Improvement suggestions for Spotify Radio
Spotify radio is great, not up to the standard of Pandora but you're getting there soon I hope. Still the same tracks loop play all the time. It fells like there are only about 30 songs looping around and few new songs are played.
1. Make it possible to dislike a track that was previously liked. Once you have liked a track it's not possible to dislike (thumbs down button is disabled. So if you accidentally liked a song, or get tired hearing a song, you cannot change your mind later.
2. Add the like/dislike option to the right-click menu when spotify is minimized on the taskbar. It's awkward to have to bring up the app do indicate that you like/dislike a track. When playing from a playlist these options could simply be disabled.
That's all for now 8-)
I find myself frequently going out to bars or clubs and hearing a song a really like, but don't know that song. So on my iPhone, I have an app for that SoundHound or Shazam etc. But when I get home and I want to listen to the song again, I have to go back onto the app and find the song and then type it into spotify.
I think it would be great if SoundHound and my Spotify account were integrated. I can check my listen history or my bookmarks from SoundHound on my Spotify account.
It would be so great. More artists would be discovered and spotify could potentially get more listens to more artists.
Figure out the logistics to make this happen.
Regard,
Monkeyroll10
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Opt-in to 'Discovery Mode' for Spotify Radio
I'd like to be able to toggle on/off a 'Music Discovery' setting whilst listening to a Spotify Radio Station.
Sometimes I'm happy to hear artists repeated in a Spotify radio station, but sometimes I just want to hear something new.
Instead of changing the radio station algorithm to never repeat artists, like some forum members have suggested, how about letting the user opti-in to Discovery Mode.
It could be implemented into the GUI with a subtle toggle that appears next to the current radio station title.
When this is set to OFF (default for each radio session) the radio algorithm works just like it does now.
When this is set to ON.
Only play artists the user doesn't curently have in any Spotify playlists
Only play artists the user doesn't have in their local libraries
Don't repeat artists during that radio station session
These rules are just a suggestion. There could be a better way to define what 'new music' is for any given user, such as using these rules but using song plays instead of artist plays. Does anyone have other suggestions on how to achieve this?
However, the rules aside, the ability to opt-in a no repeat radio station that only plays music I haven't heard before is something I'd love to use, not all the time but definitely some of the time.Spotify needs to improve its radio system. That would be an WONDROUS idea if we were able to discover new, or forgotten artists and songs. I don't like it when Spotify tries to imitate Top 40 radio. It gets boring.
I wouldn't mind if the songs only repeated every 10 hours, but every 3 hours, OH MAH GODDD. It's not a biggie, but it sure is a pain in the rear.
Another issue that I'm having is that the radio forgets my liked tracks. Whenever the same song plays, it doesn't show that it's liked. The exact song is in my "Liked from Radio" playlist, but still it pretends it's not liked.
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Improving Suggestion for Elements 12
How do I make suggestions for improving the current Photo Elements 12 software?
There have been so many times that I would have an idea or request that I thought would make the software better etc….. but couldn’t find how to submit the idea. Thank you, for such a quick reply and link. I have just submitted my request on the linked site.
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Improvement suggestion for java.lang.Iterable
The current design limits each container to one collection. Wouldn't it be better to define java.lang.Iterable as
interface Iterable<T> {
Iterator<T> iterator(Class<T> class)
Then a conainer could hold multiple collections, as long as each collection contains different types.
Then I could write
class Zoo
implements Iterable<Tiger>,
implements Iterable<Elephant> {
Iterator<Tiger> iterator(Class<Tiger> class) ...
Iterator<Elephant> iterator(Class<Elephant> class) ...
and the compiler would be able to handle this:
for (Tiger tiger : zoo) .. give me all Tigers
for (Elephant elephant : zoo) .. give me all TigersThe current design limits each container to one collection. Wouldn't it be better to define
java.lang.Iterable as
interface Iterable<T> {
Iterator<T> iterator(Class<T> class)
}If you were to do that, none of the existing Collection types could implement it without breaking backward compatibility.
