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Whats your biggest pet peeve about iTunes?

What I would love is a way for there to be able to sort by artist's chronological album release (grouped by artist first)...with all the different albums I have for the few artists I have, I would like it if they played in the order they were released. Organize by artist alphabetically first, then by album order (earliest to latest). It's a nitpick, but a way I prefer if I'm working and I just want to let the tunes play.

(if this can be done and I'm simply an un-explorative moron, feel free to explain. :D )
 
The CPU usage is horrible. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Apple is incapable of writing efficient software.
 
How about audio balance controls? left right? front back? My clock radio gives me that...


EDIT: Oops. Shoulda done a google search before putting my foot in my mouth... balance control is in system preferences for sounds....
 
There should be a way within iTunes to buy music using any computer in your house and move it to a central server for playing.

Ideally you'd just specify what your default library for purchases was and they'd automatically go there.
 
The slow browsing thing is a bit of an annoyance for me, especially when my flatmates equally big music library (which shows up through my wireless network), browses quickly.

Regarding the iTunes store, I wish the songs wouldn't DRM'd, but rather just normal MP3's
 
The fact that you have to go to the view menu to change the equalizer whereas before all you had to do was alter it by clicking the box in the bottom corner. :mad:
 
darkwing said:
The CPU usage is horrible. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Apple is incapable of writing efficient software.
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I dont think they are incapable of writing eficient software.. but i think they've been sitting too long on MR reading about what people want in iTunes. Then when we get it, we realize that it was better without it, but TOO LATE! .. Im not really sure where im going with this, but iTunes 7 is a step backwards regarding usability.
 

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Collapsible Track Sets!!

Are you listening Apple?!

I have been wanting this feature for about four iTunes versions now. I have a lot of audiobooks and spoken word that sometime will contain dozens and dozens of tracks for a single book or lecture. I hate having to scroll past all those tracks while browsing my whole library, especially when I already know I am not looking for Books or Spoken.

I want to be able to select a group of tracks and say "Make Collapsible" and have iTunes hide all the tracks for that album/book under ONE track that has a disclosure triangle to the left. So if I want to, I can see all the chapters/tracks, but if not, they only take up a single line per item.

Make it happen :cool:
 
dabirdwell said:
Are you listening Apple?!

I have been wanting this feature for about four iTunes versions now. I have a lot of audiobooks and spoken word that sometime will contain dozens and dozens of tracks for a single book or lecture. I hate having to scroll past all those tracks while browsing my whole library, especially when I already know I am not looking for Books or Spoken.

I want to be able to select a group of tracks and say "Make Collapsible" and have iTunes hide all the tracks for that album/book under ONE track that has a disclosure triangle to the left. So if I want to, I can see all the chapters/tracks, but if not, they only take up a single line per item.

Make it happen :cool:
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Why not just make a smart playlist that excludes the items you don't want?
 
No transcode-on-sync feature, which means I have to maintain a duplicate library of all my tracks. One in Lossless format and one in AAC format that is synced to my iPod (That or manually manage everything). It'd be very nice if there was an option to have a SYNC profile with the desired format, connect ipod, checks source format of new items, if it matches, copy it, if it's different, transcode it to the new format specified for that iPod. *sigh* *twiddle*

Without this I need to also have smart playlists to select the AAC files and tell it to only sync that smart playlist...bah, what a hack.
 
I think the resource hogging is a big mistake. At some point they are going to realize they need to release a 'light' version... one that doesn't take up 500 mb of ram, and just plays music.

And then they'll have to name it... maybe something catchy, like 'iTunes'. Then they can take the multimedia monster they've got now and rename it to 'Kitchen Sync'.

Honestly, I think they should have made a seperate app for video altogether.
 
cepler said:
No transcode-on-sync feature, which means I have to maintain a duplicate library of all my tracks. One in Lossless format and one in AAC format that is synced to my iPod (That or manually manage everything). It'd be very nice if there was an option to have a SYNC profile with the desired format, connect ipod, checks source format of new items, if it matches, copy it, if it's different, transcode it to the new format specified for that iPod. *sigh* *twiddle*

Without this I need to also have smart playlists to select the AAC files and tell it to only sync that smart playlist...bah, what a hack.
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Yea, I don't get why they allow this for the iPod Shuffle only. I mean...I know the iPod Shuffle is much smaller so transcoding n't take as long as it would on, say, a 32GB iPod...but still.
 
pianoman said:
or maybe use the app they have. it's called Quicktime and comes installed on every Mac.
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I mean a full-fledged video library manager. Connects to the same store as iTunes, but every feature and button in the app is for video only. Sure would cut down on the clutter, and the overhead. And give them room to grow.
 
I have two Problems

1. on my PC "Random" isn't very random. I double click on "All Albums" in the browser, and it always starts with the same CD. Then it plays all the CDs in the same order.

2. It doesn't live update the Library. I have several computers, and one central location for music. I have one computer which manages the music location. But if i add new music i then need to manually add the folder on all the computers or manually re-add the folder. Ahh So frustrating
 
Personally, I think iTunes 7.1 is the first version (that I've used) that they actually got right. The previous iTune 7 versions sucked, and I never really liked versions 4-6 (I've never used any previous version).
But my biggest pet peeve is that Music Videos don't have their own item on the source list.
 
IAmNotMyName said:
As I posted in a recent thread, I want iTunes to be able to search through a drive or directory of my choice and update the songs. Remove all references to missing files and add in the new ones. Winamp does this seamlessly on a PC, I don't think it's too much to ask on my otherwise vastly superior mac. :mad:
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I've used WMP11 to do this, but it's somewhat buggy.

But I agree...I wish Apple would implement a "update media information" feature into iTunes, that's my only real pet peeve about iTunes. I don't have any problems elsewhere with anything (and I'm well over 15,000 songs/60gb on my library). Runs fast for me unless I decide to gawk around in Cover Flow. :)
 
The only thing that bothers me at this point is that when I delete something, e.g. a podcast, the default option is to leave it on the harddrive. In Windows, you can check a "always do this" and select "move to trash-can." It sucks that OSX iTunes doesn't have this, or at least allow me to pick the other option with spacebar.
 
What really bugs me the most is the search. On winamp there was a command to jump to a song. You type in the song name, it finds the list of songs and you click the one you want to play. You can do this on iTunes too but on winamp it would go back to playing all the songs in your library and not stay within the search like itunes does. So in itunes i have to go search, find, play and then X the search. Stupid extra step.
 
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