My wish for the iPod

Ahhh... I always come up with ideas for things that product managers of my belongings could have implemented easily, but they never listen. -.-;; It's a good idea, really good idea actually, but sadly I doubt the makers of the iPod will ever catch word of this, or even give a crap if they do. They suck. :P

i have a concern when you buy a ipod the music you ownloaded to it does it have to be bought a the itunes music store what if you some music in your library imported can you download that to your ipod or do you just have to buy from itunes music store,

Great idea as well. I also like Chris Fenison's idea and mockup from his post/blog. Of course, you could also go a step further and add another contextual menu for Artist, Album and Genre to shuffle. I like the shuffle option, but it's all or nothing. Would be nice to shuffle the artist or album.

This is exactly what I've been talking about forever. I love my ipod, but there's one problem. It's not iTunes. The best way to fix this for me would be by adding context sensitive menus to the iPod. iTunes wins with me for music because of one simple fact. I can sort through organized material and find exactly what I'm looking for. iPod's sorting is great, but it doesn't compare with iTunes. Adding context sensitivity (basically and iPod right click function) would do so much for the player.

What I want added is metadata for last time skipped and number of times skipped. This would allow me to setup smart playlists with things like if last time skipped is within last month or number of times skipped is > than number of times played keep out of my playlist.

I proposed something similar at http://blog.nonlinearmatters.com/interface/my-dream-ipod/ basically some way to view similar songs (from rating, genre, library) or edit more than the rating (genres, mainly). and smooth navigation, like partymix (the selected song starts AFTER the current song) i assume it's better to wait till podzilla gets sturdy and do it ourselves... :-(

I was thinking the exact same thing Friday afternoon on my 6 1/2 hour train ride. I hope they include a function like that in the next generation.

I've openly wished for stuff like this on my blog before, except the difference there is, nobody reads mine. :) Plus a few other ideas... http://www.unithom.com/yafb/?p=4

THERE IS A SOLUTION! I am using an Alpine head unit in my car together with its iPod interface - ipod in the glove box, I control everything from the head unit. The randomizing is done by the Alpine h/u. So when I'm in "mix" mode (=random) and decide to listen to the whole album I just press the MIX button and ta-da! It continues playing but no more shuffling. I really recommend Alpine's solution, a few quirks aside (it's a tad slow to scroll through the entire artist list) it works perfectly. Charges the ipod too. No messing with wires hanging down the dashboard and noisy FM transmitters. The cheapest h/u that is compatible costs around $200, plus $99 for the interface (KCA-420i). Greg

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