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Any ideas for iTunes 10?

1) Give the "Backup to Disc" feature the capability to exclude audiobooks, podcasts, and selected music etc from the backup process. I download these temporarily and don't want to put them on my backup discs.
2) Prevent podcasts and audiobooks from appearing in the Songs list on my iPod. I can check the "skip" box in iTunes, but seeing them in that is annoys me.
3) List Audiobooks in the main menu on the iPod
 
Make it work in Windows.... watching my purchased movies and shows on my Windows systems sucks. Video tearing galore across all systems.

Other than that, make it smooth. I don't like waiting when genius wants to sync, or iPod wants to sync, or libraries want to sync, or.... you get it. Way too often I am waiting for iTunes to finish something before I can hit play on my song.
 
I reckon it'll be called iTunes X and get a QuickTime-X style UI revamp (i.e. totally unlike it is now).

It needs it. Badly.

Other than that:
- Speed
- Embed Album Art
- Streaming to iPhone/iPad

That's it.
 
None of these will happen for various reasons, (copyright, etc) but:

- Ability to bulk download and tag songs with lyrics/full credits etc
- Ability to download artwork for albums not in the iTunes store
- More 'DJ' style functionality: (live crossfading/looping etc)
- Ability to burn 'mixtapes' with custom crossfades/transitions between songs
- Greater support for different file formats (eg FLAC) and conversion between formats)

The big thing I want, though, is a much more advanced version of iTunes for iPhone. I'd love to be able to see my full library (not just songs synced with the iPhone) and be able to edit track details, view playcounts, and all those sorts of things on the go.
 
For the love of Pete please give us better centralized management. Home Sharing is not what people want.

Get rid of the Carbon cruft. Thread it properly so that when it's doing a backup of my database I can do other things.

Make the backup process faster.

Make dealing with different iPod/iPhone/iPad better. Right now it'll just indiscriminately put downloaded apps onto the next sync'd device. This ends up putting apps on my iPhone that are intended for my 7 yr old son. Not good.

Integrate Lala into a Cloud version for purchased tracks so I can save gigabytes of data on my iPhone/iPad.

Introduce Music Center ...the end all be all of social music networking. Give Facebook the finger.

Make the sidebar more configurable.

Videos need their own section. I don't want them co-mingling with my music.

Please give me a better duplication finder.

Wireless syncing please
 
I have an external hard drive packed with itunes purchased TV shows and movies (and 'backups' of my dvd collection!).

It is a real pain adding new Movies and TV show episodes to my iTunes, then deleting the file and putting it on my hdd then telling itunes where to look for it. It's very tedious.

So, I would like the option to tell iTunes a separate folder location for my movies and TV shows.

Apple is clearly keen for everyone to have their TV shows and movies on accessed through their computers, but if you have a laptop like me, the computer will never be able to store it all. This also includes some desktops that just don't have the capacity.

I have 594GB of movies and TV shows on my HDD.
 
Unless there is already a way to do this, but I will explain what I would like:

With the album artwork, I have the single artwork for any songs in the album that were singles and album artwork for the rest of the tracks. Problem is, if the first song on the album was a single, iTunes makes this the album artwork for the whole album. I would like more control on what each song's artwork is and for the whole album.
 
TSE said:
Built in Youtube functionality where you can import videos seamlessly onto your iPod/iPhone/iPad???

I really don't know... one thing about iTunes is that it is quite bloated nowadays with so many new features, especially on the Windows side. They should focus more on slimming it down and getting rid of the waste, then adding more features.
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this times a million.
 
with Quicktime X apple really slimmed the app down, removed less used features and made it look great

they will be wise to do this with iTunes X
 
Things I want I can recall now:

- DVD-Audio and multichannel support
- Fix the track sorting issue.
- Smarter cover art finder
- Command to remove embedded artwork from within iTunes
- Ability to download more than 3 podcast episodes concurrently
- Ability to specify the parameters of the iPod conversion
- Ability to specify that a certain track should not be converted for iPod
- Ability to store more than 1 version of each track, instead of converting every time to iPod
- A 'character' column for operas, musicals and soundtracks.
- Arbitrary number of genius mixes with seeding editor.
 
Barbie said:
with Quicktime X apple really slimmed the app down, removed less used features and made it look great

they will be wise to do this with iTunes X
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Nah they wouldn't. There's loads more iTunes users than there is Quicktime users, there'd be uproar if they did that with iTunes.

I personally would like to see it happen though! :D
 
tombarnes said:
I have an external hard drive packed with itunes purchased TV shows and movies (and 'backups' of my dvd collection!).

It is a real pain adding new Movies and TV show episodes to my iTunes, then deleting the file and putting it on my hdd then telling itunes where to look for it. It's very tedious.

So, I would like the option to tell iTunes a separate folder location for my movies and TV shows.

Apple is clearly keen for everyone to have their TV shows and movies on accessed through their computers, but if you have a laptop like me, the computer will never be able to store it all. This also includes some desktops that just don't have the capacity.

I have 594GB of movies and TV shows on my HDD.
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This

I'd also like to see better support for finding and removing duplicates (the path listing would be great).
Ability to change downsampling options for syncing to mobile devices. I'd like to be able to downsample ALAC songs to 256 and leave everything else as it is.
 
I have the classic iPod because it stores the most. I use it only for music, nothing else.

