Subscribe via RSSDear Apple, August 1
I love love love your products. I know that you over price a lot of your products, and sometimes that bothers me, but I really do enjoy your products. I've talked about getting a MacBook Pro before. I own an iPod Touch and an iMac. However, there is a certain thing that I hope you add to the iPod line soon. Play counts.
I've had my iPod Touch since last August and have absolutely loved it. Besides the fact that I bought it weeks before the second generation came out, I still can't find much wrong with it. If I get kicked off the computer, I still have some method of getting on the computer without resorting to my PC. It gives me updates on my email quickly. Not to mention the lovely looking UI of it! It's just a shame that Apple hasn't put in play counts on the iPod.
I find it very interesting to see which songs I listen to very often. Some nights I'll just sit here and listen to the same song on repeat for hours and get its play count up 20-50 times. Now obviously the songs which are my current favorites will have a higher play count than those which came with an album I just downloaded for a handful of songs.
Now, these play counts are only recorded under my account in iTunes on my iMac. I would love my iPod even more if Apple added the syncing ability for play counts. I don't know much about how the iPods are programmed or anything, but it doesn't seem like it would be a lot of work to sync the play counts and increment them on the iPod.
The only glitch I can see — which might be causing Apple to not add this feature — is that what happens if the play counts changes on both the computer and the iPod from the time of sync? Which of the play counts would override the other? I came up with a solution that I think could work, but would require some extra file reading/writing:
- Before a sync create a play count counter file with the play counts of each of the songs.
- Take the difference between the computer's play counts and the file and add those to the iPod's play counts and vice versa for the iPod's.
Sincerely,
Vasili
Unless thousands of people want this feature to be added, I don't see Apple adding it anytime in the future. I guess it doesn't hurt to express your feelings, does it? Especially when something might happen? :3
If you have an iPod, do you have any features that you would like to add? If you don't have an iPod, what reasons do you have for not owning one?
I don't own an iPod and the reason's simple. I'm waiting to buy an iPhone instead :D
It's quite easy, I require freedom. iPod can't give me the freedom to use my music player the way I want, so I won't use it. And considering that all I want to do with my player is to listen to music, my creative stone makes it perfectly, so why would I waste money something I really don't need.
I just sold my iPhone, they're not as great as everyone thinks. I also sold my iPod, haha. I've decided to use just a small mp3 player, it's all I need. There aren't any features I would have added, oh well.
From both the major updates (2.0 and 3.0) for iPod Touch, I was very disappointed to see that we STILL can't use custom EQ. I fudge around with custom EQ's in iTunes all of the time and when I go to listen to the songs on my iPod they just don't sound as awesome. D:
I'm also waiting to get an iPhone. :P When I can get it through T-Mobile or Verizon/Alltel whatever. I hear Apple will start dealing iPhone through other networks like them soon/someday. :D
I wish they could display the play counts on the iPod. That would make me happy. I tend to engineer my play counts, so it's nice to know how many plays each song has when I'm OFF my computer.
I don't care about play counts on my iPod :p iTunes has it, and that's enough for me!
My only problem with my iPod Touch is that it just doesn't have enough space for all my music, videos, and apps. But that's not exactly a feature problem.