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What would you like to see added to iTunes?
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m.r.m. said:
yes you can do this, but there are two problems with this
1. the file size stays the same - and most of the songs you would do this to are rather long and have minutes upon minutes of silent space
2. you would need two copies of the song in your library to work the way the original poster (and i) would want it to. you would need one for the origninal song, that stops after that song is finished, and a second one for the "hidden track"
well...
There are 2 things i would like to see...
Something built in so that all the songs you have double one will be deleted, giving you the option which one ofcourse. i think there is already something like that but it does not satisfy me enough.
The second thing might be something that automaticly fills in the missing information from your song like album and artist if not filled in. it also has to import the artwork automaticaly. Again there is already something for the automatic album import but it sucks. its really useless as it gives you the same artwork for everything if it cannot find a song. the automatic information fill in though... that would be great!
There are 2 things i would like to see...
Something built in so that all the songs you have double one will be deleted, giving you the option which one ofcourse. i think there is already something like that but it does not satisfy me enough.
The second thing might be something that automaticly fills in the missing information from your song like album and artist if not filled in. it also has to import the artwork automaticaly. Again there is already something for the automatic album import but it sucks. its really useless as it gives you the same artwork for everything if it cannot find a song. the automatic information fill in though... that would be great!
wrldwzrd89 said:
CD TEXT is something most commonly found on portable and car CD players. The CD, when burned, has the album title, artist and song titles included in the TOC (or somewhere else, I'm not entirely sure). Then when playing the CD, the name of the song and the artist comes up on the display in your car. Very nifty indeed!
BEN
I would love to see alphabetical lists by artist and album not just artist or song, If i have 3 Guns and Roses albums I want them listed in album order of the year each album was released. The way it is now its either album or artist not both. Not sure if that makes sence.
transistor said:
What..?..So you want sing-a-long-an-iPod..?..Walking Karaoke?
No so sure that's what Apple want their iPods used for ?!
edesignuk said:To be able to re-download music that I have paid for on iTMS on one authorized computer, on antoher authorized computer, the fact that you can't SUCKS
Doesn't the Advanced / Check for Purchased Music feature do this? I'm pretty sure that at least, on the first computer, if you delete all the tracks, then this feature would do exactly that. So the second computer without the deleted tracks should be the same, no?
My vote: customized transition on a per song basis, a-la iMovie or Adobe Premiere. Also allow the custom start/stop times to be owned by a playlist instead of a song, so that you can cut an intro/out-tro from a playlist but keep it there when you listen to the album (this one's for every song P. Diddy's ever done.
). Oh, and finally make both work on the iPod too. I second ideas regarding the videos tho. Maybe make the downloadable video tied to the song? Also make it so that the viewable videos are searchable and tied to the songs. Right now the LIFO of the videos section in iTMS has all the organization of a JCPenney store rack.
Allowing me to create my own columns. This coupled with more depth in organizing the library. I can organize by Album within artists. I'd then like to be able to put the albums in chronological order rather than alphabetical. For those artists who put out more than one album per year, this could become complex. But hey, Apple can figure that out. Right?
I think this just looks to see if you have music that you purchased, but have not downloaded yet. It is a useful feature for people on dial-up so you can buy now and download all night. They should expand that feature though to allow you to redownload purchased music.mkrishnan said:
1. Automatic de-authorisation of computers.
If a computer dosen't access the internet within three months, it will be deauthorised. This is so, if a computer completely conks it, and is still authorised, you don't loose the ability to play music, on one less computers. Does this make sense?
2. Native WMA (Unprotected and Protected) and Vorbis (OGG) support.
This is self-explanatory. And no, I don't want conversionn to AAC, I want native playback.
3.The ability to download multiple music libraries to one iPod.
So I can download my Brother's iTunes library and my iTunes library to one iPod, so when we go on car trips, we both have access to our music/playlists, in the car (Not every family can afford multiple iPods. We don't even have an iPod yet. I'd prefer an iRiver, but I would also like to get something my whole family can use.
4. Shared libraries on one computer.
Me and my brother both import all our music to one folder, and use that as our library, so we have the same collection of music. If he imports a CD, I have to select add music to library to get it to show up. it would be nice if when he imports a CD, it shows up in my library. However, I still want us to each have our own playlists, and ratings, etc...
