I would also like a facility where you could set column widths instead go auto or guess work. Would make the interface more friendly.

http://iuseapple.com/blog/apple-how-to/beginner-os-x/2008/09/14/step-by-step-guide-to-whats-new-in-itunes-8/

i also want apple to make a color change option for itunes. staring at all that gray gets boring after a while.

itunes should also have support for deleting types of genre’s my list is over flowing and i can’t do anything about it.

oh and apple software update is really ****ing slow

thank you, that is all

It takes forever to start, close and synch; the scrolling has so much lag it’s almost unusable; and the new grid display is absolutely painful to use.

I mean come on, this is the EIGHTH version of iTunes! Surely we could expect performance to remain the same, and certainly not go to crap.

There is no way I’m updating my iPhone’s firmware this week. I’ve been burned too many times at this point and will just wait and see for a while.

When you connect iPod, iTunes pops up automatically (thanks to those background processes) and starts downloading podcasts. But, at the same time iTunes starts to SYNC old podcasts to the iPod. So, when you EJECT iPod the episodes of podcasts you actually have are OLD since the newer ones are still downloading. You will have OLD episodes even when all episodes have finished downloaded, unless you manually SYNC again just before EJECTing.

Apple tried to sort of fix this since last few iTunes versions by automatically SYNC-ing iPod once again right when you EJECT it. This however takes a long time if you have many podcasts (I sync about 20 to 30 podcasts daily and get around to listening at least some of them).

HERE’s THE WISH: Automatically sync a podcast as soon as each podcast finishes downloading. That way, iPod can be EJECTED instantaneously.

A photo organizer. Yeah. While we’re at it, why not a button that makes me Caramel Macchiattos, or one that activates a satellite to scratch my itch from outer space. Or how about a menu function that reverses the rotation of the earth?

I don’t understand why people want to continually clutter iTunes with things that it was never meant to do, when there are perfectly good programs out there that already do those things (iPhoto / Picasa). iTunes should stick to what it’s good at, and what it’s designed for. The more crap you pile in there the less smoothly the program will run (and it will hog more resources).

I just wish they would strip out some of the bloat, use a decent database backend and add some support for huge libraries.

I would love a decent duplicate finder but the current 3rd party software is not up to the task.

I loved the idea about having iTunes running as a server and letting client machines rip data to the library. That would be genius but I’m sure the RIAA wouldn’t like all that shared music!

(Bzzzzzzz)

Ps. My mac has media keys, just like PCs have :-)

Oh, and if you could do it. Please make iTunes in a modular design? That would make iTune lighter!

Speaking for the mac community, you are a fucking retard; Apple may not have [i]had[/i] to have released iTunes on Windows-based PCs, but it should have at least done a bloody half decent job. You would bitch at Microsoft for releasing hideously inferior products on OS X (such as WMP, Office to name a couple), and Windows users have the same license to do so. Jesus. Wake your ass up from your little fanboy world; Apple are not perfect. I love my macs and everything, but they are expensive, unupgradeable unless you wanna get a mortgage for that mac pro, they are too noncey and annoying to work with, allowing very few developers to want to even bother making software for them. And before you bitch about no viruses, stability, rant rant etc, I know that, but it doesn’t excuse their shortcomings. Good God. I know that’s an old post, but I was so incensed by seeing it! :D

1) iPod shuffle-like loading control for iPods and iPhones. by this I mean being able to set a size limit and have it fill that space with randomply selected items based on rating, genre, artist, etc. Further, assign this space as a dynamic range, and allow one type of file to take priority over others. For example, 8GB iPod: let me set 2-6GB for music, 0-4GB for video, 0-2GB for photos, allways leave 0.5GB free, now, make applications have the highest priority, follwed by pdcasts, then video, then music. If I download a lot of video files, it will shrink my music available until I watch them. I have 150GB of stuff, most of it rated and tagged, and I do NOT have the time to manually build playlists each time I want to change what’s on my iPhone. I want this to be AUTOMATIC!

2) Better identification of duplicate files. Nuff siad.

3) Another option other than the simple mini-player. Something between that and full-blown iTunes, giving me access to rate and tag songs without having to open iTunes fully.

4) Individual rules for podcasts. I want to keep just the current episode of some, whether watched or not, and ALL eposides of others. I also want them to load more intelligently into the iPod with similar per-podcast controlls.

5) Easy way to force iTunes to attempt auto-tagging of songs. Sort by incomplete get-info and auto identify music.

6) Allow a docked iPod or iPhone to controll iTunes without bringing iTunes to the foreground.

7) intelligent backup: Let me back up ALL my stuff, only what’s downloaded, or somewhere inbetween. Also, tag files as having been backed up (and let me clear that) so I can do a full backup now, and then periodically only what’s new, but restore the whole set from DVD or hard disk one one shot later if I have a crash

8) Photo integration with Windows. Let iTunes control how, what, and when photos in my iPhone are copied to the PC, and let me manage them inside iTunes if I prefer. Better yet, why not just release iPhoto for Windoes? I’d be HAPPY to pay $39 for it!

9) Let me rip downloaded videos to DVD already!!!!!

10) Individual folder control, not just one big data store. I have several partitions, and I want video on one, music on another if I feel like it. Actually, I really want the video on an external HDD for portability since I cant rip to DVD… (fix that and I might not need this item)

11) store song ratings in the info header as well as the database. If I move my stuff to a new PC, I don’t want to have to reset all that data, and I may or may not want to copy the iTunes database (or it might get corrupt, that’s happened to me once already) This also helps if I load files into another player.

12) Support more than 1 Ipod/iPhone, etc independently, storing preferences for each device independently. Also, let me use that device on more than 1 machine, provided the username for iTunes is the same on both machines. Everytime I plug in at work, it askes me to erase my iPhone’s storage, and I can’t play what’s on my iPhone on the work PC’s speakers (headset). I don;t care if it lets me copy it to that machine or not (prefered if it would, but I know there’s legal issues with that), but I do want to be able to ACCESS that stuff, including watching video podcasts on my nice 20″ screen at work when I’m taking lunch!