Idea #2: Two iTunes Features That Should Have Been There a While Ago
April 1, 2009
This is part 2 of 3 in a series on ideas to create or improve web and desktop applications. See also parts 1 and 3: “Idea #1: Font Scheme Generator” and “Idea #3: Google People Search – Convenient or Just Plain Creepy?“
Two ideas for the price of one in this post. Both of these involve small features that would substantially increase my appreciation for iTunes. First, I’d like to see a link to YouTube for a live performance or music video of every applicable song. I’m not sure how this would work practically, but perhaps users could moderate which specific video gets matched with a given song. If a song goes untagged, the link would go by default to a simple YouTube search. I can’t think of any reasons that Apple would have as to why this would be a bad idea, other than their loss of music video sales. They could work around that, though.
Second, and perhaps much simpler, iTunes should come with an ability to download song lyrics automatically. Right now I’ve got an application running in the background to download lyrics for songs as they’re played, but unfortunately it does a mediocre job and could certainly be improved. If iTunes would download lyrics like it does album art, I’d be a happy man. Of course, this would be optional, as some users would want to forego lyrics in their songs to save drive space on their computers or iPods. For people like me, though, this would be an invaluable tool.
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