Umm. Well it may be useful occasionally. But is just a bit of an add-on. More like a page two-er?
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Apple Patents: Tailoring Music Playback and Dynamically Prolonging Battery Life on iPods and iPhones
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Perhaps borrow the concept of a DVD "chapter skip" and put a virtual one in, allowing you to directly skip those first 22 seconds by pressing one skip button instead of dragging or scrubbing.
Or don't try to guess automatically, but offer tools (like a thumbs up/thumbs down button or use the existing ratings system) so I can control it. For example if I have an album but always skip over one particular song, I could rate it really low or set another flag to auto-skip it when I play the album. I would still have the choice of navigating to that song directly if I ever do want to hear it.
I wonder why it took apple so long to do this. Microsoft has had something like this since WMP11. It you the user choose not to rate the song it would start rating them for you based on play count, how often it is played and how long it has been in your library and a long other list of things so not to give favoritism to older songs. WHen you told the sysytem to shuffle you could tell it to base it on on that information so it played the songs you liked more more often.
Since I do not really use WMP11 for music I do not have first hand experiences with it but from what I read on it, it is pretty damn good.
All I have to say is about damn time.
Since I do not really use WMP11 for music I do not have first hand experiences with it but from what I read on it, it is pretty damn good.
All I have to say is about damn time.
I'm with you two. BUT they are good options, especially the patent to "actively determine if there is enough battery life to play the selected video".
However, If the patents relating to tailoring music playback are implemented, I would want an option to turn them off. My mood influences how and what I listen to. Once my iPhone can scene my mood, then I would use these features haha
Having non uniform titles makes for an ugly UI
Maybe instead some kind of like... tension in the scrolling when something it thinks you want is on screen.
Like, for every item it thinks you'd want to pick out, it decreases the scrolling speed by 5%. End up with 10+ on the screen at once and you'll definitely notice.
As for the video playback battery warning... I'd like it if they took that a little bit further and instead would from the very start tell me: "Hey, your battery is at this right now. If you play this video, it'll be down around here."
And then if they could do that with applications, like, they could say "Historically, you run this application for 20 minutes at a time and drain 5% of your battery. You've only got 20% left. Are you sure you want to use it?"
Of course, you'd have it set up to only warn you of stuff like that when you're down to 20% and it'll use at least a quarter of what's left.
Maybe instead some kind of like... tension in the scrolling when something it thinks you want is on screen.
Like, for every item it thinks you'd want to pick out, it decreases the scrolling speed by 5%. End up with 10+ on the screen at once and you'll definitely notice.
As for the video playback battery warning... I'd like it if they took that a little bit further and instead would from the very start tell me: "Hey, your battery is at this right now. If you play this video, it'll be down around here."
And then if they could do that with applications, like, they could say "Historically, you run this application for 20 minutes at a time and drain 5% of your battery. You've only got 20% left. Are you sure you want to use it?"
Of course, you'd have it set up to only warn you of stuff like that when you're down to 20% and it'll use at least a quarter of what's left.
ive got a better idea...
instead of that...just use all of these criteria and work them into the shuffle mode...if ive skipped a song 8 bazillion times put it at the bottom of the list...if i've listened to a song all the way through then bring it up...shuffle is me saying "ok take over" just use this technology to make shuffle better ya dummies.
only let this patent work in shuffle mode...if i allways skip the first 20 seconds of a song over and over...ONLY skip those those 20 seconds of the song for me... if im in shuffle mode
also have a huge button somewhere in preferences that will delete all the criteria its using to shuffle...or hold down the shuffle icon and have it "ding" at you
and i really really really REALLY want to be able to press and hold a song on my iphone and have it go to my "on the go" playlist... because right now on the iphone..."on the go" can be translated as "goin out of my way to sort through all my songs and adding a song i thought id like but then feeling like because i went through all of that trouble i should probably add more to it and then end up with a list i didn't want in the first place...what was the song i wanted again?" id like it to go back to "on the go" please stick with what you did right..."on the go" on the classic ipods was heaven.
instead of that...just use all of these criteria and work them into the shuffle mode...if ive skipped a song 8 bazillion times put it at the bottom of the list...if i've listened to a song all the way through then bring it up...shuffle is me saying "ok take over" just use this technology to make shuffle better ya dummies.
only let this patent work in shuffle mode...if i allways skip the first 20 seconds of a song over and over...ONLY skip those those 20 seconds of the song for me... if im in shuffle mode
also have a huge button somewhere in preferences that will delete all the criteria its using to shuffle...or hold down the shuffle icon and have it "ding" at you
and i really really really REALLY want to be able to press and hold a song on my iphone and have it go to my "on the go" playlist... because right now on the iphone..."on the go" can be translated as "goin out of my way to sort through all my songs and adding a song i thought id like but then feeling like because i went through all of that trouble i should probably add more to it and then end up with a list i didn't want in the first place...what was the song i wanted again?" id like it to go back to "on the go" please
stick with what you did right..."on the go" on the classic ipods was heaven.