A Feature or two I wouldn't Mind Seeing...
There is a feature or two that I wouldn't mind seeing, to be quite honest.
Lyrics Support:
Firstly, there have been a few attempts to add lyric support for one's iTunes library... third party applications do exist where it attempts to create a database alongside one's existing library to store lyrics and the like for each particular song in the confines of the third-party app. The overall experience of these applications, for me at least, have been rather crude at best. I'd love to see iTunes add comprehensive lyric support, and make the lyrics searchable. I have a moderate playlist with just over 3,000 tracks. I don't necessarily get to all of the music on a regular basis, and sometimes I can remember a lyric better than I can remember an artist or song title, particularly a song that has a really strong hook of a chorus. It'd be quite handy to make this a searchable item, quite handy indeed. It'd be particularly handy when searching for just the right song when you've got a friend's iTunes library at your disposal... my buddy has a library that is in excess of 90GB; he literally has tens of thousands of tracks.
Album Artwork and CD Inserts:
Secondly, it'd be nice if the iTunes could offer a better, cleaner way of managing album artwork. It'd be awfully nice if they implemented an Album Artwork Database, based off of the iTMS. Importing CDs would not only sync up with the CDDB for track names and the like, but also sync up with an Apple album artwork database. This first part is highly unrealistic, but I think it'd be great. Also, as far as album artwork is concerned, It'd be sweet beans if they also offered from the iTMS, upon purchasing entire albums, one would also receive all of the CD inserts that one typically gets upon buying the actual album, rather than the digital music. This, too, is highly unrealistic, and would require an entire rework of the system, I'm afraid...
More realisticly, though, I'd love to see, as I said above, just a better way of managing the album artwork... smarter, if you will. For instance, when you import a CD with iTunes, and find the album artwork from say, Amazon.com, I'd like to see it auto-populate the album artwork to all of the tracks of the same album. Of course, one could just select all of the tracks at the very same time, and then add the album artwork, but I think we can all agree that it'd be a sexy feature.
Also, adding more support for the highly ambitious audiophile, or whatever they like to call themselves these days, who might like to either find or scan in their own CD Inserts and back-cover album artwork. As far as I know, this simply does not exist in iTunes currently.
Haven't any of you ever added a crumby album artwork picture, only to find a better picture for the album artwork? It's a real pain in the ass removing all of existing artwork from all of the tracks.
LAME Encoding, Natively:
True, one can simply run the LAME scripts for iTunes, but I see this as kind of a hassle. I'd like to be able to simply select if in the Importing Options. These are just pipe dreams, though.
More Visualizer Control:
Anyone can control the visualizer while in the visualizer with the keyboard. There are a number of keys and configurations one can use to play with the visualizer, but really, there is a general lack of control. I'd like a nice interface that allows you to control and pre-script the visualizer. It'd be kind of neat if, say, you could match up your favourite visualizations with your favourite songs, or even going further and being abel to select different visualizers like the new and improved G-Force or GasLight for particular songs. Truely, the iTunes Visualizer is kind of cool in it's own way, but all too often do I hear bitching from my brother about how Winamps Visualizer is so much cooler and how he hates the lack of control with the one offered in iTunes.
Realistically, only one or two of these ideas presented here are even semi-plausible. Other than that, it's all wishful thinking, and ultimately crap.
