[TETENAL]

• Gapless Playback. Interestingly the Airport Express can do it, so why not iTunes when playing directly?
• Better handling of radio plays. Apple should finally acknowledge that they exist and that they are neither audio books purchased from the iTMS nor ripped music. Currently radio plays are handled as music and to avoid that they are played one after the other one has to uncheck them, which unfortunately means they can not be selected from within FrontRow.
• Freely resizable album art window, not just two fixed sizes.
• Non-modal preferences window. The current one is an anachronism.
• Onscreen controls for video playback in fullscreen.
• A menu command to put video into fullscreen! I can't believe Apple forgot this. When you close the main iTunes window, there is no way to put the video into fullscreen.
• Live mirror effect in the music store's video previews. The preview picture currently has the mirror effect, but it disappears when the preview video starts. With CoreImage this shouldn't be hard to implement at all.
• Multiple concurrent playback. I would like to be able to continue listening to something in my library (podcast for example) while previewing songs in the music store at the same time.
• Album list view (in addition to the regular list view) that displays all songs sorted by album next to the album art.
• New and unstretched visualizer. I don't think the visualizer has been updated at all since iTunes 1. And it annoyingly stretches in fullscreen on widescreen displays.
• Modern look for the blue bar in Party-Shuffle.
• No more beachballing when starting video.

What do you expect from iTunes 7?

[SpaceMonkey]

FLAC support. Or at least, the opportunity for 3rd-party developers to create a better FLAC plug-in than what is currently available.

There is a rumor that Leopard includes FLAC in the audio APIs.

[jasong]

• Allow me to tag a song with mulitple albums so I don't have to have 3 copies of a song that appears on more than one album (think orginal album, greatest hits, and sountracks)
• Include an option to download lyrics to songs and make those lyrics easily viewable
• Multiple libraries so I can store my rarely played songs on an external disk
• Better method for sharing songs with multiple users so my wife and I can easily use each others music but have separate playlists

[TETENAL]

Originally Posted by jasong

• Better method for sharing songs with multiple users so my wife and I can easily use each others music but have separate playlists

I forgot this. This is something I wish as well!

FLAC support is not important since iTunes already has Apple Lossless which is at least as good and works with the iPod.

[SpaceMonkey]

Originally Posted by TETENAL

FLAC support is not important since iTunes already has Apple Lossless which is at least as good and works with the iPod.

Yeah, what was I thinking?

By the way, gapless playback is not important because AOR is dead.

[dimmer]

because AOR is dead.

About time. Thats one prayer I can take off my night time list. Can someone check and see if I'm well enough hung that I can choke a horse yet? Thanks!

[monkeybrain]

Browse by album art would be great, and a nice feature to show off. They could do something really nice with all the core technologies, but the question is whether the need to maintain an identical Window's version is holding Apple back from implementing more advanced functionality like that.

[B Gallagher]

They could always do what MS does, and give the OS X version twice as many features as the Windows version...

[harrisjamieh]

I want them to finnaly sort out video in iTunes. There is no reason why even my Core Duo machines should slow waaay down when loading a video... quicktime doesn't do it, so nor should iTunes

[Jonesy]

I would like to see mp3 disks made easier. My files are ripped as aac files. If I want to burn a disk to play in a car stereo I have to manually convert them or not bother. Instead of the error message telling me only a few tracks will be burned I would like iTunes to convert them to mp3 then burn them. I don't care how long it takes, I just want it to do it for me.

[tae667]

Originally Posted by TETENAL

• Gapless Playback. Interestingly the Airport Express can do it, so why not iTunes when playing directly?
• No more beachballing when starting video.

These two are the main features I'm waiting for. Video player really needs dramatical improvements - something like 10x fastere might satisfy me. My machine is very slow, but the video player really shouldn't beachball every single time I click on a video file.

[seanc]

The only thing I want is Global Hotkeys!!

[siMac]

Browse by album cover. Something cool like CoverFlow in the main window.

