iTunes ♫ onscreen controller mock-up

March 11th, 2004
Categories: Interface, Music, OS X

iTunes Onscreen Controller and Album Browser (PDF, 82K)

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5 Responses to “iTunes ♫ onscreen controller mock-up”

  1. UBiK, on March 12th, 2004 at 7:43 AM Said:

    There are some applications (synergy among others) that do the same kind of thing. Several of them allow you to change the rating and show the artwork for the currently playing song.
    I agreee though that it would be nice if Apple implemented it directly in iTunes.

  2. Robb Beal, on March 12th, 2004 at 7:49 AM Said:

    Very nice! The UI would ideally have a thick solid border around it to compensate for the noise of the visualizer.

    Easy on the dingbats :-)

  3. Daniel J. Wilson, on March 12th, 2004 at 1:01 PM Said:

    I am quite a fan of the dingbats. :-) The Eject symbol in the mock-up is a dingbat, in fact. I couldn’t find a graphic, so I used the dingbat I remembered seeing in the character palette.

  4. Buzz Andersen, on March 16th, 2004 at 1:00 AM Said:

    Apple refers to those sorts of interfaces as bezels (the volume control, brightness, etc. are referred to as bezel services).

  5. Membranophonist’s Ramblings » Time for iTums, on October 19th, 2005 at 12:31 AM Said:

    [...] I mocked up an iPhoto-inspired bezel controller for iTunes over a year ago. Since that time, QuickTime 7 has been released with such a controller, but the iTunes team seems not to have gotten the memo. Having to leave and then re-enter the fullscreen visualization mode to browse the active playlist is disruptive. [...]

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