Features I'd like to see added to iTunes

Question

I'm mostly pleased with iTunes and much prefer it over WMP10. The only niggle I have with it is that it won't let you copy playlists. So if I set up a smart playlist with a host of variables then want to create a copy with only one variable changed I have to go through the whole playlist creation process to make the new playlist. If there was a menu option whereby I could create a copy of a playlist and the new playlist would be called copy of... that would help in this regard.
Something else I'd like to see added is a mood rating - a bit like the 5 star rating you can attach to songs. It would be like the 5 star rating but instead of 5 stars you would rate songs from sad to happy. Then when you felt in a happy mood you could choose a smart playlist with all your happy songs or if you were in a sad mood you could choose a smart playlist with all your sad songs.
Just my twoppence worth...

Answer 1

THANKS FOR YOUR DETAILED RESPONSE --SORRY TO HEAR YOU ARE HAVING
CONVERSION PROBLEMS--HOPE THEY WORK OUT
I'll check out your suggestion re Buelie's discussions.
Regarding the conversion from Apple Lossless to lower bit rates, I understand
that its not time consuming from the discussions quoted below--but I am still
working on it (and still sitting on the fence re what bit rate I should use).
Secondly you mentioned the problem of duplicate songs--again I think it might
be easy to make the Lossless files distinctive. From the discussion below
I think they are already distinguished by "kind" which should make it easy to
add another distinguishing feature in a batch process. Unfortunately I'm not at that stage yet so I can't confirm that.
We are probably getting off the topic in this forum so this will probably be my last post here -- thanks again for all your help.
Below are some of the discussions (provided by King Cole) which you may or may not have read but which may provide useful:
Problem: Before I knew anything about bit rates or file sizes, I accidently imported a ton of my music as giant music files like Apple lossless! Now, my iPod has filled up with far fewer songs than Apple said could fit on my iPod! What do I do?!?
Solutions:
You have a couple options now. What you are going to need to do is convert the songs to a smaller file size like mp3. Under your import preferences (which can be found under iTunes>Preferences>Import Tab if you use an Apple or File>Preferences>Import Tab if you use Windows), change the file type to the type you would like to convert your music too.
Then, in your music library, sort your music by "Kind." If there isn't a "Kind" column at the top of your library, right click or control-click the "sorting bar" and select Kind. Click on "Kind" so that the arrow is either pointing up or down. See what file types your songs are. Are there any that are already in the file format that you are about to convert to? If so, don't select those songs. Otherwise, select the other songs (we'll say for discussion purposes that you chose AAC under the Import tab). Right click or control-click the selected songs and choose "Convert to AAC." iTunes will then copy and paste all the songs you selected into the new file format, AAC. Now, you have two options. If you have plenty of memory on your computer, I would choose Option 2.
Option 1:
You could delete all the music in the large file format from your library and continue syncing the iPod automatically.
Pros: You don't have to change any of the settings you use to sync your iPod. You also save hard drive space.
Cons: You delete the higher quality music. If you ever want to play your iPod through a stereo or high quality speakers, you won't have the high quality music to play. Also, you have to recreate all your iTunes playlists.
Option 2
Make a Smart playlist (File>Make New Smart playlist). Choose "Kind" in the first drop down menu. Choose "Does Not Contain" from the next drop down menu. Then, type in "Apple Lossless or whatever the large song file type was." What this does is essentially create a separate library for you; one that contains no large files. Now, depending on how many playlists you have, you may want to replace the songs in the playlists with AAC files, but if you don't have too many playlists with large files, it should not be a problem. Next, connect your iPod. Go to File>Preferences>iPod Tab Choose automatically update selected playlists only. Then select all the playlists, including the smart playlists, you want to sync onto your iPod. This will sync all the files in your library, excluding those in the large format.
Pros: You get the best of both world. You have all the lossless files on your computer, and all the AAC files on your iPod.
Cons: You take up a lot of file space on your computer when you virtually duplicate your library.
JC
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