Can I ask, what is so bad about the Windows version? I gave my nano to my girlfriend, who uses Windows XP, and she said it was a nightmare. But then again, she only had 192mb RAM, apparently.
I've always wondered.
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Can I ask, what is so bad about the Windows version? I gave my nano to my girlfriend, who uses Windows XP, and she said it was a nightmare. But then again, she only had 192mb RAM, apparently.
I've always wondered.
I would like a new way to organize songs with multiple artists.
For songs with only one artist, everything would stay the same (Artist, Sort Artist).
For songs with more than one artist, include a new category: Display Artist. In the Display Artist category, you would type the artist name that you want displayed for that particular song. For instance, lets take the Akon and Eminem song 'Shake That.' The 'Artist' would be Akon, and the 'Display Artist' would be Akon and Eminem. In the song info, I would also add a "Artist Tab'. At the top, have the main Artist (Akon in this case) followed by the Display Artist.
After that I would have an 'Additional Artist' category. I could list Eminem here, so that this song would be accessible from the Eminem artist section also. It should be made to have support for as many "Additional Artists' as you choose. Each 'Additional Artist' could also come with a 'Sort Additional Artist' much like the Sorting tab in Song Info. This is also nice because I could have all of the D12 songs list D12 as the artist; yet fall into D12 and Eminem in the artist section.
For songs with only one artist, everything would stay the same (Artist, Sort Artist).
For songs with more than one artist, include a new category: Display Artist. In the Display Artist category, you would type the artist name that you want displayed for that particular song. For instance, lets take the Akon and Eminem song 'Shake That.' The 'Artist' would be Akon, and the 'Display Artist' would be Akon and Eminem. In the song info, I would also add a "Artist Tab'. At the top, have the main Artist (Akon in this case) followed by the Display Artist.
After that I would have an 'Additional Artist' category. I could list Eminem here, so that this song would be accessible from the Eminem artist section also. It should be made to have support for as many "Additional Artists' as you choose. Each 'Additional Artist' could also come with a 'Sort Additional Artist' much like the Sorting tab in Song Info. This is also nice because I could have all of the D12 songs list D12 as the artist; yet fall into D12 and Eminem in the artist section.
My theory is that they're going to release the final version of Safari 3 (for platforms other than Leopard) and bundle it with the Windows version of iTunes 7.5, like they do QuickTime already, since iTunes already is using WebKit to render the iTunes Store on Windows. I believe Steve Jobs mentioned something about bundling it eventually when he announced Safari for Windows.
It's a Terrible memory Hog. It's slow to start. Cover flow is choppy if you don't have a lot of Ram. It crashes sometimes. It's just a buggy windows program...
I suspect some of this is Apple's fault for not knowing how to effectively write Windows code, and some of it is Microsoft's fault for not allowing Windows to manage resources better.
Maybe they want the Windows version to function? The Windows version of Safari fails as a Windows app. You can't even minimize/maximize it via the taskbar.
But they're still "movies." Create a smart playlist, consisting of movies that are less than a certain size or duration, and call it "Videos."
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jmadlena
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A feature I've been hoping (and writing to them) for is to have a Bookmarks menu bar item. I shouldn't have to go searching or browsing to find a favorite artist/album. I should be able to click something like 'Bookmark This' on the page or in a menu and have it save the page in iTunes. I hate having to search for an artist and have a bunch of irrelevant other items come up.
I know they have more practical things to worry about like bugs, but this has been annoying me for as long as I've been using iTunes.
I know they have more practical things to worry about like bugs, but this has been annoying me for as long as I've been using iTunes.
I want the ability to rate albums as a whole and not just individual songs.
gB
That feature already exists in 7.4.2.
It's not necessary to go to Album View (i.e., the "middle view"). From any view, just hit Command-J and enable "Album Ratings."
The problem here is conventions and consistency. Everywhere else in the operation system (and in virtually every other cataloging system), symbols and numbers are sorted before letters. Even in the new versions of iTunes, the list of available playlists is sorted symbols -> numbers -> letters, and yet the track browser uses some bizarro-land sorting method.
I've been using iTunes since before Apple bought it (and it was called SoundJam MP). That's a long time to engrain into one's head that '2Pac' and '.38 Special' are at the top of the list, not the bottom. Completely shirking user expectations and common conventions is a very poor choice, especially in the name of 'aesthetics'.
Hit Command-J, then enable either the "Category" or "Grouping" columns. Move the column wherever you'd like (such as right after the track name). Then, when you want to add a "favorite," click in that field and type a "%" or "," or some other symbol of your choice -- a symbol that wouldn't typically appear in other fields. (I would avoid the asterisk.)
Then all you have to do is type that symbol in the search field, and voila -- you have your "bookmarks."
I agree with your point, regarding consistency. However, I have so many songs that begin with numerals that I have to admit it would drive me nuts to see them all at the top. I prefer seeing the songs beginning with the letter "A" first.
That said, I do believe in consistency, so at the very least it would be cool if Apple made the sort order a simple matter of a preference. The user could choose the scheme he/she likes, and everyone would be happy.
A hope and a comment: a way to search the iTunes Store in the search field without having to move the thing on the left side to "store"; and I've noticed that many more "hertzian" radio stations now appear in iTunes--not sure when that happened, but its a great addition.
Because iTunes never was a Mac OS X App... it was a Classic (OS9) app before. It was sloppily ported to OS X as a Carbon application right from the start and has never lost that legacy ported feeling. As far as I know, it is still written in carbon, uses its own window drawing code, still uses (now depreciated) carbon quicktime interfaces, and hasn't really been modernized as a true OS X native app. I still don't understand why they have not at least gotten rid of the custom window drawing code (they even do this in other iApps -- i know iPhoto for sure). It just doesn't make sense to me.
P.S. Do not take my comments about iTunes being carbon to mean that I think carbon is bad, I understand that modern features can be implemented just fine in Carbon and that carbon apps are not necessarily any better or worse than Cocoa apps.
I wonder what the duplicate songs fix means. I know when I imported my CDs, iTunes would "The Beatles" and just "Beatles" as 2 different artists. Maybe 7.5 will see them as the same?
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jmadlena
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That isn't what I meant. Sorry that I didn't make myself clearer. I want a bookmarks in the iTunes Music Store. That way I don't have to search for favorite artists. The browser works well enough for me in my library. But thanks for the tip.
Jaryd
You can drag and drop any song from the store onto one of your playlists. When you open up that playlist and highlight any song, a little arrow appears which takes to the store page of that album. I don't think a bookmark feature will be any better.
I use this to keep a wishlist.
scale able scroll bars like in logic studio?
I dont really see the function of that in iTunes. Works great in Logic, but exactly how many fields would you have horizontally in your iTunes that you would need that? (and the type would get so small!)