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I'm not understanding why Apple made the album art tiles bigger in iTunes 12.2, but then removed them from the landscape mode in iOS 8.4. It's as if the desktop dev team is making their app look more like the mobile platform while the mobile dev team is making their app look more like a nested Finder menu.

First they took away Coverflow and now they've taken away the Album Art tile collage. iTunes got better while the iOS player got worse, IMO.
 
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Dryden said:
I'm not understanding why Apple made the album art tiles bigger in iTunes 12.2, but then removed them from the landscape mode in iOS 8.4. It's as if the desktop dev team is making their app look more like the mobile platform while the mobile dev team is making their app look more like a nested Finder menu.

First they took away Coverflow and now they've taken away the Album Art tile collage. iTunes got better while the iOS player got worse, IMO.
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I think I mentioned this before, but I hated the coverflow / tile collage. It's one of the first things I disabled whenever I'd jailbreak. There were few things more frustrating than when I'd try to change my music while driving, only to find that I had to wait for it to shift back to portrait mode so I could navigate the app one-handed.

On a related note, the iCloud Music Library part of Apple Music is hot garbage. It's supposed to compete with Spotify, but it's unusable for anybody who cares in the slightest about the organization, metadata and album art of their music collection. I just wanted to be able to do the same thing I do in Spotify, but combine it into the app where the rest of my collection resides.

Here's the deal: They say the service puts your personal collection into iCloud, making it available on all of your devices. That is true in a sense. I activated my trial subscription on my Mac, which put my iTunes collection into iCloud - matching songs that are available in the store, and uploading anything that they don't have to my iCloud storage. I then tried to use this service with my phone. My library on my phone is completely synced with my laptop, down to every last file. One would think that for that reason iCloud Music Library would not need to do anything with my phone's library, because it should be the same as what was just added to the cloud from my Mac. WRONG. It basically re-did the entire library on my phone - using incorrect album art from the store and ignoring that a song came from one particular album and not another. It's the music library equivalent of taking a statement that's in English, translating it into five different languages, then back to English. It's supposed to be the same thing, but it no longer is anymore. I had to wipe all the music from my phone and re-sync.

This article from The Verge sums it up, and I was stupid to just dive in because it was a free trial without reading up on it first:

http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/1/8877129/apple-music-icloud-problems

All I had hoped for was to keep my personal music collection how it was while integrating the streaming portion of the service. It really shouldn't be that difficult for them to accomplish. It's a good thing I didn't cancel my Spotify subscription.
 
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My wife was noticing that attached photos appear in-line differently in Safari than they do in Chrome on mobile. This was even before upgrading to iOS 9.

I'm in the process of upgrading my phone right now. I can check it out myself later tonight, but I use Chrome primarily. I'm toying with the idea of switching to Safari as my default on all platforms though

@Clarity - don't know if you can shed any more light on this...
 
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jlb1705 said:
Doesn't seem to be.
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Is anything showing up full screen width in the standard style? Are the ads resizing properly? Do you see anything that could be pushing the screen out that far?

I'm still on iOS8 and all is normal. Ditto Android (via an emulator). Browser responsive is fine across all with reasonable user populations. Utterly perplexed by this. Have to think it's those media queries.
 
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