Then I could write
class Zoo
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and the compiler would be able to handle this:
for (Tiger tiger : zoo) .. give me all Tigers
for (Elephant elephant : zoo) .. give me all TigersYou can still do this:
class Zoo {
Collection<Tiger> tigers() { ... }
Collection<Elephant> elephants { ... }
for (Tiger tiger : zoo.tigers()) ...
for (Elephant elephant : zoo.elephants()) ...Mark -
How do i submit a product improvement suggestion
How do I submit a product improvement suggestion for the iPhone?
Apple does not accept input from the general public. They advise AGAINST it.
http://www.apple.com/legal/intellectual-property/policies/ideas.html
Apple or any of its employees do not accept or consider unsolicited ideas, including ideas for new advertising campaigns, new promotions, new or improved products or technologies, product enhancements, processes, materials, marketing plans or new product names. Please do not submit any unsolicited ideas, original creative artwork, suggestions or other works (“submissions”) in any form to Apple or any of its employees. The sole purpose of this policy is to avoid potential misunderstandings or disputes when Apple’s products or marketing strategies might seem similar to ideas submitted to Apple. If, despite our request that you not send us your ideas, you still submit them, then regardless of what your letter says, the following terms shall apply to your submissions.
TERMS OF IDEA SUBMISSION
You agree that: (1) your submissions and their contents will automatically become the property of Apple, without any compensation to you; (2) Apple may use or redistribute the submissions and their contents for any purpose and in any way; (3) there is no obligation for Apple to review the submission; and (4) there is no obligation to keep any submissions confidential.
PRODUCT FEEDBACK
Apple does, however, welcome your feedback regarding many areas of Apple’s existing business. If you want to send us your feedback, and we hope you do, we simply request that you send it to us using the form found at www.apple.com/contact, or you can choose from the many other listed areas for your feedback. Please provide only specific feedback on Apple’s existing products or marketing strategies; do not include any ideas that Apple’s policy will not permit it to accept or consider. It’s just one more way that Apple can learn how to best satisfy your needs.
Feedback and Information
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[ed. removed email]Suggestion for improvement:
I'd like <select size="1" multiple> to provide a dropdown with checkboxes like this:
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Suggestion for Improving Number
Hello Oracle Java community,
I've recently encountered some difficulties using the abstract class java.lang.Number, and have a suggestion for improvement.
I'm writing a class that computes statistical information on a list of numbers - it would be nice to not couple this class to Integer, Double, BigDecimal, or any other wrapper by using generics. I saw that there is a nice superclass that all Number objects inherit from.
I came up with:
public class Statistics<T extends Number> {
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h4. It would be nice to have richer functionality from the Number class, say to do mathematical operations with them or compare them.
h4. After all, in the real world it is possible to do so.
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As a side note, I'm solving this problem by taking an initial step to convert the List<whatever type of Number that the user enters> into a List<BigDecimal> by getting the toString() value of each element when cast as a Number.
private List<BigDecimal> convertData(List<T> data) {
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return converted;
Criticism is always welcome.
Thanks for your time and thoughts.
-James GenacHow compareTo() came into existence is from Comparable interface. As I understand, Comparable came into existence since Collections API has sorting functions - which needs to be run with a matching Comparable object that knows how to determine which element is larger than the other (not limited to objects representing numbers, you might sort a list of Persons). Hence, compareTo() is not solely meant for the comparison of numbers. Existence of the method in BigDecimal is just one case.
Subclasses can override the equals() method, but that cannot be implemented in a cleaner manner and leads to a very poor design. For example, you might want to compare an Integer and a Float. So the Integer class's equals() method need to have some if-else structure to determine the other type and then compare. Same holds true for the Float class's equals() method as well. Ultimately, Everything becomes a mess. All subclasses of RealNumber needs to know about all other subclasses of RealNumber. And you will not be able to introduce new subtypes and expect the equals() method to work correctly.
To avoid this, you need to depend on a single representation form for all types of numbers. If that's the case, you might just live with something like BigDecimal and not use Byte, Float, Integer,... (which we kind of do in some cases - for example to represent monetary amounts). So we can live without Byte, Float, Integer,...