I had a PC using friend explain to me the other day why he doesn't like iTunes and it's because he finds the huge list of songs in the library window too daunting. PC users are used to navigating folder hierarchy and even when I showed him how to use Browse it didn't help.

A nice method of browsing albums by cover might help this situation. And hell yeah, use Core Image, screw the windows version, let them get Macs.

Also, an improved sound enhancer would be good. I use Volume Logic and it's amazing the difference it makes. The Sound Check algorithm could use some work too, I use iVolume which is slower but uses a better process, plus it transfers settings to the iPod.

New/alternative visualiser would be nice too. And I second the need for better multiuser sharing.

[scattered]

GAPLESS PLAYBACK (also on ipods as well)

[siMac]

Originally Posted by scattered

GAPLESS PLAYBACK (also on ipods as well)

The lack of gapless playback in iTunes doesn't bother me personally since I am happy with the crossfade function. However something needs to be done for the iPod playback, either gapless or crossfade (or both).

[scattered]

Originally Posted by siMac

The lack of gapless playback in iTunes doesn't bother me personally since I am happy with the crossfade function. However something needs to be done for the iPod playback, either gapless or crossfade (or both).

I'm actually really surprised iPods don't have crossfade playback when iTunes does. Logically, you'd think Apple would try to make the experience of listening to music both ways as similar as possible.

[lavar78]

The most important feature for me is enabling the "Featured Artist" (or "Supporting Artist") field that is already in the ID3 spec. I put it in the Comments field now, but that's just a workaround.

[krove]

1. Convert the monolithic iTunes Library file to a SQLite database to allow for easier access to iTunes data by other user-written applications (instead of having to parse the XML file or rely on AppleScript, which is slow—see #2).

2. Speed up AppleScript! With a library of over 23,000 songs, it has become impossible to use even the most basic of scripts.

[siMac]

Originally Posted by lavar78

The most important feature for me is enabling the "Featured Artist" (or "Supporting Artist") field that is already in the ID3 spec. I put it in the Comments field now, but that's just a workaround.

Seconded.

[sushiism]

• Allow mass "Skip this track in shuffle mode"
• Automatic album art downloading
• Allow users to move what they want to whatever section, I have 2.8 gig of radio shows and would like them in the podcast section as they are not music. Just make it so if you put genre as podcast then move them to the podcast section using the album as the heading.

[MaxPower2k3]

Originally Posted by scattered

I'm actually really surprised iPods don't have crossfade playback when iTunes does. Logically, you'd think Apple would try to make the experience of listening to music both ways as similar as possible.

The reason i figure the iPods don't have gapless playback/crossfade is that it has to start decoding the next song while the current one is still playing, which requires more processing power. On a computer, this is no issue at all, but on the iPod with a dedicated decoder chip, it may not be so easy.

[Horsepoo!!!]

Rewritten from scratch...that is all.

Plz Apple...k, thx.

[TETENAL]

Originally Posted by sushiism

• Allow mass "Skip this track in shuffle mode"

What do you mean by that? You can skip in Shuffle mode.

Originally Posted by MaxPower2k3

The reason i figure the iPods don't have gapless playback/crossfade is that it has to start decoding the next song while the current one is still playing, which requires more processing power. On a computer, this is no issue at all, but on the iPod with a dedicated decoder chip, it may not be so easy.

The Airport Express can do it. It probably doesn't have the fastest CPU in history inside too. And why doesn't iTunes do it when playing on the computer when it's "no issue at all" to do it on a computer? It's sort of a mystery to me why they didn't fix this in 6 major revisions of the software.

[butchfoote]

Easy ability to move itunes library from one (authorized) Mac to another (authorized) Mac - deciding to change computers today is an infinite PITA.

Bluetooth iPods that either talk to existing telco bluetooth headsets or one with good fidelity. wires are pretty stupid technology.

ipod shuffle in a nice ball point pen form factor

[OAW]

Originally Posted by siMac

Seconded.

