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Media
Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2012–2026), in 11 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Media, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 11 complaints
- Setup took significant time and HDMI passthrough was flaky, breaking after driver updates2026-10-13
- Timeline event editing is tedious and frustrating during long complex sessions2025-09-01
- Play/pause buttons combined into one toggle, so users can't be sure a track is paused2024-07-05
- Webm screencasts display as glitchy compressed diff frames, not normal playback2023-09-07
- Water and land colors are swapped, so readers take a while to work out what the map shows2020-10-14
- Entire directories with hundreds of files no longer expand into queue; only the folder name appears2019-03-29
- Sites are slow and laggy on mobile LTE connections2016-12-04
- Players force users into vendor apps that sync and index music instead of plain file copying2013-10-22
- Users must open separate apps to find content across different sources2013-06-04
- Users on phones or tablets cannot choose to see the full desktop site2013-04-04
- Media keys are hard to reach without getting bleach on them, and iTunes requires several steps2012-05-21