I'm still waiting for a better integration with iphoto
They did a good job with the elimination of the repeating song during slideshow, but I want multiple selection of songs instead of selecting a playlist and have it play from the beginning to end.
iTunes as it stands is fantabulous. I don't see much they could do other than making it easier to share with other users on you computer. My wife and I would really like to share an iTunes database and rate the songs individually on our own accout. As it stands this is impossible (we can share but I don't think we can give each song its own rating). It could be snappier when using browse in particular. Anything else? I can't think of any....
Time for some constructive comments for this thread.
Re-orderable playlists.
Eject button in the source list ala Finder.
Those are the only two subtle changes I would want.
The real improvement I want is party/jukebox mode. It hides the entire iTunes window and goes to a graphical browser. You can browse by genre, artist, album, song but rather than the normal view it's got 2 or 3 album covers on each side of the screen. At the click of a button it changes to show the next set of albums using some cool Quartz enabled animation. People than select the songs that they want to hear and it gets queued up. Also an allowance system can be added so you could set it up so that during the course of the party $20 can be spent at iTMS for people to buy songs that you don't have, but they want to hear.
Everything and the kitchen sink == a bad idea and one that MS would come up with. I don't like the philosophy that just because one app CAN do everything, it should. I'm a big fan of the Apple way of doing things now: each app is specialized and works well with the others. There's no reason to integrate video into iTunes. What would the usability benefit be?
I'm in favor of hierarchical playlists and reordering them would be nice too. The ability to more easily manage Libraries that span multiple drives would be welcome. Profiles for playlists would be an extension of that (I've got a powerbook and a large external HD that's not always with me - a "road" profile means my library is only on my HD, etc). Other than that, I can't think of a single thing I'd like added to iTunes.
Oh, last thing is I would like better integration with the iPod. Currently iTunes can remember which playlists are on shuffle and which ones aren't, but the iPod only has a on/off switch for shuffle. If I'm on auto-sync, I would like the iPod to respect shuffle settings. Similarly, I would like iTunes to be able to show me the status of the iPod's battery. Add it to the display section, so when I click on that little button I see a representation how the charge is going.
I just want the next revision of iTunes to more closely resemble the design of OS X. For example, shifting the eject buttons from the lower right corner to the sidebar a la the Finder would show a more unified vision throughout the user experience. ShallowThroat, at this point it's not so much as adding new features, but refining iTunes into the best it could be.
why are people so hung up on video? if you wanna watch a movie, go grab the disc from your shelf and put it in your computer. if you want it on the road, get a laptop or portable dvd player. if apple comes out with a video ipod, people are gonna bitch b/c the battery life will suck. integrating itunes is stupid b/c iTUNES is for music--it's not iMEDIA.
I do lyric searches all the time to find a song. As long as you can get at least one sentence your chances of "googling" and finding the song is going to drastically improve.
There are actually some pretty simple AppleScripts that you can throw into iTunes to do just that! just do a search at apple.com or at macosxhints.com, you should be able to come up with all that and then some. My favourite script was one that automatically rates your music based on the number of times played, which i found to be quite useful.
Alright, I thought up something new, don't shoot me if you think it's wrong:
Better integration to the Finder. wait, wait, read that again. NOT total finder integration, but better abilities to hide/show it. I find that the only two window settings, the mini player is to small and inefficient, and the full player is to large and clumsy. i think i will whip up a sketch to show, but other than that, I like the ideas being posted. i hope apple is listening.
edit: okay, here is a general idea of what im talking about:
imagine that it's highly customizable, and you could have a search bar in there as well, and that you could either pull it out from under the menu bar, or have it pop up by clicking on a button in the center of the menu bar, or even on mouse rollover.
I do lyric searches all the time to find a song. As long as you can get at least one sentence your chances of "googling" and finding the song is going to drastically improve.
Agreed, I don't think Google has ever failed me when I am searching using a line from a song. I do it all the time. It might be nice to have lyric search integrated, but googling works great, so I don't see it as a big need.
lyric search on itms - i hear a song on the radio, remember one line search for it and whala never gonna happen, would be cool though
I think this should happen and it would not cost a lot to do.
The lyrics should be timed, so they can be shown in sync with the song. There should be an interface in iTunes that lets other software sync to the lyrics as well.
When someone would write a suitable "dynamic lyric display" plugin, and someone else made a sound filter that takes out human voice frequencies (my signal processing inclined neighbor says this is very easy) every iTMS song could be instantly used to sing karaoke.
My vote still goes for CD-TEXT support. It's like mp3 tags but for CDs.
The CD-TEXT standard has been in use for over a decade and all of my disc players support it. It doesn't even require the development of a user interface.
