A dedicated 'Composer' browsing column for classical music enthusiasts.

What I think Apple needs to do is to pull the iTS out of iT. The iTS would be a much more pleasing experience if it were in Safari. Like a normal web store. Buying things would automatically put them in iTunes, but the iTS would not be within iTunes. Then you could do all the usual browser type things, such as make a bookmark to an app or album or movie, and it would all work in a familiar way. That would also simplify iTunes.

See, now that's what I mean. iTunes is packed with useful features, but how easy are they to find?

He said a "browsing" column; the one you see at the top of the window when you display the browser. As it stands, you can only have genre, artist and album.

I think it needs work under the hood. With a library of nearly 45,000 tracks, it takes several seconds - on a 1G Mac Pro - to change anything in my library, even simply checking or unchecking a track.

Kirk

I would like to put to bed the arguments raging on various hifi fora regarding the quality of itunes as a music server. Its all about squeezeboxes at the moment because apparently it works and sounds better.

The appletv coupled with itunes is sort of a midfi solution.

More over apple need to pull itunes away from the mac, they need to create a NAS with itunes on it. for tose users not wanting mutliple computers on in order to listen to music.

itunes is vastly to complicated to non technical users. Think about it from a non user perspective, A good for instance, 'how do I burn a cd?'

'Well, firstly you have to create a playlist. Then when the playlist is created you have to click back in the libray then you have to find the music you want. you have to drag them into the playlist. No, no, the playlist has gone off the screen a bit, scroll down, yes, there, there on the side. The one you just made. Yep put it in there. now the next tune.

Now you have to click in the playlist you made. Click burn, yes, put a CD in now. What do you mean to many tunes. Oh right you put to many in, you have to drag some out now. No they won't be deleted....'

Etc Etc.

Its hardly 'just working'

My feeling is a lot of the crap regarding the pods and phones should be pulled an intergrated into the OS, and leave itunes as it was intended.

umm ... wrong and wrong.

You are talking about the normal columns ... I am talking about the 'Browse' columns, of which there are only three:
Genre, Artist, Album.

That's why I wrote "for classical music enthusiasts". For those whose classical collection consists of "x's Greatest Hits", this is obviously not an issue.