Hi, I've just registered. Can I talk about iTunes here?

I'm an albums man and I rip my CD's into iTunes using AAC at various different bitrates (160kbs minimum). I very rarely download music, maybe the odd track here and there from the iTunes store, but not much.

Itunes was, until recently, getting better and better what with the coverflow feature. I used coverflow before Apple acquired it. Incidentally, with coverflow, you used to be able to choose to only show albums that had more than x amount of tracks. So, for all those single tracks or EP's you might have, you could set it to, say, 4 tracks. This then eliminates all the 'albums' that have less than 4 tracks. You can't do this in iTunes' coverflow. I can't even figure out how to do it using a playlist. This is a feature I wish they'd add.

I say iTunes was getting better, but now I feel it's becoming rather bloated. It has tv shows, movies, radio, games, podcasts and even movie rentals (just added). I don't want any of that stuff. I want it to be my digital album library. I want it to show my albums (and their artwork) listed by artist, then chronologically. It does do this, but sadly it does not transfer across to my iPod (albums are listed alphabetically under artist on my iPod....Grrrr). In essence, I just want the music.

Any thoughts on the way iTunes is going?

Cheers

Webby

You can get the songs to play in any order you want, provided you set up the playlist that way. The song order in the playlist will be preserved, even with new iPods (like the Classic and the Touch).

In some cases, I've had to create more than one playlist for the songs to stay in the correct order, but as long as the track number is there, the songs will play back by track number, assuming you sort them that way in iTunes.

--Vidiot