The ever-growing iTunes basket

@dan: bahaha

it should be called iConsume

I agree - I really wanted a rewrite and something massive with iTunes 10. I used to use a lot of Apple's feedback surveys when I had ideas about how to make it better. You can recommend changes or even feature requests for future versions of iTunes.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

I find iTunes to be excellent. I spend almost all day in it playing music, use it to browse the store, sync my iPhone etc. and have no complaints at all. Hasn't once crashed outright in the way that Safari and even the Finder (relatively) frequently do. I am also finding the latest version to be an improvement in terms of speed when moving around within the app. It was fine before, though. I don't see how they could do a much better job.

I have a fairly sizeable library w/ songs encoded at 256kbp/s AAC, fair few apps, iPhone, few TV shows, music videos etc. on a year old Macbook Pro, and I would class it as being extremely fast. Quite surprised by the reaction to this story.

iTunes is pretty terrible software, at least on Windows. I wonder how many Windows users steer clear of Macs because they judge them based on how bad iTunes is.

It's also the software that time forgot. For instance, if I want to back up my library, it demands I insert a blank disk. I've got a USB hard drive, which are dirt cheap these days. Not acceptable. What is this, 1999?

It needs a complete rewrite and a rethought interface.

I'm still on iTunes 9, because 10 introduces even more crap I don't want (Ping, most notably) and iTunes already is my biggest source of intermittent spinning beachballs.

I have a 120 gig library and around 50 apps, but I'm sure that's modest or at least average in these times. iTunes feels heavy and bloated. I would love a *real*, performance enhancing update.

But all Apple does is add stuff to it, not rethink the program. Why not create a plugin approach? Anyone tried adding flac or other obscure format support to iTunes? It can be done but it's complicated.

I would also love to be able to *really* uninstall functionality, like Ping for instance.

Not holding my breath, though.

Itunes should move online, so it can be device independent.

It should keep track of all your media and apps, and show which files are physically stored on which devices at any one time.

Files like apps and songs could be re-downloaded to any of your devices at any time as Apple has its own copy of all of them anyway.

I say, so what? iTunes has always worked for me, starts up and shuts fine, plays music and videos fine, browse the store fine, syncs my iPods and phones without a problem, etc Big deal if it has plenty more features than originally intended, it works. I would like to see much more features that should be included. They have a way to go yet.

I also would like to see some kind of a rebirth of itunes.
Actually I would like to see my media getting more integrated OS X itself together with a light weight itunes application to organize and play them, if a dedicated application should be needed at all.
Syncing options for my iOS devices should be set in the preferences pane.And how great were these good old days, when I just had to hit the iSync-icon in the menubar to get my devices synced, without starting up itunes and iphoto etc....
Separation of the music and appstore would also be welcomed in my eyes.

Ok, what I want is this

1 Flac or Alac downloads at 24bit/96kHz
2 Separate
- Music player,
- App store,
- Music and Movie store, purchase and tokens for streaming
- Movie player.
3 Separate sync, using WiFi, no wires!

Complete alignment of iTunes functionality on all devices, Macs, iPod, iPad...