A survey published by Apple today could possibly reveal features coming up in the next revision of iTunes. It mentions features such as “a rewards program if you buy more”, “ability to view what my friends wish they could buy”, “ability to view what my friends are listening to now (with their permission)’, “ability to view my friends’ playlists (with their permission)”, “ability to view my friends’ recent purchases (with their permission)” and “ability to view my friends’ favorite artists (with their permission)”. It looks like Apple is trying to make the iTunes Store more social. Also, it mentions how you would feel about Apple adding more movies and T.V. shows to the UK iTunes Store, at last! Maybe this will be previewed at WWDC?
Update: It also mentions about Apple possibly replacing lost songs through a maintenance agreement, as we reported last November.
August 5th, 2006 at 4:58 pm
The latest iTunes is 6.0.5 on Mac OS X 10.4.7 and cannot select it from the list above.
There is an essential feature missing on iTunes on Mac OS X: the possibility to RESUME playback on the song that you left last time you quit iTunes on Mac, rebooted or shut down the Mac. That is very useful to listen from head to tail long playlists and was present on the application from where iTunes was developed (SoundJam MP 2.5.3) back in year 2000.
I have been requesting this essential feature for ages since iTunes 1.0, yet Apple does not seem to listen. The reason why is beyond my understanding!
And yes, I know the workaround of sorting the songs by last played, but I do not want that. I want a true RESUME PLAYBACK.
Please, please, please!!!
Thank you.
August 5th, 2006 at 5:59 pm
MacShrine does it again, all the way to the MacRumors front page. Nice job.
August 5th, 2006 at 11:46 pm
You know, I lost a bunch of my songs by accident and I emailed Apple iTunes team and told them my problem. They said they were happy to replace me missing tracks with new replacements, if I went into iTunes and clicked a menu option in ‘Advanced’ I think it was… 2 secs later iTunes began downloading all my stuff I had bought.
August 6th, 2006 at 10:56 pm
Uh, link to the survey? Hello?
August 14th, 2006 at 3:17 am
There is a resume playback function in iTunes. However it only works per track. Here’s how it works: Select a song, then press command + i. Then go to “Options”. Then check the “Remember position” box, and your done.
August 17th, 2006 at 7:32 am
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