I'd like to see some effective buffering put into place so that ripped CDs with music that spans tracks don't have a bump in the sound as the tracks are switching. It's a small point, but annoying none the less.
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They did a good job with the elimination of the repeating song during slideshow, but I want multiple selection of songs instead of selecting a playlist and have it play from the beginning to end.
iTunes as it stands is fantabulous. I don't see much they could do other than making it easier to share with other users on you computer. My wife and I would really like to share an iTunes database and rate the songs individually on our own accout. As it stands this is impossible (we can share but I don't think we can give each song its own rating). It could be snappier when using browse in particular. Anything else? I can't think of any....
Re-orderable playlists.
Eject button in the source list ala Finder.
Those are the only two subtle changes I would want.
The real improvement I want is party/jukebox mode. It hides the entire iTunes window and goes to a graphical browser. You can browse by genre, artist, album, song but rather than the normal view it's got 2 or 3 album covers on each side of the screen. At the click of a button it changes to show the next set of albums using some cool Quartz enabled animation. People than select the songs that they want to hear and it gets queued up. Also an allowance system can be added so you could set it up so that during the course of the party $20 can be spent at iTMS for people to buy songs that you don't have, but they want to hear.
I'm in favor of hierarchical playlists and reordering them would be nice too. The ability to more easily manage Libraries that span multiple drives would be welcome. Profiles for playlists would be an extension of that (I've got a powerbook and a large external HD that's not always with me - a "road" profile means my library is only on my HD, etc). Other than that, I can't think of a single thing I'd like added to iTunes.
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Originally posted by HOM
I would like the iPod to respect shuffle settings.
i like that idea
Brad: thanks for letting me know
Originally posted by DMBand0026
Don't tell us! Tell Apple! A lot of you guys have great ideas, but let Apple know or they'll never happen.
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If all posts were like this, the Internet would be regarded as a reliable source for information.
Keep up the good work..
Originally posted by DMBand0026
Don't tell us! Tell Apple! A lot of you guys have great ideas, but let Apple know or they'll never happen.
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Believe you me, Apple is sick of getting my feedback. I must send 10 items a week.
Originally posted by HOM
Believe you me, Apple is sick of getting my feedback. I must send 10 items a week.
what, did they write you and tell you that?
Originally posted by k squared
I just want the next revision of iTunes to more closely resemble the design of OS X. For example, shifting the eject buttons from the lower right corner to the sidebar a la the Finder would show a more unified vision throughout the user experience. ShallowThroat, at this point it's not so much as adding new features, but refining iTunes into the best it could be.
best idea so far.....^
Originally posted by Kesh
Back to the original intent of the thread:
1) Revise the interface a little, so it fits in with the OS a little more.
2) Add 'sub-playlists', or folders you can stick playlists into
3) Perhaps custom fields in the Info window, stored locally rather than in the MP3's file data.
4) Slightly more robust Smart Playlist criteria
lyric search on itms - i hear a song on the radio, remember one line search for it and whala
Originally posted by a_greer
lyric search on itms - i hear a song on the radio, remember one line search for it and whala
I would absolutely love to see that.
Alright, I thought up something new, don't shoot me if you think it's wrong:
Better integration to the Finder. wait, wait, read that again. NOT total finder integration, but better abilities to hide/show it. I find that the only two window settings, the mini player is to small and inefficient, and the full player is to large and clumsy. i think i will whip up a sketch to show, but other than that, I like the ideas being posted.
edit: okay, here is a general idea of what im talking about:
imagine that it's highly customizable, and you could have a search bar in there as well, and that you could either pull it out from under the menu bar, or have it pop up by clicking on a button in the center of the menu bar, or even on mouse rollover.
i dunno, could be good.
Originally posted by hmurchison
I do lyric searches all the time to find a song. As long as you can get at least one sentence your chances of "googling" and finding the song is going to drastically improve.
Agreed, I don't think Google has ever failed me when I am searching using a line from a song. I do it all the time. It might be nice to have lyric search integrated, but googling works great, so I don't see it as a big need.
Originally posted by a_greer
lyric search on itms - i hear a song on the radio, remember one line search for it and whala
I think this should happen and it would not cost a lot to do.
The lyrics should be timed, so they can be shown in sync with the song. There should be an interface in iTunes that lets other software sync to the lyrics as well.
When someone would write a suitable "dynamic lyric display" plugin, and someone else made a sound filter that takes out human voice frequencies (my signal processing inclined neighbor says this is very easy) every iTMS song could be instantly used to sing karaoke.
The CD-TEXT standard has been in use for over a decade and all of my disc players support it. It doesn't even require the development of a user interface.
Just burn the damn mp3 tags into CD-TEXT already!