I love my iPod, and I use iTunes several times a day to manage my songs and podcasts, as well as my iPod. However, its far from a perfect product. Below is my list of ways iTunes could be improved…
- Video Filter - I wish iTunes had a filter to let me seperate video podcasts from audio podcasts. I only have a Nano, I can only sync audio podcasts and I have a playlist to select randomly 7 podcasts I can chuck on my iPod. It makes it a bit crappy if half of the random ‘casts are video because I end up with only 3 or 4 podcasts on my iPod!
- Profiles - I use my iPod in 3 or 4 scenarios: in my car, on the commuter coach, at home or general walking around. I wish iTunes would let me set up profiles for each of these scenarios, which contained my sync details such as playlists, podcasts, etc. so I can easily switch between them when I want rather than have to set them up each time. For example, in the car I listen mostly to music, especially rock and electronic type music. I have no need for contacts or calendar syncing, and I might want one or two podcasts just in case. However, on the coach I want more relaxing music and all my podcasts, plus calendar and contacts.
- Better Chapter View - I wish it provided a better view of podcast chapters, rather than from a menu. I want thumbnails, chapter lengths, the ability to play a podcast but eliminate certain chapters like a playlist.
- Auto Auto-Delete - When I subscribe to a podcast, I have to right-click on each feed to turn on Auto Delete, so it deletes episodes once I have listened to them. There should be an option to have new subscriptions set to auto delete automatically.
- Hidden Track Analysis - Some albums have “hidden” tracks. Usually this is on the end of the last track of an album, after several minutes of silence. I wish there was an option in iTunes to analyse these tracks and split them apart, removing the silence and spitting out two seperate tracks. I don’t want a 27 minute track with only 8 minutes of music!
- RSS Reader - Slightly unrelated, but I wish there was an easy way to send RSS (textual) feeds to my iPod via iTunes. I subscribe to a number of feeds and it would be great if I could catch up on these offline via my iPod.
If anyone can think of any others, please leave a comment!!!
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Your missing out on a big one…. TV show, Collapsable list mode!
I have 20 odd tv show 1-3 season each but I have to scan through every item in album list view, if I could collapse the series/seasons I have seen already then it’ll all be a bit neater.