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iTunes could be better
As a follow-up to my article claiming that iTunes is awesome I have to share my gripes with the product design.
1) "All (27 artists)" shouldn't scroll in the browser. It should always be at the top of the list as it is now, but it shouldn't scroll with all the other entries. It sucks to have to scroll down, pick the right artist from a compilation, select the compilation in the albums part of the explorer, then have to scroll up the artists list manually to hit "all" again.
iTunes in it's current form.
My suggestion, "all" at the top no matter what.
2) iTunes is great with the iPod when you have less music then capacity on the iPod, it sync's EVERYTHING. It is less perfect when you have more music in your iTunes library than space on your iPod. Automatic sync stops working. What does work is that you can sync specific playlists or you can sync completely manually.
Manual syncing sucks because it is too much work, so we are left with the playlist option.
this isn't too bad as iTunes has awesome smart playlists. I can define a playlist to the capacity that I want.
What it lacks is the ability to make a smart playlist with a size setting of "whatever space is left". I want to put all of my handmade playlists on the iPod at all times. These are smart plalists where I include all the songs with high ratings and traditional playlists to match certain moods and a traditional playlist where I inserted all my "must have" albums. Thus, to finish it off, I want a smart playlist which fills the remaining space on my iPod with random full albums.
you can't define the space "remainign space" and you can't do "random albums" at the moment. If they can fix this then I will be happy forever.
...or until I think of something else that I want like the ability for ratings to be saved in the id3v2 "popularimeter" field so the ratings can stay in the file instead of the proprietary database. I also want to see a flag for "live music" so I can add my 100's of live concerts to my database, and filter them out since they aren't albums per-se.
1) "All (27 artists)" shouldn't scroll in the browser. It should always be at the top of the list as it is now, but it shouldn't scroll with all the other entries. It sucks to have to scroll down, pick the right artist from a compilation, select the compilation in the albums part of the explorer, then have to scroll up the artists list manually to hit "all" again.
iTunes in it's current form.
My suggestion, "all" at the top no matter what.
2) iTunes is great with the iPod when you have less music then capacity on the iPod, it sync's EVERYTHING. It is less perfect when you have more music in your iTunes library than space on your iPod. Automatic sync stops working. What does work is that you can sync specific playlists or you can sync completely manually.
Manual syncing sucks because it is too much work, so we are left with the playlist option.
this isn't too bad as iTunes has awesome smart playlists. I can define a playlist to the capacity that I want.
What it lacks is the ability to make a smart playlist with a size setting of "whatever space is left". I want to put all of my handmade playlists on the iPod at all times. These are smart plalists where I include all the songs with high ratings and traditional playlists to match certain moods and a traditional playlist where I inserted all my "must have" albums. Thus, to finish it off, I want a smart playlist which fills the remaining space on my iPod with random full albums.
you can't define the space "remainign space" and you can't do "random albums" at the moment. If they can fix this then I will be happy forever.
...or until I think of something else that I want like the ability for ratings to be saved in the id3v2 "popularimeter" field so the ratings can stay in the file instead of the proprietary database. I also want to see a flag for "live music" so I can add my 100's of live concerts to my database, and filter them out since they aren't albums per-se.
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