iPod OK, No. 1 request dealt with... what next?

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What I think would be really cool is having play counts for more things like adding the play count up of each song in an album, total # of songs played by an artist, and total play count for your whole library. It might be just me, but I like checking out random stats like that when I'm bored or something.

Have you checked out Doug's Applescripts? There are scripts available to do all that kind of stuff and you can just add them to the menu.

I would just like to see the playlist folders on the iPod - I can have my playlists properly organised in iTunes, but on the iPod it's one painfully long list all mixed together.

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

What I think would be really cool is having play counts for more things like adding the play count up of each song in an album, total # of songs played by an artist, and total play count for your whole library. It might be just me, but I like checking out random stats like that when I'm bored or something.

Try iTunes Statistician.

 

[NicP]

I'm pretty happy the gapless issue has been addressed, what would be great next would be bluetooth (a2dp and avrcp). There are many car stereos now that support Bluetooth, Bluetooth speakers, and Bluetooth headsets, it would be really cool if the ipod worked with these!

 

[Proto Media]

more CONTENT USER CREATED PLEASE!

ok I just saw this post and thought I would post some stuff over from another post I made about all the ideas I have for itunes I thought it fit in this thread as well. here it goes:

I was thinking of other ways for apple to get more media related things into the itunes store. I was thinking they could start another little pane (similiar to movies, podcasts, music, etc) that would have movie tickets, sporting events tickets (football, hockey, baseball, basketball, other sports, motorsports?) all major concert tickets, and even tickets to plays. This way, millions of people would have access to it, and when viewing music in the store, or viewing trailers for movies, there would even be a button to "buy tickets now" and you could charge it all to your itunes account, and maybe even have iCal integration which automatically generates a new event on your tickets date, and the ability to ichat or email someone the ticket if you make plans with someone else.

I was also thinking that if compression of H.264 gets better, and bandwidth is greater, that they could offer 720p streaming concert footage at select concerts. I know a ton of people that would kill to see this. Just recently the TOOL concert in oakland, man what I would pay for footage of that. They could charge a full ticket price (like PPV) and then you could sit and watch the concert on your mac with a killer audio system (possibly 5.1?) and enjoy ripping your joint right at home. Anyways, these are just some ideas, throw yours out and let me know what you think.

O and I also think that itunes should add a playlist to your music, and a playlist for your videos, and call them the itunes freebies and have all the free itunes tracks on them, and all of the free video downloads on them, so that people can just go their quickly and watch all the free stuff and maybe convince them to buy the rest (in terms of maybe a season DVD set, give us 1 free "promo" show) and same with itunes, have a track from CDs that is a "promo" track, that automatically downloads to your playlist. Maybe the videos and cd tracks can even expire after a certain time, at which point you can decide to buy or pass (similiar to trial software).

Also one more idea I had was for an ifilm (independent film store) where anyone who has made a independent film can upload their movie, name a price (maybe between 4.99 and 9.99?) and see how well is sells. Their will be links to the movies soundtrack too (if available) and also to podcasts related to the movie (if available) and website. Apple can do similiar to ebay, and maybe charge a 30%? service fee.

And lastly, another cool thing I thought of was itunes pilot, which all those networks with all those pilots, can put all the pilot shows on and each month or week people can vote on their favorite ones, and then maybe that will persuade the network into producing the show. That way we can see all the cool shows that are trying to get made, get free entertainment, and the media networks can get a fell as to how good their show is going to pick up. (maybe even have commercials, ahhh, I KNOW, but it would help the networks recoup costs for providing it to us for free.)

- Ryan

 

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A2dp

 

[zephead]

Have you checked out Doug's Applescripts? There are scripts available to do all that kind of stuff and you can just add them to the menu.

I would just like to see the playlist folders on the iPod - I can have my playlists properly organised in iTunes, but on the iPod it's one painfully long list all mixed together.

Uhh.. is there anything like that for Windows? I don't have a Mac (yet).

The playlist folders are a really good idea, I remember when iTunes first had folders and I was wondering why the folders don't go in the iPod. Apple should definitely implement that.

 

[nickane]

I like a lot of your ideas, particularly Blue Velvet's downsampling and those suggesting smarter databasing to eliminate duplicate files and leave them with accurate playcounts, or having collaborations come up under both artists names. The trouble with those last two is that itunes is pretty ram intensive handling text in the way that it does already, and if it became that intuitive, it might be even slower. I also think album ratings are long overdue, both user-determined and as a mean of an album's song ratings.

My choices:

1) Chronological album/song ordering by artist (I'm sure there are workarounds for this already, but it should be easier to just play all of an artist's songs in the order they came out).
2) Most importantly for me, however, (and to a certain extent, an extension of Blue Velvet's request): a shuffle option to shuffle unrated songs. When your library breaches your ipod's capacity, the ratings are the easiest way to help you decide what to cull, and so being able to shuffle new songs on the go would allow you to listen to/rate what you've only just put on or haven't got round to rating yet.
3) By the same token, the ability to dictate rules as to what goes on your ipod, when there's not enough space to sync anymore (ie, songs rated 3 stars and above, albums rated 4 stars and above in their entirety, plus anything unrated, so I can "shuffle unrated" (see above) and decide whether they belong or not) without resorting to applescripts.

If someone could get Jobsy on this right away that'd be handy (probably reads every thread, tho, so I'm sure he'll see this eventually )