iTunes Wants

May 8, 2008

I may be able to do these already but am ignorant of the interface. If so, please correct me.

· On-the-fly playlists. I want to be able to right-click a song and say, "play this next" instead of seeking through the list after the current song finishes. Every other player on earth lets me do this; I'm fairly certain that iTunes does too. But I don't see any kind of "Now Playing" playlist that I can screw with.

· Better "last played" logic. If I listen to all but the last few seconds of the song, mark it as played. I may have just gotten tired of waiting for the player to finish the darn thing. Let's say that if you've played more than 75% of a track it's played.

· Album art feedback. If the connection to iTunes Music Store bombs, or the store doesn't have the album art for some reason, let me know. Right now, about one of three album art requests just disappears into a black hole. Should I try again later (bad connection) or am I stuck with a 200x200 copy from Wikipedia (they don't have it)? It can't be that hard to tell me.

· Same for the podcasts. Really... not even the "connecting... connected" feedback I get from Mozilla. Just the orange spinny thing that sometimes results in a downloaded podcast and sometimes doesn't.

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