iTunes gets on my tits

[tuckeratlarge]

Dear Apple,

Surely it is not beyond the realms of possibility or programmatically impossible to let people with multiple iPods, iPod Touches and/or iPhones, to use different libraries easily.

Instead of the rather stupid faffing about with pressing shift whilst clicking on the iTunes icon then having to search for the relevant library files - which is a ball ache - why can we not have a button or drop down with choices as to which library we want to use?

Even better, as soon as you plug in your iWhatever, which as we all know have their own unique ID - for DRM purposes I suspect, iTunes just automatically selects which library is relevent to that device.

I have over the last few weeks become accustomed to your idiosyncratic software, which still doesn't have a 'stop button' - pretty much every other music player/software I have used does so why not you, is that not 'Apple' enough for you?

Please include this feature in future releases.

As with all things Apple - Great Hardware, crap software.

Hopefully

//tucker

[Corris Veteran]

I would agree on the multiple libraries, I know people who have a family PC with everything on they use for their iPods, etc.

It should really be sorted.

Though one question, why do you need a stop button if the pause button does essentially the same?

I understand the need for devices that require user input for changing media, say, a DVD player, but surely with digital music having a stop and pause button is useless?

[Smashing Pumpkin]

The need for a stop button is kind of psychological I think in a way, but at the same time sometimes it's useful to stop a song and then restart from the beginning. If someone walks in when you're listening to a song and they spoil it for you, you can press stop and then press play when they've gone, rather than pause, rewind, play... I guess!?

[Corris Veteran]

The need for a stop button is kind of psychological I think in a way, but at the same time sometimes it's useful to stop a song and then restart from the beginning. If someone walks in when you're listening to a song and they spoil it for you, you can press stop and then press play when they've gone, rather than pause, rewind, play... I guess!?

Makes sense, like traffic lights who's buttons don't do anything since they are all timed anyway, lol.

But in iTunes there is three buttons, Previous, Pause and Next. Hitting Previous will do what you just said, it will start the song playing from the beginning, unless its in the first few seconds at which point it will go back a song.

[PyX]

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

[KeeperOfThePizza]

Maybe you should go Windows, or if that is insulting then maybe find a third party application like Banshee.. I dont flipping know.

[Smashing Pumpkin]

But in iTunes there is three buttons, Previous, Pause and Next. Hitting Previous will do what you just said, it will start the song playing from the beginning, unless its in the first few seconds at which point it will go back a song.

Ahh no what I meant was sort of in the rare situation where for instance, you're enjoying a song, someone walks in ruins it has a conversation with you and after the conversation you want to restart, it's best to go Stop > Play.

Whereas just hitting Previous would restart the song in their presence.

Also does iTunes do videos? If so I can see this being good for videos too for some reason, maybe force of habit.

[Unknown_97784568745]

Though one question, why do you need a stop button if the pause button does essentially the same?

I understand the need for devices that require user input for changing media, say, a DVD player, but surely with digital music having a stop and pause button is useless?

I need a stop button on foobar, otherwise it would not release the soundcard (because I'm using WASAPI exclusive mode).

But I guess that's not related to iTunes... :p

[jebus197]

Apple 'think diferent!' More often than not, seemily mostly for the sake of it.

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

I'd love to be able to control iTunes from a set of ######.

ps. I use MediaMonkey, it's awesome.

[acnpt]

I'd love to be able to control iTunes from a set of ######.

:laugh: Now that would be funny.

[TogaForComfort]

I to which it could be more inteligent in manging multiple devices but Apple have decided that one user will have their own account and one iPod.

I found the same issues and come up with the following solutions:

1. Set up a user account for each person that has a device, then they all have their own libraries.

You could store all of the music in a shared folder then there would be no permissions issues and no doubling up of music.

2. Set up playlists for each iPod. Connect an iPod and set it to only sync it's specific playlist

[Shadrack]

Yeah, I'd just sync the iPod with a specific playlist as Toga suggested. I can't think of any music players that actually support multiple libraries that sync with multiple devices as you have suggested.

I can also think of a number of features I'd prefer to see before anything you are suggesting gets implemented.

1. Backup and restore to HD or USB HD instead of DVD-Rs. Drives me nuts how when I reinstall iTunes I pretty much lose all my play history.

2. Actually tag files when I change information, not just the database file. That is super annoying, again because when I reinstall iTunes or move my music to a new machine all my genera changes etc. are lost.

[Growled Member]

iTunes is so annoying in so many ways.

[Astra.Xtreme]

Holding shift to select a new library really isn't that hard...

My sisters, whom are completely computer illiterate, even have it figured out.

[Phantom Helix]

You guys just don't understand how to use it, having a stop button is redundant and not necessary, you can do exactly what a stop button would with the pause button,

in fact there is a stop button you just don't know how to see it, click on music in the sidebar, play a song now pause it, then click on videos or something else in the sidebar, look up and what used to be a pause button is now a stop button.

I do not see the need for multiple libraries when you can sync a particular device to a playlist, a playlist is a library within a library duh!

restarting the song by clicking pause and then the previous button is the same as clicking stop and then play, both 2 clicks what is the difference?

[bbfc_uk]

restarting the song by clicking pause and then the previous button is the same as clicking stop and then play, both 2 clicks what is the difference?

Took the words right out of my mouth. Stop then Play, Pause then Previous - what's the difference?!

[tuckeratlarge]

Took the words right out of my mouth. Stop then Play, Pause then Previous - what's the difference?!

That's assuming people know that combo. A stop button is easier to understand. I have it on Winamp and VLC, I just wanted it on iTunes for 'my' easy of use.

Each to their own.

[Growled Member]

Holding shift to select a new library really isn't that hard...

How many average users know you can even do that? Why not make it simpler?

[jebus197]

Think different! (Even if doing so is often utterly pointless).

[Elliott]

How many average users know you can even do that? Why not make it simpler?

How many average users have multiple libraries?

[tuckeratlarge]

How many average users have multiple libraries?

It's not necessarily that people have multiple libraries as multiple ipods. I only knew about libraries through googling. **** poor multiple ipod implementation by apple if you ask me.

[Madoshi]

Winamp has a stop button

i use it all the time

[Subject Delta]

How many average users have multiple libraries?

1 family computer, multiple iDevices... sounds like a plausible scenario to me.