Why doesn't Apple add obvious features to iTunes?
man, you have NO IDEA how much i'm thankful to you! this is about the Album Art catcher you posted in your blog! Now my album arts are the original ones and not to mention hi-res too. Thanks a mucho, amigo! ![]()
I wish it would put albums by a particular artist in chronological order.
Send a "strongly worded" letter to Apple, and maybe they'll comply
.
Nice job on this, though. Some interesting points.
-NC
ALBUM ART: For those who use Konfabulator, there is an awesome widget called iTunes Companion, which can be found here.
What is great about the widget is, that it will automatically look up album art for the currently playing song, and can export the art not only to the current track, but to the entire album as well. If it can't find the art, the widget will display no album art in the cd case, and if you click it it will do a Google Image Search for the art. You can then drag and drop the art right onto the widget, which will then update your tracks. What is great is that this is entirely automated. If you leave the widget running, and tracks that don't have art start to play, they will be updated with art. (NOTE: If you use this, make sure to go through the options. Also check "Use Large Album Art" to get the large, higher quality artwork)
The major things that bug me in iTunes:
1) No option to set folder and file naming schemes when ripping cds. This is keeping me from using iTunes to rip my music. I'd also like to be able to disable the damn "Compilations" it does.
2) No ability to look up CDDB info for tracks on the computer.
3) Memory usage.
4) No auto-downloading of album art. Yes the above widget is great, but I don't always keep Konfabulator running, so I have to specifically open it for this.
Because of this I use LAME and EAC to rip tracks, and MusicBrainz for tagging improperly tagged files. Not a huge deal, but a slight inconvenience.
However it's still a great product. What I've come to notice though, is that all 1st party Apple software on the Mac even is pretty feature limited. Safari, iChat, iPhoto, etc. are great programs, but when compared to 3rd party apps of the same nature, the feature sets and customization options are pretty limited.
Aqua-Soft Forums