How would you like to see iTunes improved?
The majority of the music I listen to is instrumental, but here I am singing along to Scott Walker’s The Electrician (be glad you can’t hear me!) As you can see from the screenshot above, I’ve got hold of a copy of the lyrics and pasted them into the text area of the MP3 file for reference (and caterwauling). However, this isn’t a particularly elegant way to access this information - indeed, it seems rather half-hearted. Perhaps Apple’s developers went this far and then observed the legal threats from record companies against all those lyric sites. If that wasn’t the case, I’m sure Apple could come up with a lovely piece of eye candy: semi-transparent text floating over your screen or similar.
Which leads me to the question posed in the title of this post - are there any ways you’d particularly like to see iTunes improved in terms of interface enhancements or ironing out niggles?
July 4th, 2007 at 2:31 am
tags!!!
I wish you could tag music on iTunes the way you can tag links on del.icio.us or songs on last.fm. In fact, if you could tag music on iTunes and/or last.fm and have both be the same - that would be awesome.
Some people use star ratings or the genre for this purpose but the beauty of tags is that they’re not finite and those things are. Last.fm is on the right path - apple just needs to get on the tagging bandwagon.
Also, I would really like to be able to create and modify playlists on an iPod the way you can in iTunes, and tag of course.
July 7th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
Very nice idea thanks Rudie. I use genre with the browser, but you’re right it’s not half as flexible as using tags. Having said that, I reckon Apple won’t implement such functionality - doesn’t really fit with their approach. Shame.
September 25th, 2007 at 1:49 am
I’d love for iTunes and iPod to be able to skip to the ‘next album’ rather than next track. Especially the case when on Album shuffle rather than Song shuffle.
It bugs me if I’m in Album Shuffle and it picks an album I don’t want to listen to - either reshuffle the entire library or press next 12 times to skip each individual track of the album I don’t want to hear.
How would they implement? I don’t know, perhaps if you hold next down for 2 secs?