5. Import from MP3-CDs.
I know you can just copy the MP3s over, but it would be even better if you could just stick an MP3-CD in, and auto-copy the files off it, and into thier proper locations in the library folder structure.
6. Seperate Stop, Previous Track, and Next Track buttons.
When I am working of my library (creating playlists, sorting music) and I need to pause my music; I have to stop what I'm doing, go to the playlists I'm listening to, and hit pause. It would be nice if I could pause from any part of the library, if you know what I mean (And I know you can open the playlist in anouther window, but I don't want to clutter everything up with additional windows).
7. Have the visualiser in the Source coloum on the left.
This is so it can be doubble clicked, and opened in a seperate window, so it can be placed onto anouther monitor.
8. Output Audio to a seperate sound device.
I know I could just buy an AirPort Express, but sometimes, I may want to play music, that everyone in the room can hear, through a sepearte set of speakers, while all other sounds from other apps goes through the default sound device, and into my headphones, so no one else can hear my other apps. Programs like Winamp, Windows Media Player, and Quicktime can do this, so why not iTunes? (I think this makes sense)
9. Auto-conversion to MP3, when burning an MP3 CD.
I have no idea why this is not included, but if you have all your music in AAC, or Apple Lossless, you have to convert it all manualy to MP3 when you burn it. Why can't it be automatic?
10. Songs in the iTMS should be at least 256kbs AAC, instead of 128kbs AAC.
128kbs? Thats crap! Even if here in Australia we did have the iTunes Music Store, I'm not paying for music that low in quality!
And Finally, I have a suggestion for a new product:
iTheatre would be like iTunes, but for video files! It would be exactly the same, as iTunes in every way, with the exception of a video window, to play back video in. The Video window should also be detatchable from the main window, so it can be placed on a seperate monitor.
There could even be an iTheatre Video Store, where you can buy episodes of TV shows, etc...
It could also create a path for the possible AirPort Express with AirTheatre! That could be in addition to the AirPort Express with AirTunes. The AirTheatre unit, would be the same as the AirTunes unit, but without the audio port, and with a scart connector.
Well, I'm finished. I hope you all like my ideas.
If a computer dosen't access the internet within three months, it will be deauthorised. This is so, if a computer completely conks it, and is still authorised, you don't loose the ability to play music, on one less computers. Does this make sense?
2. Native WMA (Unprotected and Protected) and Vorbis (OGG) support.
This is self-explanatory. And no, I don't want conversionn to AAC, I want native playback.
3.The ability to download multiple music libraries to one iPod.
So I can download my Brother's iTunes library and my iTunes library to one iPod, so when we go on car trips, we both have access to our music/playlists, in the car (Not every family can afford multiple iPods. We don't even have an iPod yet. I'd prefer an iRiver, but I would also like to get something my whole family can use.
4. Shared libraries on one computer.
Me and my brother both import all our music to one folder, and use that as our library, so we have the same collection of music. If he imports a CD, I have to select add music to library to get it to show up. it would be nice if when he imports a CD, it shows up in my library. However, I still want us to each have our own playlists, and ratings, etc...
5. Import from MP3-CDs.
I know you can just copy the MP3s over, but it would be even better if you could just stick an MP3-CD in, and auto-copy the files off it, and into thier proper locations in the library folder structure.
6. Seperate Stop, Previous Track, and Next Track buttons.
When I am working of my library (creating playlists, sorting music) and I need to pause my music; I have to stop what I'm doing, go to the playlists I'm listening to, and hit pause. It would be nice if I could pause from any part of the library, if you know what I mean (And I know you can open the playlist in anouther window, but I don't want to clutter everything up with additional windows).
7. Have the visualiser in the Source coloum on the left.
This is so it can be doubble clicked, and opened in a seperate window, so it can be placed onto anouther monitor.
8. Output Audio to a seperate sound device.
I know I could just buy an AirPort Express, but sometimes, I may want to play music, that everyone in the room can hear, through a sepearte set of speakers, while all other sounds from other apps goes through the default sound device, and into my headphones, so no one else can hear my other apps. Programs like Winamp, Windows Media Player, and Quicktime can do this, so why not iTunes? (I think this makes sense)
9. Auto-conversion to MP3, when burning an MP3 CD.
I have no idea why this is not included, but if you have all your music in AAC, or Apple Lossless, you have to convert it all manualy to MP3 when you burn it. Why can't it be automatic?
