The new version of iTunes is fresh from the press, and warming my hard drive. As good as things might get, there’s still a lot I’m looking for, and it’s mostly simple stuff.
Full song preview
Let me play the whole song once or twice from the store to make a purchase decision. 30 seconds poorly chosen isn’t enough to tell me if I want the song, or even if it’s the song I’m looking for. I can just type the song title to see it on YouTube anyways (which links me back to iTunes to buy the song).
Consistent naming of items
I'm sick and freaking tired of dealing with “Tegan and Sara” vs “Tegan & Sara”. Throw some quality control at the problem. Also see my
tweet on Top Gear.
Cross Country Linking
If
Chris Shiflett tells me to buy a song, I'm not going to bicker about, I'm going to buy it. Likely case: I like it, and it gets a lot of play, along with other stuff from the artist. Worst Case: I’ve lost less than I tip on a poorly made drink at a dive bar. Since he's in the United States, and I use a Canadian iTunes account this can;t work. There's searching and cross matching. If it's available just make the link work.
Do that crazy "what song is that" thing and let me buy them
If I hear a great song in House (quite common), make it easy for me to find out what song that was, and buy it. License, buy, whatever, one of those song match companies and make my life easier.
Don't go posting comments saying it’s easy to find out what songs are in House, it’s not. It used to be, but then they revamped the stupid website removing the one thing I wanted, and confused the hell out of navigation since some links are show based, while others are network based. It’s dumb. Usability is Crap. The design by committee team should be shot.
Let me treat my MacBook Air like an iPod
The hard drive is tiny, I can’t shove my entire music, video, and tv show library on there, it wont fit. Let me mount it like an iPod and throw stuff over without manually dragging in Finder. This new Home Sharing thing makes it marginally better, but only marginally.
Let me store some content on a different drive
I’ve bought a fair number of shows using iTunes, I’d rather not store them on my primary drive. Make it easy for me to move them off using soft links (okay), or through some folder management (best!).