Thirded. I currently add a "f. Joe Blow" to the end of every song title with a featured artist. I absolutely detest how the ITMS just tacks such info into the Artist tag, which screws up the artist list big time. But my workaround has drawbacks of its own, namely it makes any automatic lyric searching (e.g., Sing That iTune, Pear Lyrics, etc.) fail because the song name no longer matches what's in the DB. If iTunes had a dedicated field for featured artist(s) that would be a really good thing.

OAW

[Curiosity]

I wish iTunes would play midi karaoke files, and display the words the way Apple Quicktime does.

[siMac]

Originally Posted by MaxPower2k3

The reason i figure the iPods don't have gapless playback/crossfade is that it has to start decoding the next song while the current one is still playing, which requires more processing power. On a computer, this is no issue at all, but on the iPod with a dedicated decoder chip, it may not be so easy.

What about the other digital music players that can do it?

[Horsepoo!!!]

• CoreData SQLite database (as krove mentioned) for performance gains and 3rd-party access
• CoreAnimation for album cover browsing
• CoreImage/CoreVideo/CoreAnimation for visualizer
• Real Spotlight integration
• CoreAudio for added effects
• Nix Windows version (haha, kidding...just make the Windows version as close to the Mac version as possible...it'll be hard considering all these cool APIs are only available on OS X but whatever.)

[Lew]

Originally Posted by siMac

The lack of gapless playback in iTunes doesn't bother me personally since I am happy with the crossfade function

The problem is that the crossfade function is absolutely useless for DJ mixes.

[sushiism]

Originally Posted by TETENAL

What do you mean by that? You can skip in Shuffle mode.

Keyword here is mass..

Select a track>cmd+I > options > Skip while shuffling

Select many tracks>cmd+I> OH ITS NOT THERE



Not too bad on my mac because there is an applescript that does this, but you can't do this at all on windows which is where I needed it the other day.

[fisherKing]

•manually sort songs in a playlist (ie if i want a certain artist's tracks in a certain order.
•set crossfading (or turn off) by playlist: i want it usually, but not when playing classical stuff.
•multiple libraries (as mentioned earlier)

some things, like global hotkeys, u can do with shareware apps (i use imote, invisibly, for this)
there are apps at versiontracker for doing multiple libraries as well.

oh, also:

•custom themes; ie the ability to change the gui appearance (altho i'm a shapeshifter user anyway).

and would be great if itunes could automatically delete mediocre songs...

[MattJeff]

ummm well not many ppl do this but i play the games on my ipod (as well as music and podcasts and such ) but games you could download from ITMS would be Amazing, like tetris and mario and just fun little "pass the time/ my ears need a break), oh oh and i know this might be better on the ipod forum but if the games had sound, that would be rockin'. (just to get this clear, i did not nor will ever buy an ipod to play games)


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[pyrite]

Originally Posted by siMac

The lack of gapless playback in iTunes doesn't bother me personally since I am happy with the crossfade function. However something needs to be done for the iPod playback, either gapless or crossfade (or both).

r u serious? the lack of gapless playback is ridiculous! winamp has had mods for gapless play for years (though i still dont think its integrated..), and iTunes being the monolith it is has no excuse for not making this work. i love iTunes, but the exclusion of this is crap. it takes away from the immersion of an album. I love your idea of being able to set crossfades on or off based on playlist fisherking, it's a great option for compilation playlists but crap for full albums so it'd be awesome to make it selective.
As for iPod, there are also several portable MP3 players that play with gapless track transitions and have done since shortly after the birth of the 2nd gen iPod so i cant see any reason they cant get this right for the next gen.

[pyrite]

btw can someone tell me what AOR is?

[StarCross]

At the moment, I have a few requests:

- The ability move multiple playlists into a playlist folder.

- A "smarter" Smart Playlist with nested or grouped rules. For example, I want a Smart Playlist that will grab four or five star songs from the separate genres alternative and rock. iTunes currently does not allow me to do this easily, as there is only "Match all" or "Match any" of the following rules.

