A Line Dropped By A Ghost

New podcast has been created. Intune with Andy Collins.

Check it out at: http://www.ghostline.com.au/intune.

It is a gig guide for Tassie live music scene.

Ok I procrastinated a bit today with the brilliant idea of installing a wiki on (Cool) Shite for show notes and popular culture articles. I went back to work and found myself drawn back every hour to play with it and add articles and try things out.

If you have any knowledge of popular culture of any sort be it film, tv, manga, anime, cosplay, anything at all, head over to the wiki and start adding to the knowledge base.

Ok, as a lot of my friends know, I use iTunes to manage a fairly big database of music (33,000+ songs). I have sent Apple feedback on how to improve their application that I love so much. I have been polite and have advocated that many of my friends should make the switch.

Now I really have had enough. No I ain’t ditching iTunes due to the fact I have put so much time and effort into my library, but I think it gives me the right to bitch.

1. Apple start realizing that not all albums are individual songs… haven’t you heard some of the great classic albums like Pink Floyd’s Darkside of the Moon? It is about time we got the option on iTunes and our iPods to have gapless track progression. I mean it is really annoying listening to these albums with a half second audio gap between tracks. And no, I ain’t importing them as one big track and the fade with 0 seconds trick is just poor… come on other older mp3 players can do this, why can’t you?
2. Allow us to easily import bookmarkable files, like audio books. I have over 40 gig of mp3 audiobooks that I would love to be in ACC Bookmarkable format, but the time to do it with Automator is going to be ridiculous.
3. Allow other formats like wma, ogg, flac etc to be played in iTunes and the iPod. I personally don’t want to use these formats, but it would be handy when I come across these files.
4. Give iTunes on the PC a full API so that developers can make cool and useful apps like they have done on the mac using applescript.
5. Get iTunes Music Store open in Australia
6. Give us an advanced smart playlist creator. I would like to have the “and” and “or” functionality.. it really is a must for a library as big as mine.
7. Stop relying on market dominance to push your ideas, and actually listen to your customer base, because once something better comes out there is going to be an exodus.
8. Develop iTunes to handle libraries automatically over multiple disks and volumes. I can tell you that managing over 400gig of audio by and is a little stupid and time comsuming.
9. Get your heads out of your arses and go from have a good product to a great product.

Well I know the software is free and all, but hey as a poweruser and someone that have advocated the greatness in the big apple, I deserve the rant. Not that Apple cares…