Wish list: Make it easier to locate music. More Storage. More Metadata. Stop Genius from telling me what I want to buy - Genius does not understand jazz at all.

Remove elements of iTunes that does not apply to me. I don't need 9/10ths of the crap packed into this application.

A USB port. Oooh, is this a bad word?

A mirror lock-up button would be nice too, no wait that's on my camera wish list.
 
I only have one wish for the next version of iTunes, and it's the same wish I've had for the past several versions: podcast synching across multiple computers.
 
My Ideas?

I think right below the iTunes store there should be a torrent store or something that links to thepiratebay (or other) and gives you all of your itunes for free...

You asked what I wanted... (of course we wouldn't use it for materials that have a copyright...)

That's about as likely to happen as iTunes going Black!

-I would like to see (realistically) a 64-bit cocoa rewrite (because it sounds cool) and have a faster iTunes.
-An easier way to manage HUGE iTunes libraries and share them (besides Home Sharing) within the house.
-Move stuff into the cloud so I can watch my movies buffer from my iPhone everywhere I go and slow down AT&Ts network EVEN MORE!
-Put blu-ray drives into our macs and allow us to rip blu-ray's and DVDs directly into iTunes because you know we are all doing it using Handbrake anyways, and throw in some cover are, meta-tagging, and cnid retrieval so we don't have to pay money to iTunes for discs we already have.
-maybe a whole iTunes server to sit on our home networks and a new and improved appletv that doesn't suck:rolleyes:

first post by the way:)
 
Cocoa and 64 bit. Thats a must for me. if it doesn't have at least that I will wonder what Apple is smoking.

A new UI or skin is optional for me. But it MUST be 64 bit and in Cocoa.
 
One thing I've been thinking about lately that would be nice is a way to add a layer of metadata onto tracks which would allow a single file to 'live' in multiple albums, for example 'Track A' by Artist 1 appears both on album X and then on a Greatest Hits album, and then also on a 'Hits of the Year' type album. It would be cool if there were a way to allow the one file to exist in place on all three, with its associated cover art, track and disc number.
 
zorro23 said:
- Option for crossfade play on next song click
- Built in audio volume normalizer plug-in (Apple should buy old plug-in called "Volume Logic" and make it part of iTunes)
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LOL, both of these are already on itunes, to normalize volume turn sound check on
 
-Spin syncing off into a separate app. Device syncing began simply to put music on an iPod. Now it puts music, videos, photos, books, calendars, contacts, notes, Safari bookmarks, email accounts and software onto iPods, iPhones, iPads, and Apple TVs. It is simply far too much crap to do built in now. This also solves all possible issues with iTunes during sync. For example, the "updating iPhone OS" dialogue is modal. Understandable, and not THAT big of a deal in a dedicated syncing app. In an app that is also my music player? Unacceptable. I should be able to browse my library while my iPod Touch updates. And the new "Apple Device Sync" should still stay responsive while waiting on my iPod during a regular sync. I'd also like the ability to modify things like which playlists sync without having to have the iPod plugged in.

-Native UI in Windows, like Safari has. Probably the single best thing they did for Safari 4.

-Home sharing should auto-sync imports other than purchases.

-Who said get rid of visualizers? They are good clean fun for some of us. (Did you know you can make your own in Quartz Composer?)

-Do multiple tracks simultaneously on separate threads when transcoding. There are many reasons why XLD is better for doing audio conversions, but this shouldn't be one of them.

-Cocoa rewrite. Jobs shouldn't be allowed to rip on Adobe for this one when iTunes (and FCP) hasn't gone through it. (Yes, I did email him about it. No, he didn't reply)

-64bit, just so we can all tell the Cocoa rewrite is done.

-Ability to choose which display videos play back on.
 
nuckinfutz said:
Why would 64-bit matter for iTunes? It's not crunching heavy numbers or required.
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But iTunes can be a huge database, which can be helped by 64-bit. True, only edge users have entered that territory in iTunes, but it will be more and more common for people to have iTunes libraries in the range of a terabyte or more.
 
peteullo said:
Maybe even some DVD support. It would be nice to be able to rip DVD's just like CD's onto the hard drive.
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I'll go one further. Rip DVDs, including the menus and special features, as an iTunes Extras file. If not this, at least complete DVD image support.

I like having the extra stuff with my movies. I want this in my iTunes library so I can pack up my physical DVDs for good.
 
ReggaeFire said:
But iTunes can be a huge database, which can be helped by 64-bit. True, only edge users have entered that territory in iTunes, but it will be more and more common for people to have iTunes libraries in the range of a terabyte or more.
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But the terabyte library is not loaded into RAM. Just the relatively small iTunes database.
 
May help you

tombarnes said:
I have an external hard drive packed with itunes purchased TV shows and movies (and 'backups' of my dvd collection!).

It is a real pain adding new Movies and TV show episodes to my iTunes, then deleting the file and putting it on my hdd then telling itunes where to look for it. It's very tedious.
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This may be of some use to you if you didn't already know it. When you add movies/ tv shows to itunes, if you add them by holding down alt, and then dragging the file to the itunes dock icon, itunes will essentially reference the file to where it is kept. So it will appear in itunes as if it was stored in the itunes folder, however it is not actually copied over and will stay on your external. Apologies if I have misunderstood what you were attempting to do.
 
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