iTunes 5
What should they add?
starters:
?choice of Better and Best .MP4 compression like Export...in QuickTime Pro has
?FLAC playback. No quality loss, and half the size! Way better than even .SITX
?New visualizer? Or why don't they just include WhiteCap and G-Force
?Support for SESSIONS (Finder burning should support them too)
?more radio stations?
?way to rip streaming radio a la RadioLover? Or are there legal issues? I need my MusicOne in Electronica!
?Option to omit doubles in the Library view
?Less CPU usage (though someone said it uses less in Panther anyway)
?Red note for icon
What else can they add to this juggernaut?
starters:
?choice of Better and Best .MP4 compression like Export...in QuickTime Pro has
?FLAC playback. No quality loss, and half the size! Way better than even .SITX
?New visualizer? Or why don't they just include WhiteCap and G-Force
?Support for SESSIONS (Finder burning should support them too)
?more radio stations?
?way to rip streaming radio a la RadioLover? Or are there legal issues? I need my MusicOne in Electronica!
?Option to omit doubles in the Library view
?Less CPU usage (though someone said it uses less in Panther anyway)
?Red note for icon
What else can they add to this juggernaut?
Comments
pitch control for mixing
karaoke!
iTMS wishlists, some sort of download "allowance" for kids under parents' accounts, song/album rankings by customers
Print UI for downloaded album art and high-quality complete album art, kept separate from track tags
I've recently been ripping a number of my old CDs, and as it stands now, I have to seek out all of the inter-track gaps on some albums and make sure I use the "join" function to connect all of the flow-through tracks to one another.
The result is, in order to avoid popping and clicking between tracks, I have to take an album like "Dark Side of the Moon" and turn all nine tracks into just TWO tracks.
It must suck if you buy the album "Dark Side of the Moon" from iTMS, because it's already broken into nine tracks on the store.
I think the problem has to do with the way most audio compression routines work, which break audio signals down into short "frames" of some fixed duration, and when you rip a track the compressed output gets padded with short silences at the beginning and end of the track to fill out complete frames.
Still, there must be some way to spot and remove this padding, because I can burn a CD from continuous-flow compressed audio tracks using Toast, and the pops and clicks don't happen.
Besides updating iTunes for better playback and CD burning to solve this problem, the iPod would need to be updated too -- it has the same problem with these kinds of tracks.
Originally posted by Aquatic
?choice of Better and Best .MP4 compression like Export...in QuickTime Pro has
It uses "better" (not the fastest) now. No need to use "best" as it's for 24bit material (DVD). Hence no difference between "better" and "best" for 16bit (Audio CD) material.
I think the problem has to do with the way most audio compression routines work, which break audio signals down into short "frames" of some fixed duration, and when you rip a track the compressed output gets padded with short silences at the beginning and end of the track to fill out complete frames
I just finished a CS project on mp3 decoding (using altivec instructions) and am quite familiar with the subject. I found this page - it may be of some help
http://lame.sourceforge.net/tech-FAQ.txt
One "feature" I wouldn't miss is iTunes 4.01 randomly skipping, leaving 10 second gaps in music. Ander's that's smokeworthy. l.
karaoke!
actually, this should be a very easy thing to impliment. iTunes came from apple buying soundjam, right? soundjam had a karaoke mode that would filter out vocals and play only the music. it wasnt perfect, but it was really cool.
BTW, the CD is 3 Door's Down's "Away from the Sun"
Originally posted by CubeDude
I know it would only apply to a small base of users, but they should add the option to edit out ~30 seconds of music. I bought this CD and the last track plays nothing for the first 30 seconds. The song also doesn't appear on the song list that came with the CD. I would love to take out this dead space.
BTW, the CD is 3 Door's Down's "Away from the Sun"
They do have this option, but it is limited. 'Get Info' on the song, and go to the 'Options' tab. Now, mess with the 'Start Time' until the dead space goes away. BUT: this, like all other iTunes effects, does not carry over into CD burning. This is their biggest flaw... how hard would it be to simply burn a CD with overlapping tracks? Or with the music file as it is designated to play?
As for my requests, here's a list:
Originally posted by CubeDude
I know it would only apply to a small base of users, but they should add the option to edit out ~30 seconds of music. I bought this CD and the last track plays nothing for the first 30 seconds. The song also doesn't appear on the song list that came with the CD. I would love to take out this dead space.
you can do this. Get Info on the track and set the starting point from 00:00:00 to 00:00:30.
Originally posted by CubeDude
I bought this CD and the last track plays nothing for the first 30 seconds.
If you've got the original CD you can use this:
http://www.malcolmadams.com/itunes/s...pymp3startstop
It will only rip a user selected portion of the track.
Originally posted by bauman
[*]"Attach" two songs together, so they are always played back to back, even in a shuffle-by-song mode
You can do this at the time when you rip from the original CD.
Originally posted by jamm
I just finished a CS project on mp3 decoding (using altivec instructions) and am quite familiar with the subject. I found this page - it may be of some help
http://lame.sourceforge.net/tech-FAQ.txt
Hmmm. This material looks very familiar.
What would be nice is if the MP3 and AAC formats included markers for where the actual signal, less any padding, begins and ends.
Since no such markers exist as far as I know, I'm left wonder how Toast gets the job done. By assuming that any silence/near silence at the beginning or end of a track is padding? Does Toast then remove this data from the burned data always, or only under special circumstances, like from between two concurrent tracks with strong signal before and after the apparent padding?
Originally posted by blue2kdave
I'd like a built in way to print CD labels. Just pick a playlist and have it automatically fill out a CD template. Of course there would be easy ways to customize the look of the label. This could be a separate app, but should integrate well.
Good one!
iTunes introduced a metadata-based file management system... yet throws all that info away when burning to CD.
It makes no sense.
Why no CD-TEXT?
I enjoy listening to co-workers' music libraries over Rendezvous, but it would be nice to have shuffle play randomly select tracks from all available libraries, including my own.
My vote: CD-TEXT
Seconded. I bet it'll show up.