[sushiism]

gapless playback doesn't bother me on iTunes but on the iPod its very very annoying, you would think by the 5th generation they would have fixed this seen as many albums do fade together especially in electronic music.

However more iTunes features:
+A new visualiser, or autorun on the current vis so when the user switches to a different application the playlist fades out or slides up and the visualiser is running behind it. Nice chance to show off core animation etc. Screw the windows version that can just flick straight to the vis, they're used to flickery single buffered crap anyway.
+Use the disk number 1 of whatever to order tracks, so if its a two disk album and both disks are named the same in the tag then order them
1.1
1.2
1.3
....
1.9
2.1
2.2
etc
and in the iPod menu when selecting that album offer:
All
Disk 1
Disk 2

Bit more intuitive

Finally, get a better cd database the current one is full of misinformed rubbish no my album isn't the inferior 2 disk american version stupid system.

[scattered]

Originally Posted by pyrite

btw can someone tell me what AOR is?

Album-oritented rock. Rock music you're supposed to listen to a complete album, rather than a bumch of songs. It was popular among 70s prog bands. Cf Dark Side of the Moon.

edit: it's not a computer term, if that's what you were thinking

[lavar78]

Originally Posted by fisherKing

•manually sort songs in a playlist (ie if i want a certain artist's tracks in a certain order.

You can do that now. Click the first column and sort to your heart's content. When you get it right, you can ⌃-click on the playlist and select "Copy to Play Order."

[monkeybrain]

Originally Posted by scattered

Album-oritented rock. Rock music you're supposed to listen to a complete album, rather than a bumch of songs. It was popular among 70s prog bands. Cf Dark Side of the Moon.

edit: it's not a computer term, if that's what you were thinking

I think in the UK we use the term 'concept album' for this (sounds like they are the same thing). An album that has an overriding concept behind it and therefore is best listened to as an album. It's debatable which who was first to do it, but something like The Who's Tommy is a good example (actually that is more a rock-opera).

Anyway, the point is that gapless playback really adds to the listening experience with these albums, since the tracks often merge into each other.

[fisherKing]

[I]

Originally Posted by lavar78

You can do that now. Click the first column and sort to your heart's content. When you get it right, you can ⌃-click on the playlist and select "Copy to Play Order."

does not seem to work...
if i click in the number column, songs are re-ordered in (what appears to be) random order,
but i can't move anything...

[selowitch]

iTunes for Linux. Or, even better, iTunes Server for Linux.

[seanc]

Originally Posted by selowitch

iTunes for Linux. Or, even better, iTunes Server for Linux.

YES! How could I forget this. Having to burn all my music to CD to play it in Amarok isn't fun.

[Visnaut]

Originally Posted by fisherKing

[I]


does not seem to work...
if i click in the number column, songs are re-ordered in (what appears to be) random order,
but i can't move anything...

I get this once in a while too for some reason, I think it's a new bug in iTunes 6. Here's my workaround:

Create a new empty playlist, and drag the songs from the other playlist onto it. You should then be able to re-arrange them as you please (so long as the first column header is highlighted).

I find that I can reproduce the bug by selecting tracks and then choosing "New Playlist from Selected" in the file menu. I won't be able to drag songs around the resulting playlist no matter what I try.

[indigoimac]

Yes, Yes, seconded, thirded, w/e iTunes for Linux!!!! PLEASE!!! And I love the iTunes server idea(but only for mac and linux!!!)

Otherwise I would love to see a stripped down windows version, clean it up and drop some featues that we're suspecting for iTunes7, no FLAC, just lighten it up, it's a bit of a hog.

As for the Mac version, a revised visualizer(higher res, etc) and a whole bunch of the stuff already listed.

[fisherKing]

Originally Posted by Visnaut

I get this once in a while too for some reason, I think it's a new bug in iTunes 6. Here's my workaround:

Create a new empty playlist, and drag the songs from the other playlist onto it. You should then be able to re-arrange them as you please (so long as the first column header is highlighted).

