More brought up Shared, Genres, and Composers entries.) In iOS 7’s Music app on an iPad, you now spy Radio, Genius, Playlists, Artists, Songs, Albums, Genres, and More (the More screen shows Compilations, Composers, and Shared). And Apple has removed the Store button—there’s no need for it, since the Info screen now leads directly to the iTunes Store.
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