Then we need some utility classes that would contain some number type specific functions to work with primitives. So we will also have Byte, Float, Integer... unrelated to BigDecimal.
Clearly, the wrapper types are there not because of the need to represent real world number types, but because of the need to represent computer domain number types. Hence, they have been organized not according to relationships found in real world number types. Many of us find this way of modelling sufficient and have an understanding about the limitations. But if you need to model the real world number relationships for some special reason, you might write some new classes. Then again there will be real world aspects that you will not be able to model easily. So you will model some aspects and neglect the other. -
Suggestions for new features & improvements to LCCS/ICS service
Firstly Hello, I am James from Influxis. if you got a suggestion for a possible improvements or new features to LCCS/ICS feel free to add your suggestions below and we look into it.
Thanks,
JamesHi James,
With the offering from Adobe, it was possible to have a free account with $15/month of service offered.
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</ol>Hi Marilyn,
Thanks a lot for the reply, it's good to see that even the not-so-polite rant postings are taken serious and get attention. I think that most of us truly appreciate the platform SAP is providing, but we're a bit tired with some of the application features/limitations. So I hope nobody takes offense when we're venting a bit...
Waiting for more input here.
I neither understand the <em>more input</em> (for what and by whom) nor the <em>here</em> (this thread or this forum). The missing functionality for dealing with unanswered questions seems obvious enough. At least that should be one topic that everybody agrees on. I suspect that the same applies to the rather poor <em>search capabilities</em>. Though as we can see in the forums, lots of people apparently seem to prefer to quickly shoot some questions instead of wasting their time with any research...
Continue to convince us please.
Is that a polite way of saying <em>keep on whining</em>? If yes, then no problem, I think we all need to do that from time to time...
If the feedback from the community is truly important, I'd say that there should be a public system for posting bugs/feature requests on which people could vote. This should be prominently placed in the forums and would allow easier feedback. The voting feature could be used to possibly limit the bugs/requested features to look at (e.g. top ten list) and then be classified by SAP based on implementation effort (with the usual disclaimer that no feature might ever be implemented just because it's wanted). Needless to say that it should be easy to search for already existing requests, but in general I'd assume that fairly soon there would be more voting (on top requests) than posting new ones...
To channel requests and avoid too many silly postings in this bug/feature tool one could imagine using earned <em>forum points</em> possibly as a currency for putting a value to the requests (i.e. I could vote to say if feature A gets implemented I'd pay it with N forum points, which are deducted from my account once the feature is present). I'm not sure if that is a good idea, but at least it might ensure that people who truly care about the platform enter their comments. At least it seems that often systems, which implement some artificial monetary system and try to optimize on cost, yield very good results...
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Any suggestions for improving my efficiency?
These are the two methods I've come up with to use what I have for making movies. One is for DVDs. The other is for making QuickTime MOV files for CDs. This is the process I have to use because we don't yet have our digital video camera that is firewire compatible with Final Cut.
For DVDs that will play in DVD players or media software on your computer:
1. I take the Video_TS folder and run it through DVD Imager (free, macupdate.com) which converts it into an IMG file.
2. I use the Apple Disk Utility (part of OS X) and burn the IMG file to a DVD.
Simple enough.
Making our recorded footage editable in Final Cut and then exporting as a QuickTime movie is a little more complicated. There may be a simpler way to do all this (like get a fire-wire FC-compatible camera I can capture footage from) but this is the process I finally got to work:
1. In the Video_TS folder are two VOB files. The larger one is the one that actually has your video on it. I use MPEG Streamclip (free, squared5.com) to remove the timebreaks (otherwise all you get is the poster frame) and convert it to a Quicktime MOV file. For settings, I just use Apple Video, 720x480 NTSC, and 30 fps. You need to buy the Apple Quicktime MPEG-2 Playback Component ($20, apple.com) for this free software to work.
2. Import the MOV file into Final Cut (I use Express which is $300 from apple.com) and do your editing and other yumminess. You'll need to render it first.
3. Export as an MOV file ... there's no .mov extension and the Info says it's a Final Cut Express Movie file, not a QT MOV which makes me nervous so I I open it in QuickTime Pro ($30, apple.com) and export it using the Movie to Quicktime Movie setting.