I find that I can reproduce the bug by selecting tracks and then choosing "New Playlist from Selected" in the file menu. I won't be able to drag songs around the resulting playlist no matter what I try.

well i'll be damned..
thanx!

[dimmer]

The Airport Express can do it.

Nope, it can't, doesn't and won't. When you stream music to your APx the host Mac/PC does all the decoding and sends a very "simple" audio stream to the AirPort: otherwise your couldn't hear your Music Store tracks on wireless and your APx would need an MP3 decoding license which it doesn't have.

AOR, BTW, is not "Album Oriented Rock", it's "Adult Oriented Rock"--boring farty music for boring farty old people: think meatloaf, Bonnie Tyler, Yes, Deep Purple, Led Zepplin, Chas and Dave, Queen, Elton (gag me) John. Crimes against music that need their own Nuremberg trial and a gallows that can bear the weight of the "thick sliced duke" as he falls.

In my humble, 39 year old opinion of course.

[dimmer]

Thankfully, iTunes has a built in "Christian Rock" filter and will refuse to play it (or if it does, will insert backwards vocals saying "Jesus hates this music! Buy more "Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel" albums god-boy!" in a subliminal way.)

[selowitch]

Originally Posted by dimmer

AOR, BTW, is not "Album Oriented Rock", it's "Adult Oriented Rock"

Wrong. It is Album-Oriented Rock. Ask anyone in radio.

Originally Posted by dimmer

boring farty music for boring farty old people: think meatloaf, Bonnie Tyler, Yes, Deep Purple, Led Zepplin, Chas and Dave, Queen, Elton (gag me) John. Crimes against music that need their own Nuremberg trial and a gallows that can bear the weight of the "thick sliced duke" as he falls.

Well, you're entitled to your opinion. But dude, you're nuts! Perhaps the approach of middle age has heightened your sense of hostility toward old people.

[dimmer]

Dude:

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AOR can refer to any of the following:

* AOR is an abbreviation of Album-oriented rock (sometimes also Adult-oriented rock).
* AOR is the hull classification symbol for Auxiliary naval vessels classified as replenishment oilers. The term is used by both the US Navy and the Canadian Navy, the latter for the Protecteur-class.
* AOR is a U.S. military acronym for "Area of Responsibility", referring to the geographic region assigned to a strategic military command.
* AOR "Authority On Radio Communications", a manufacturer communications and scanning radio receivers.
* AoR is the abbreviation of "Address-of-Record", a canonical address by which a user is known in SIP.

Say it with me: my friends in radio know less than my good pal Dimmer. I shall never question him again. A lot of AOR is also AOR (and a lot of it is MOR: Male Oriented Rock). The original definition is Adult, the later one is Album as Album Oriented Rock really makes little sense (it was adoped as "adult" was seen as somehow insulting). Look it up in your Funk and Wagnells if you doubt me.

As for my diatribe against bad bland music, oh yes, that's pure personal opinion offered mainly for the humor point of view: if Elton rocks your socks off, just relax and enjoy it. Don't let anyone, ever, tell you what music is good, bad or indifferent. It's your lug-holes, pollute them at your leisure/pleasure!

Just don't say you have total respect for Annie Lennox, or I may have to set Half Man Half Biscuit on you.

[selowitch]

Originally Posted by dimmer

As for my diatribe against bad bland music, oh yes, that's pure personal opinion offered mainly for the humor point of view: if Elton rocks your socks off, just relax and enjoy it. Just don't say you have total respect for Annie Lennox, or I may have to set Half Man Half Biscuit on you.

LOL. Fair enough. But I love Annie Lennox and have loved her since the Eurythmics released In the Garden in 1981. My good friend actually invited her to his bar mitzvah and while she didn't show up, she did send a really nice note and an autographed picture of her and Dave Stewart.