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dfiler
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Pittsburgh
 
2007-07-19, 09:21

Cocoa is great. But it normally isn't logical to rewrite a mature app unless there are serious issues with the code base. The amount of time and money spent rewriting would more than outweigh any potential gains in architectural flexibility and maintainability. The same can be said for the ease of development vs introduction of bugs during a rewrite.

On top of that, making an App cocoa really doesn't have anything to do with using standard widgets. Standard or custom widgets can be used no matter whether cocoa or carbon. If anything, it is easier to create custom widgets with cocoa.

So what am I hoping for in iTunes 8?

I would love to see video playback and library management improved. iTunes could easily handle video as well as it does audio. The two require nearly identical interfaces but video needs slightly different tags for more intuitive browsing.

Oh, and switch to browsing by album artist rather than artist. (iTunes and iPod) Then we wouldn't have so many duplicate entries for artists which "feature" other artists on each of their tracks.
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