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Will Apple add Integrate Spotlight into iTunes?
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(Admin: perhaps this topic is better suited for apps, but since it is also about fundamental OS technologies I post here)
iTunes hasn't seen a significant upgrade (much less major re-working) for quite some time now, and one wonders what Apple might be up to.
do people have any thoughts on whether Apple might be integrating new core OS technologies into a future version of iTunes, e.g. Spotlight and/or CoreData? It seems these two techs at least were designed with apps like iTunes in mind...
Then again a counter argument might be that Apple wishes iTunes to work on a broad array of platforms (e.g. pre-Tiger OSX, and Windows), so it might not want to build in anything Tiger-specific...
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The search facilities in iTunes are already sufficient. In fact according to Steve the impetus behind Spotlight was iTunes. There really is no need to add spotlight technology to iTunes. The iapp integration is already good enough that you can playback files from your iTunes library from within iPhoto etc. Core Data is a API for handling persistent stores(database like). It wouldn't bring anything to the table that iTunes doesn't already have. I think Apple will tweak iTunes 5.0 with a little Tiger specific code but the end result shouldn't be a massive change.
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iTunes is already integrated into spotlight. Why would you want to search other files in iTunes? 
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Well I'd love to see my smart playlist refresh on the fly, like smart folders works on Tiger. I don't like very much the idea of delete the songs in a smart playlist to have it recreated.... I'd just like it to be refreshed every time i click on it.
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Join Date: May 2001
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well the smart playlists do this exact thing. make a playlist for songs only with minimum 4 stars, some songs appear, go to you library, choose a song with less than 4 stars, edit rating to 4 or 5 - bingo! playlist updated. wtf
why not - once - try before you go ask? i wonder...
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As others have said: This is pointless. The whole clue about iTunes is that it displays all (or most) of the metadata an MP3 file (or AAC) carries. iTunes basically is an UI for ID3 tags, Spotlight couldn't really improve anything here. Now if you ask about more elaborate tags (like different genres for one song), that's something different...
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