Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Music App Updates on the iOS 5

When Apple announced the iOS 5, the company pointed out the convenient feature of deleting songs or entire albums right on the mobile device. This feature is in contrast to the previous capabilities only available when in sync with iTunes on the PC or Mac. Apple was certainly proud of this simple feature that they had to hype it up during the announcement.

Deleting an entire album
Another useful feature which was less advertised is adjustable scrubbing. Scrubbing simply means the ability to search for a particular part in a song by dragging the small silver circle that determines the specific point in the song timeline. In the previous versions, scrubbing had a less precise control because fine-tuned searching was not available.

The iOS 5, on the other hand, features the ability to scrub along any part of the song with adjustable precision. If one scrubs along the song timeline, hi-speed scrubbing is enabled. Sliding the finger down from the timeline adjusts the scrubbing rate. Half-speed, quarter-speed or fine scrubbing are enabled as the finger is slid down further.

Deleting one song at a time
Quarter-speed scrubbing
Fine scrubbing
Hi-speed scrubbing
Half-speed scrubbing

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