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iTunes 5 new features? What should apple do?

iTunes crossfade

agree about the customizable fading. The current fade-in/fade-out model is pretty awful; even if it's not editable, the ability to truly cross-fade would really help... as would the ability to *not* pause between specified tracks.
 
Wishlist problem solved...

flyfish29 said:
I also think the biggest fault of iTMusic Store is the lack of a wish list. I have had this come up several times that I search for music and with the great marketing they do on iTMS with suggested picks, etc. I end up with more music than I can buy at that point in time so I have to delete some of them from my shopping cart...so I end up not remembering all that I wanted to buy the next time I purchase music. Would also be nice (but not necessary) would be the ability to have others search for your wish list and purchase music for you and the next time you show up at ITMS your selected wish list choices automatically download!
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*ATTENTION*

You can already have a wishlist of iTMS songs on your very own computer running the latest version of iTunes!

1. Create a regular new playlist and name it Wishlist.
2. Go to the iTMS.
3. Find a song you want, click on it, and drag it to the Wishlist playlist.
4. When you go to the Playlist, it will display all of the information about the song, and it even has a one-click button to purchase the song without having to go to the music store!

I've had a wishlist for several months now.
 
My appologies if someone has allready posted this, but there's allready a wishlist function in iTunes. Just create a new playlist and name it "wishlist" for example, then go to the musicstore and drag and drop the songs you want to the new playlist. Later on you can buy them right form the playlist.
 
Krs A said:
My appologies if someone has allready posted this, but there's allready a wishlist function in iTunes. Just create a new playlist and name it "wishlist" for example, then go to the musicstore and drag and drop the songs you want to the new playlist. Later on you can buy them right form the playlist.
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I believe you can also highlight items in the shopping cart and buy just those items, as opposed to the whole cart. At least I'm pretty sure I've done this. But it would be nice to have a wishlist in the Amazon sense from which other people could buy you songs. Well, no one I know uses that at Amazon, but it seems to work for them. :rolleyes:
 
WHAT I REALLY REALLY WANT?

Don't know how many people have said this as im just off out for a meal down the pub but...

...i would really like convert AAC into MP3 when burning off an MP3 cd, this would make me very happy.

And also my brother in law.
 
I'd like a couple things from iTunes 5...

  • The ability to download songs at higher than 128kbps.
  • To be able to hit the delete key when in a PLAYLIST and be able to delete the song from your library. I have a "New Tunes" smart playlist, which updates with the songs added within 2 weeks time. Sometimes I don't like the songs, quality is bad, etc. Instead of being able to delete them on the spot, I have to search my library (~1300 songs!) to find it and delete it. Gets a bit frustrating
  • Automatic album art downloads, like when ripping CD's and such. The third-party apps are nice, but not perfect.
 
Littleodie914 said:
I'd like a couple things from iTunes 5...

  • The ability to download songs at higher than 128kbps.
  • To be able to hit the delete key when in a PLAYLIST and be able to delete the song from your library. I have a "New Tunes" smart playlist, which updates with the songs added within 2 weeks time. Sometimes I don't like the songs, quality is bad, etc. Instead of being able to delete them on the spot, I have to search my library (~1300 songs!) to find it and delete it. Gets a bit frustrating
  • Automatic album art downloads, like when ripping CD's and such. The third-party apps are nice, but not perfect.
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I believe you can delete a song from a playlist and your library at the same time. It's by holding down some keys at the same time or something. I read about it in one of the tip things from Apple.
 
chameeeleon said:
option-delete is the shortcut you're looking for if I'm not mistaken. or cmd-option-delete.
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sweet i was just about to say i want that feature also. its so frusterating having to find the song again, especially when its a duplicate or such.

anywase the bigest feature i want is nested playlists already.
 
nuclearwinter said:
i don't know if you can do this, but i would like to see the possibility to change aac into mp3 so you can burn mp3 discs. Alot of my windows friends like itunes but won't use it as the default because they imported as aac. That's partly their own fault since you can import as mp3 too, but they all have mp3 disc players in their cars, home stereos etc. aac is better i think, but some people just can't get over the old standard. If there were something that allowed you to convert an aac into mp3, i think alot more people would be using itunes.
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I think you can already do that. Just select MP3 as your standard importer and then click on an unprotected AAC File. If you go to Advanced, you should find an option to "Convert selection to MP3".
By the way, you can even use iTunes to burn MP3 CDs.
 
I want a feature that automatically copies all downloaded music to other authorized comptuers on your network, elimnating the need to manually export each new iTMS file and copy it to each workstation.
 
parrothead said:
I wouldnt mind the option to NOT download the album art with every song. Also, being able to choose bit rate would be nice.
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I'm just curious as to why? When you can just disable the artwork preview pane therefore never seeing the artwork again.
 
