Comments on: My favorite features from iTunes 7 http://illyana.com/2006/09/13/my-favorite-features-from-itunes-7/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:31:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Dave http://illyana.com/2006/09/13/my-favorite-features-from-itunes-7/#comment-693 Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:46:01 +0000 http://illyana.com/2006/09/13/my-favorite-features-from-itunes-7/#comment-693 While it's utterly funky that WMP 11 can automatically update your MP3 and WMA tags from the web, it's got quite a few track names wrong in my collection, which is a drag. Often, an album can have several different versions for different markets with varying album art and track listings and there's not a lot to ensure that WMP will pick the right one. It needs a little more interactivity, perhaps some sort of a to-do notification pane saying "Do you want to go through a few of these albums for which we (think we) have the right album details?". While it’s utterly funky that WMP 11 can automatically update your MP3 and WMA tags from the web, it’s got quite a few track names wrong in my collection, which is a drag. Often, an album can have several different versions for different markets with varying album art and track listings and there’s not a lot to ensure that WMP will pick the right one.

It needs a little more interactivity, perhaps some sort of a to-do notification pane saying “Do you want to go through a few of these albums for which we (think we) have the right album details?”.

]]> by: Mal http://illyana.com/2006/09/13/my-favorite-features-from-itunes-7/#comment-639 Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:37:25 +0000 http://illyana.com/2006/09/13/my-favorite-features-from-itunes-7/#comment-639 Aye, it's decent, but going nowhere fast, which I blame on it being OpenStep based and WindowMaker orientated. This mean's it's relatively free for NeXTSteps developers, not Cocoa devs, and it's the Cocoa devs who still have day jobs. Favoring WindowMaker means that, like Swing, they are at a serious disadvantage on Windows. I can't even speculate how iTunes got away with it. Aye, it’s decent, but going nowhere fast, which I blame on it being OpenStep based and WindowMaker orientated. This mean’s it’s relatively free for NeXTSteps developers, not Cocoa devs, and it’s the Cocoa devs who still have day jobs. Favoring WindowMaker means that, like Swing, they are at a serious disadvantage on Windows. I can’t even speculate how iTunes got away with it.

]]> by: Aidan Kehoe http://illyana.com/2006/09/13/my-favorite-features-from-itunes-7/#comment-638 Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:12:36 +0000 http://illyana.com/2006/09/13/my-favorite-features-from-itunes-7/#comment-638 <i>An even more interesting scenario is what might happen if 3rd party Mac developers had a cross platform Cocoa framework. Would their apps be successful on Windows? Could Mac developers eventually become the most important developer group on Windows? Would the world be a better place?</i> See <a href="http://www.gnustep.org/" rel="nofollow">GNUStep</a> which has been trying to do that for over a decade, without much success. An even more interesting scenario is what might happen if 3rd party Mac developers had a cross platform Cocoa framework. Would their apps be successful on Windows? Could Mac developers eventually become the most important developer group on Windows? Would the world be a better place?

See GNUStep which has been trying to do that for over a decade, without much success.

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