10. Songs in the iTMS should be at least 256kbs AAC, instead of 128kbs AAC.
128kbs? Thats crap! Even if here in Australia we did have the iTunes Music Store, I'm not paying for music that low in quality!
And Finally, I have a suggestion for a new product:
iTheatre
iTheatre would be like iTunes, but for video files! It would be exactly the same, as iTunes in every way, with the exception of a video window, to play back video in. The Video window should also be detatchable from the main window, so it can be placed on a seperate monitor.
There could even be an iTheatre Video Store, where you can buy episodes of TV shows, etc...
It could also create a path for the possible AirPort Express with AirTheatre! That could be in addition to the AirPort Express with AirTunes. The AirTheatre unit, would be the same as the AirTunes unit, but without the audio port, and with a scart connector.
Well, I'm finished. I hope you all like my ideas.
1. Good idea. I want to see this too.Jalexster said:
2a. Not going to happen. EVER.
2b. This is plausible, and in fact requires only an OGG plugin for QuickTime.
3. Unlikely - Apple doesn't intend for iTunes to be used in this way.
4. Same as #3.
5. That would be a nice feature, and fairly easy to implement, I'd imagine.
6. Huh? You can ALWAYS pause a song that's playing or change tracks, no matter what view of your library is selected.
7. Agreed there.
8. QuickTime is capable of that? I was not aware of that feature. Since iTunes uses QT anyway, it would be easy to add.
9. Another good idea. Anything that makes the user's experience easier and more seamless is a good thing - this is definitely one of those things.
10. Nope, not going to happen. The music labels will make sure of that.
iTheater: Will only happen when 90% or more of all internet users are on broadband, so don't expect this for a while.
<EDIT>I found an Ogg Vorbis plugin for QuickTime here.</EDIT>
Audio DVD
I would like to be able to burn audio dvd's - i.e., dvd's that play about 8 cd's worth of music on any home dvd player (I believe that this feature is presently available with Roxio's Jam).
I would like to be able to burn audio dvd's - i.e., dvd's that play about 8 cd's worth of music on any home dvd player (I believe that this feature is presently available with Roxio's Jam).
More video. I would like to see more music videos added to the iTunes Store catalog with the option to buy and download higher (dvd burnable) quality videos....paying for them of course.
wrldwzrd89 said:
You can just create multiple users on the same computer and fast-user-switch it. This has the advantage of getting his own iPhoto lib as well.
robbieduncan said:
I would like this too, some tracks have talking or parts of another song on it (like on a live album) and it would be nice to be able to split/edit tracks.
stoid said:
This is frickin' brilliant. I've been worried about just this happening with my 30GB iPod and 40GB iBook. I'm not there yet, but the day will come when I run out of storage. This is a great concept for managing it all. And it seems like you could do it programatically...I dunno...combine most recent additions with top rated with most played.... SOmething like that so it would automatically manage with songs go on the external and which go on the main drive....
Duplicates
I dont know if this is already possible but there should be a way to identify songs that appear multiple times in a playlist or in the library without searching or going through your entire library. I think this feature used to be available on winamp.
I dont know if this is already possible but there should be a way to identify songs that appear multiple times in a playlist or in the library without searching or going through your entire library. I think this feature used to be available on winamp.
jesuscandle said:
I think you can already do this now!
You have to just make iTunes not try and move all the songs to it's own location. It'll just end up referencing them in their original location by full path. If the drive is there, you're golden. If it's not, you'll probably have a bunch of exclamation points all over and iTunes will just skip past them.
Probably not ideal, huh?
You could even use the Group field to mark which are local and which are on the external, and build playlists around that.
If you want to edit the length of a song, click the song go command i (or option on windose) click options and there are fields for start and stop playback.
If you want to know what playlists a song is in, right click the song, (or control click for the single button mousers) and if the song appears in a playlist there will be a field called "playlists" and you go to it and it opens a new column and shows every playlist the song is in.
The thing I want added to iTunes, is a convert and replace option.
I recently went through all the music on my computer and noticed that I had 600 songs converted at 192kbps or above, and almost 2000 convterted at 160 kbps (all mp3 files) I decided that I wanted to go to aac for my whole library, and have created many smart playlists to help me keep track of everything, but when you convert a song, you ahve to manually put it in every playlist it old one was in if you are converting to delete the original.