Won't happen, but I'd like to eventually see quicktime mixed in with iTunes. Like WMP, only higher quality. I'm sure Apple would be able to make a nice interface for it. It's still a couple revisions away in my mind, but it will be much easier having it all in one central location.
 
1. The ability to add tracks to the Library based on the directory/filename rather than Tags - not everyone uses compressed/taggable formats. Also also pick up album cover art if it is present.

2. Better remote/shared/distributes integration features. ie things like allowing the updating of ratings/playcounts for shared libraries, remote control of other itunes, streaming music to other devices (like airport extreme) using a single sharing/control open protocol.

Basically I would like the setup where I have a server running itunes, a device like a Roku soundbridge attached to my hifi, and a powerbook. I want to be able to use the roku interface/remotecontrol to play stuff from the server and update ratings/playcounts. I also want to be able to use my powerbook to send stuff to the Roku and also use the powerbook to send stuff from the server to the roku
 
A frequent request for iTunes and iTMS is wish lists, which has been available and capable since the introduction of iTunes 4.0 and the iTunes Music Store. The majority of users don't seem aware of this feature yet, and maybe it seems a bit quirky dragging a song from the iTMS to a personal playlist in iTunes. iTMS songs can be dragged to any playlist and mixed with songs already in your iTunes library (useful for "theme" playlists), however they will only play a 30 second sample and will not record (burn) to CD.

theipodgod16 said:
What I want to see is bands like IMA ROBOT, who used to be on the store, returned to the store. Their album was yanked, with no explanation as to why or when it will return. Now i cant forward my friends to their single the legit way....
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The decision for albums to get added or pulled is made by artists and/or their record companies, not by iTunes Music Store.

TBR said:
The ability to auto beatmatch would be very cool for playlist creation allowing you to specify a BPM and iTunes will do it's best to create a constant uninterupted stream of mixed music.

Maybe some cool DJ-esque tools to allow iTunes to become a very cool DJ tool. Almost an automatic DJ. This would be very cool.
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This would be good as a separate program or add-on module, such as a plug-in. I want iTunes to remain a simple (and small) song player (jukebox), without any unnecessary features. I want my songs to playback as intended by the artist without beatmatching (or other "DJ" manipulations) and with the natural pause of silence between songs.
 
You want a wishlist? That's easy!

Make a new playlist. Drag the iTMS track to that playlist (call it wishlist). It appears as a track. You can play it if you can connect to the iTMS. It even has a "Buy" button there, so you can buy the music. Its a neat feature.
 
Defidantly, I want the feature to play WMA... on iPods also.

Also, it wouldn't be too bad if iTMS downloads could include the back cover art also - sometimes, the back cover is nicer than the front cover/explains more about the album...

ahem, Eminem's Encore is an example...
 
dotdotdot said:
Defidantly, I want the feature to play WMA... on iPods also.
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Sure, that would be nice...but Microsoft won't allow it, I'm afraid.

The one feature I want in iTunes 5 is hierarchical playlists.
 
wrldwzrd89 said:
Sure, that would be nice...but Microsoft won't allow it, I'm afraid.
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Plus, WMA is crappy compared to other standards.

wordmunger said:
Burn Protected AACs into MP3 CDs.

I know. Not going to happen. I can dream, can't I?
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Don't know why you'd want to do this, as MP3 is crappy compared to AAC (MPEG-4), however, this has been possible since iTunes 4 and QuickTime 6.

tompatros said:
I'd like to see some more robust ID tag editing, ideally from within the iTunes Library list. Sometimes, songs don't show up where I expect them on my iPod, so that's why I'm a stickler for maintaining good tags.

I'd like the lis to function more like a spreadsheet program, where you could edit a cell, then drag that value across several rows to, say, correct and entire album from a given artist. Paging through and editing tags one-by-one is just painful.
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This is already currently possible in iTunes, just select multiple items, then Get Info (command-I).

wPod said:
. . . im thinking more of like a graphic representation of the song (such as you see when you import a clip in garageband) and possibly more editing options tied in with garageband. . . like i could take a clip of beats from the end of the song and copy it a couple times to extend the time to mix with another song.
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That is not the intention nor the purpose of iTunes and is better served by a different application program. iTunes is a song playback application, like a jukebox, not a DJ mixing booth or station, and needs to remain so. Song manipulation and DJ features would be good as a separate program or maybe an add-on module, such as a plug-in. These programs already exist and are available. I want iTunes to remain a simple (and small) song player (jukebox), without any other unnecessary features. I want my songs to playback as intended by the artist without beatmatching (or other "DJ" manipulations) and with the natural pause of silence between songs.
 
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