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Survey Pointing At New iTunes Features? Social iTunes?
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other than the rewards and ability to recover lost songs, all of these features seem just gimmicky to me...
I would LOVE to see a rewards program. The only thing I wouldn't like about it is the number of songs I downloaded before the rewards program was implemented. There is also a feature that is probably impossible becasuse of DRM but I'd like to be able to download my music on other computers. I've got 2 that I use on a regular basis and I wish I didn't have to burn CDs every time I want to put them on the one I don't download to.
Hey i would love to see rewards also. maybe discounts on future ipod buys and accessories.
depending on how much you buy.
also, setting up a communal aspect of itunes would help drive community alot more. which would be great. it would make itunes feel less corporate.
and hell, with the loss of forum personell at apple, this could also come to bite them in the ass. they need good people to manage this.
depending on how much you buy.
also, setting up a communal aspect of itunes would help drive community alot more. which would be great. it would make itunes feel less corporate.
and hell, with the loss of forum personell at apple, this could also come to bite them in the ass. they need good people to manage this.
They need to improve on features they already have.
I've been squawking about iTunes lack of a true party mode for quite some time. If a song is playing (in party mode) and someone is browsing when they click on a song it should add to the list already playing, stopping the current song playing, and playing the new song isn't very party friendly. Yeah I know all about right clicking, adding to playlist yea, yea, yea. But during a party how many times does someone screw that up? Media Player gets it - why can't apple??
Also, album cover lookup should be built in, again, Media player gets it.
And, iTunes should be able to "watch" a specified folder, adding songs to it, or taking them out, should automatically add or take them out of iTunes.
again media player gets it, why can't apple.
and, when playing songs and using visualizer, when it comes to a music video, why can't the visualizer switch to the video, then when done go back to the visualizer?
and finally, why can't I associate a song with more than one album? ie I have the same song on two or three albums, and they have to be duplicated to keep their associated album names. Why do I care? If you desire to listen to your music by album, rather than by song this is important.
Before apple adds a bunch of fancy new features, I think they should improve on the ones they have.
Steve in Pa.
I've been squawking about iTunes lack of a true party mode for quite some time. If a song is playing (in party mode) and someone is browsing when they click on a song it should add to the list already playing, stopping the current song playing, and playing the new song isn't very party friendly. Yeah I know all about right clicking, adding to playlist yea, yea, yea. But during a party how many times does someone screw that up? Media Player gets it - why can't apple??
Also, album cover lookup should be built in, again, Media player gets it.
And, iTunes should be able to "watch" a specified folder, adding songs to it, or taking them out, should automatically add or take them out of iTunes.
again media player gets it, why can't apple.
and, when playing songs and using visualizer, when it comes to a music video, why can't the visualizer switch to the video, then when done go back to the visualizer?
and finally, why can't I associate a song with more than one album? ie I have the same song on two or three albums, and they have to be duplicated to keep their associated album names. Why do I care? If you desire to listen to your music by album, rather than by song this is important.
Before apple adds a bunch of fancy new features, I think they should improve on the ones they have.
Steve in Pa.
DaveP said:
No, you're the winner. 90% of the time the social features on stores are things that people click when they are bored and have nothing to do, or have money burning a hole in their pocket.
Maybe 10% of social bookmark usage on commercial sites is for finding new avenues of interest.
David
I don't get you people that would pay for a maintenance agreeement to restore lost songs. Why would you pay for something that you can easily backup for a few cents...and in fact are already backed up since a copy is on your computer and another on your iPod.
What I'd like to see is higher bitrate d/ls. Now THAT is something I might pay a few cents more for. Maybe $1.25 for a 320kbps song would get me to d/l more songs. But I really prefer ripping my own CDs so I can control quality to the extent I can.
What I'd like to see is higher bitrate d/ls. Now THAT is something I might pay a few cents more for. Maybe $1.25 for a 320kbps song would get me to d/l more songs. But I really prefer ripping my own CDs so I can control quality to the extent I can.
Chupa Chupa said:
I concur. I honestly cannot tell the difference between 128k and 192k but it is embarrassing that iTunes is the lowest quality store bitrate wise.
If Napster/MSN/Yahoo!/etc. were not run by complete morons they would exploit this fact in an advertising campaign.
treblah said:I concur. I honestly cannot tell the difference between 128k and 192k but it is embarrassing that iTunes is the lowest quality store bitrate wise.
If Napster/MSN/Yahoo!/etc. were not run by complete morons they would exploit this fact in an advertising campaign.
Except for the fact that, like you, most people can't really tell the difference. Especially when listening through their computer speakers or iPod earbuds.
I think the social things are kind of gimmicky. Do a lot of people REALLY use iMixes? Yes, I am sure you all use them all the time
Anyway, I think that Apple (and any online digital media service) should offer to replace lost files at cost. In other words, figure out how much the bandwidth is worth, and charge that. It is unreasonable to expect Apple to offer to replace tons of files for free.
Similarly, I think that, when Apple offers better quality files, they should offer to upgrade your files at cost (similar to above). I am not saying they would be legally bound to do so, but it would be a great value-add to the digital media purchase experience.
I don't think there should be some subscription maintenance insurance program thing for these services (assuming that's what they want to do).
Anyway, I think that Apple (and any online digital media service) should offer to replace lost files at cost. In other words, figure out how much the bandwidth is worth, and charge that. It is unreasonable to expect Apple to offer to replace tons of files for free.
Similarly, I think that, when Apple offers better quality files, they should offer to upgrade your files at cost (similar to above). I am not saying they would be legally bound to do so, but it would be a great value-add to the digital media purchase experience.
I don't think there should be some subscription maintenance insurance program thing for these services (assuming that's what they want to do).
Thataboy said:I think the social things are kind of gimmicky. Do a lot of people REALLY use iMixes? Yes, I am sure you all use them all the time
I, for one, have been waiting for Apple to incorporate at kind of MoodLogic mode for iTunes. Being able to select a style of music (a mood, a texture, similar sounding artists) would be a great addition onto iTunes. And because different people interpret things differently, it would only make sense to have people beable to "tag" the styles and then share them (like comparing notes).
I doubt this will be in the next iTunes, but I can always hope.
I'm still waiting for the option to assign 2+ genres to songs. If I have a song that is part of a movie soundtrack, but would otherwise be classified as rock, I want to be able to find it with the rest of my rock songs, but also with all my other movie soundtracks!
Yes, when you use iTunes sharing over the local network, all the playlists, including Smart PLaylists are accessible from the remote/client machine.UWF404 said:
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balamw said:
Unless they disable access to some playlists, by setting 'Share selected playlists' only. (sorry for being a smartass as this is really unlikely
) scphilipp1 said:
Actually most of them sound really cool, it'd be good if Party shuffle worked properly.
treblah said:That doesn't matter. We are talking about marketing baby!
You can't be logical when it comes to marketing
Start explaining the difference between bitrates to people and watch their
eyes glaze over. And if you advertise that the new iTunes music sounds better than last week's iTunes music, you run the risk of pissing off all the people that bought the billion "low-quality" songs.
I think that if they improve bitrates, it will be done quietly and gradually.
AlanAudio said:
Maybe the reaction was a bit "overkill"... but nobody was aware that they were introducing this new "feature" in their software. Neither we knew what information was being sent. Sometime I just miss those days where I had to "connect" to the Internet to use the web.
It was much slower but at least I had the impression that a knew a bit more of what was being sent between my Mac and the net...
netdog said:Oh yeah, this stuff is all way better than gapless playback would be.
On the iPod side: Not just "gapeless" playback but "crossfade" payback... That can't be that hard...