ALSO say you have listened to a song 100 times, and you convert it. Well the playcount is at 0, this makes sense, but if you want to replace you entire library with a different format and trash the old songs, it takes a LOT of time to sort through everything.
So a option in importing songs could be: convert and replace
when you select this, you convert a song, the old one is automatically (i'm picturing how steve jobs says automatically, otomatically ) deleted from itunes and your itunes folder, and the playcount, and playlist locations of your new songs are identical as the old one.
Oh yeah I like the multiple libraries on one iPod, but I doubt Apple would want that, they would just be like,
buy another iPod
If you want to know what playlists a song is in, right click the song, (or control click for the single button mousers) and if the song appears in a playlist there will be a field called "playlists" and you go to it and it opens a new column and shows every playlist the song is in.
The thing I want added to iTunes, is a convert and replace option.
I recently went through all the music on my computer and noticed that I had 600 songs converted at 192kbps or above, and almost 2000 convterted at 160 kbps (all mp3 files) I decided that I wanted to go to aac for my whole library, and have created many smart playlists to help me keep track of everything, but when you convert a song, you ahve to manually put it in every playlist it old one was in if you are converting to delete the original.
ALSO say you have listened to a song 100 times, and you convert it. Well the playcount is at 0, this makes sense, but if you want to replace you entire library with a different format and trash the old songs, it takes a LOT of time to sort through everything.
So a option in importing songs could be: convert and replace
when you select this, you convert a song, the old one is automatically (i'm picturing how steve jobs says automatically, otomatically
) deleted from itunes and your itunes folder, and the playcount, and playlist locations of your new songs are identical as the old one.Oh yeah I like the multiple libraries on one iPod, but I doubt Apple would want that, they would just be like,
buy another iPod
I would LOVE a convert and replace feature, since I do quite a bit of converting with iTunes for Windows...Sharewaredemon said:If you want to edit the length of a song, click the song go command i (or option on windose) click options and there are fields for start and stop playback.
If you want to know what playlists a song is in, right click the song, (or control click for the single button mousers) and if the song appears in a playlist there will be a field called "playlists" and you go to it and it opens a new column and shows every playlist the song is in.
The thing I want added to iTunes, is a convert and replace option.
I recently went through all the music on my computer and noticed that I had 600 songs converted at 192kbps or above, and almost 2000 convterted at 160 kbps (all mp3 files) I decided that I wanted to go to aac for my whole library, and have created many smart playlists to help me keep track of everything, but when you convert a song, you ahve to manually put it in every playlist it old one was in if you are converting to delete the original.
ALSO say you have listened to a song 100 times, and you convert it. Well the playcount is at 0, this makes sense, but if you want to replace you entire library with a different format and trash the old songs, it takes a LOT of time to sort through everything.
So a option in importing songs could be: convert and replace
when you select this, you convert a song, the old one is automatically (i'm picturing how steve jobs says automatically, otomatically
Oh yeah I like the multiple libraries on one iPod, but I doubt Apple would want that, they would just be like,
buy another iPod
Now, I don't know if you can already do this, seeing as I don't spend too much time playing around with iTunes, I just listen to music. But, is there a way (a quick, easy, no playlist way) to choose a song to be played next (while another song is currently playing)? I don't know how to explain this correctly, so here is a scenario.
Say I am just looking at my library. I double click on "Slow Motion" by Juvenile. It is playing, because iTunes just works (recent switcher, mind you). Halfway through the song, I find a song by Tom Petty that I want to play. Can I right click (ctrl click) or something to that effect on the Tom Petty song so it will play proceeding the finish of the Juvenile song??
If iTunes cannot do this, I'd love to see it implemented.
Say I am just looking at my library. I double click on "Slow Motion" by Juvenile. It is playing, because iTunes just works (recent switcher, mind you). Halfway through the song, I find a song by Tom Petty that I want to play. Can I right click (ctrl click) or something to that effect on the Tom Petty song so it will play proceeding the finish of the Juvenile song??
If iTunes cannot do this, I'd love to see it implemented.
I download Audible books. I'd like an ability to burn certain disks of the book instead of the whole thing at once. Say I have an 8-hour Audible book, and it burns onto, say, 7 CD's. Suppose the burn goes bad on one of them, or my kid ejects the 5th one mid-burn, or one gets scratched later. As of now, I have to burn it all again or play games with the start/end times. I'd like to just say burn disks 1-3, or disk 5, or all of them - like printing.