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What's the most interesting new iTunes 7/Music Store feature?
1/1: What's the most interesting new iTunes 7/Music Store feature?
Other polls | 3,811 votes | 23 comments
Get Album Artwork
Okay, so where's the choice for the new "Get Album Artwork" function?
Get Album Artwork
I second this motion. "Get Album Artwork" is a great feature...though it's not perfect and can't find artwork for quite a few of my albums for some reason. In most cases, this is either my fault (erroneous album titles in my tags?) or the result of ITMS not having relatively rare albums "in stock."
Get Album Artwork
With so many hints about this, how did Rob miss this in the poll? :P
Get Album Artwork
Sigh. Added now. I blame our youngest, who is still learning the definition of "night," it seems. I've added it now, sorry to those who missed out on it...
Get Album Artwork
Thanks Rob, you're a star!
Get Album Artwork
But one of the best features of this new feature is that you can select multiple songs, then tell iTunes to fetch the artwork, and walk away or do something else while it gets all the available artwork for the selected songs.
Oooo Crashy
My favorite feature, is when I go to play a file and it crashes my system.
Oooo Crashy
Yea, I'm in the slow/crashy department.
Uh?
How come that I can just see the result but not vote myself?
Voting is on home page
RSS includes link to results :/
Uh?
You can enter your vote on the right of the page, at the bottom.
Oops
Oops, didn't see someone had answered already…
None of the above
Not much I like about iTunes 7.
Purchased iTunes tunes
I'm particularly enjoying the fact that my iPod will no longer play anything I have purchased from iTunes - old and new. They play in iTunes itself but not on the iPod. Nice feature!
Missing one important new feature
I think this poll is missing one new important feature in iTunes 7. Namely, the built-in ability to now sync your iPod contents to another authorized Mac.
I Love Gapless Playback...
FINALLY, I can listen to "The Wall" without reverting to the CDs. For the first time I've been able to listen to the entire album without gaps where they don't belong and without the need to change CD's midway through. The Beetles, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Bruce Springsteen and more classical works (Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, etc.) make use of blending one "track" into the next one. Now we can listen to them without reverting to the CDs or other trickery within iTunes.
So many choices
I think the gapless playback is the most useful, but least _interesting_, which is what this poll is asking. IMHO, gapless playback should have been there since version 1 (or at least version 4 when I imported The Wall and Dark Side of the Moon), so I see it as more of a bug fix than a feature.
It would be gapless playback, but...
Gapless playback doesn't really work on my 15" aluminum Powerbook G4, or it would definitely be my favorite feature -- I'm one of the myriad people who are experiencing weird "hiccups" between tracks that should work perfectly (like in an opera, say). Check out http://www.jeffreygrossman.com/GaplessNot.mp3 (154K MP3 file) for an example of how it mangles the ends of almost every track in my library that should work fine. (That's the end of one track into the next, recorded with my internal microphone; sorry for the poor quality, but it gets the point across -- you hear the final chord cut off?)
Both of those tracks are ripped as Apple Lossless in iTunes 6.0.4, and I've confirmed the audio in the files is still there, and correct (i.e., when I paste the two files into one big audio file, the transition is seamless). Obviously, you hear the hiccup as iTunes cuts out the very end of the first track -- it's AWFUL! This is not an isolated phenomenon: it it consistent throughout my library, especially evident in operas, where the action continues across tracks all the time. As many people have already noted, nothing changes whether or not you have checked the "Gapless Album" box (this CD currently has that box checked, but nothing changes with it unchecked). Crossfading is off. I've posted this on Apple's forums, and nobody's had any ideas. I tried reimporting an opera (twice: once replacing the tracks in the library, once duplicating them) and nothing happened. Any genuises here have an idea? Jeff
actually some of the new stuff...
seems kinda bloated_
All of them
I like all of them, but the one that strikes me the most is really the UI. I know it is somewhat futile, but the fact remains that iTunes (and Mail) have been previews of Aqua's improvement (well I like to see it that way, maybe you don't ;o) for a while now. Thus, it seems like such a bold move to iTunes UI might reflect an interesting change in 10.5 Leopard. Albeit I (as others) could be wrong and this change could have for single purpose to better match the Mac/PC versions of iTunes. But I'm no marketing person so I'm unsure how this would bring anything to iTunes/Apple's market share.
Visualizer
Wonder why the new visuals were not mentioned in the list. THEY ROCK.
Visualizer
I miss the button on the bottom of the window to turn the visualizer on. I know i can reach over to the keyboard and use the hotkey, but it's less convenient. I usually want to start the visualizer right after double-clicking on a song, so mousing to the button was handier. Dunno why they got rid of it, it's not like they're running out of room down there.
Amazing!
What is truly amazing is that so many people here can actually get all giddy about such unimportant stuff. If these things can get you excited and you feel that they are important to you, then you really do need to think about getting a life. It's actually sad how silly so many people have become when they think that gapless playback is very important to their lives. Very sad! |
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