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Originally Posted by hmurchison
I'm going on record here and now by saying iTunes 8 is going to be a major new version. It may even be rewritten to the point of being considered a new platform. It could even be rebranded.
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I live in hope!
Seriously, this is a great list.
I think the server version idea is good and perhaps the iTunes team could take a leaf out of the Aperture 1.5 team's approach with regard to effective library management.
Organsational structure is a pet peeve of mine too - and I know I'm not alone. Further to your concerns, why do movie trailers show up as podcasts? And why can't I move an isolated "podcast" video clip out of the movies section and into its home in the Podcast section?
I also like your idea about maintaining an Apple Lossless library and then having on the fly AAC encoding for iPods ... although if you filled, for example, a 20GB iPod with music that needed to be encoded it would still take a while. For my shuffle I don't mind the wait, but a fully loaded iPod might be a different story.
Better editing of metadata would be a welcome addition as too the the ability to find and download lyrics automatically, which shouldn't be that much of a challenge to the code monkeys at Apple.
Good stuff - I hope
iTunes *insert more apt name here* evolves along these lines.