So, I’ve always been very oppose to Apples emulation of the OS X interface in their Windows version of iTunes. It’s poorly implemented, slows down iTunes, hogs system resources, and is just buggy. So rather than continue to complain, I’m doing something about it. I’ve started a new programming project I’m dubbing kTunes. Essentially, I’m attempting to clone the iTunes interface using entirely windows GUI elements, while keeping the core iTunes system under the hood. The end result will hopefully be a custom, Windows-friendly frontend to the iTunes backend which should provide quicker response time and a more unified system environment.
As an example, here are two screenshots. The first is Apple iTunes in Windows Vista upon just being launched (the black regions will clear up as I start playing music, but represents a MAJOR bug). The second image is an early version of kTunes. I’ll post more as I continue development.
1 Comment for iTunes GUI
shann | 7/25/2008 at 4:09 am
yo
something makes me feel like i introduced you to a lot of music…
nice looking ‘ktunes’. you look like you have more free time than i thought.
speaking of which, is this website a dynamic or static? i’ve been trying to figure out how to replicate the stuff that my grad student did for our lab webpage : westlab.rice.edu . think i probably won’t be able to at all, but still, there’s so much functionality in the login-required portions of the webpage it’s just plain awesome.