4. Then I burn my Quicktime movies to a CD.
Any suggestions for improving my efficiency?"For DVDs that will play in DVD players..."
If what you want is just to make copies of a DVD you burned yourself (eg using iDVD or your DVD camcorder) there is a simpler way: just create an image of the DVD on your desktop using Disk Utility, and then burn it using Disk Utility.
You need to go into the process of copying the VIDEO_TS folder only if you want to make changes to it. For example you might need myDVDEdit, a very powerful free editor of the DVD structure (to change the menu button behaviour, or so). Or maybe if the image is of a different size, from a small DVD to a large one.
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It is Any suggestions for improving Oracle Tools GUI performance?
Does anyone have any suggestions for improving the GUI performance of Oracles Java Tools? Response to events is very sloooow i.e. click on a menu in Oracle Directory Manager wait three seconds before the menu items appear.
System Environment:
Dell Inspiron 8100
Windows XP Pro
256MB Ram
1 GHz
Oracle:
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Other:
No non Oracle Java components installed (JDKs, JREs etc.)
ThanksIf the database and the tools are just on the one box more memory is probably required. I had an nt box with 500MHz 256MB and Oracle 9i and the java tools were unusable. I upgraded to 768MB of ram and the java tools were much quicker. I use the java tools on my laptop 256MB and 800MHz and they work fine for remote databases (ie. no rdbms on the laptop).
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Suggestion for a needed Walkman app improvement
Dear Sirs,
Although I’ll sadly have to part from my Sony Z1 (for other issues reported on this forum and to Sony Xperia Care, namely the touchscreen issue), I would still like to leave a suggestion for the most underachieving app (imho) from a Sony Smartphone.
With the long tradition on audio excellence and the Walkman brand, I would suspect that it would be a strong point on a Sony Smartphone. Strangely enough, the Walkman app made me buy a third party app (PowerAmp) to get some basic functionality like I had on my old iPhone 3GS.
One of the most serious faults of the Walkman app is the lack of volume normalization between audio tracks. Although Sony does provide a workaround (which is nothing more than a dynamic range compressor), it doesn’t make any sense (imho) with today’s technology.
Replaygain (for instance) is a free (but very effective) way of normalizing volumes without degrading the sound quality. Many apps like PowerAmp have it, and even iTunes has a proprietary version of it built in on every device for many years now.
As I said before, this can be done with third-party apps and third-party media management software (like JRiver or the free Foobar), but by doing so, the user loses the integration provided by a unique manufacturer (Sony Media Go -> Sony Walkman).
I’m really just trying to help, as it gets harder to understand why Sony lacks on such elementary things audio-wise, when the same company has Walkmans supporting the highest definition audio formats available today.
I tend to relate Sony with high quality digital audio products, so it seems strange that this particular app is so rudimentary on these levels. The Walkman app is eye-candy, but it should also be “hear-candy”, which it isn’t.You need to pass this on to the Sony delvelopers site as this is a user support forum
Contact details for Sony support http://developer.sonymobile.com/about/how-do-i-get-in-contact
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Obvious and simple Iphone Suggestions for improvements
Iphone Suggestions:
by the way, where is the place one should post these suggestions for best possible chance for the mac brainies to hear it?
Thanks
- can't edit, add to or create groups in contacts on the phone
- can't add a whole group at once to an email "to"or cc or bcc field. have to keep adding one at a time..
- can't insert contact details to a SMS conversation.
- draft emails don't autosave, have lost a few like this.
and boy does it need a usb port, even one that can maybe stick out of the earphone jack as an accessory.
otherwise i love it.
:)c
Message was edited by: Craig Charnockhttp://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
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Suggestions for improving iPhone 3G functionality.
Just made the move a couple of days agoBlackberry to iPhone because of the MobileMe functionality. Besides not having to sync anything, and the visual voicemail, I'm pretty disappointed.
A few suggestions for the next operating system.
-Copy and Paste functionality. Why they don't have this is RIDICULOUS!
-Ability to delete individual calls from call lists. It's already a function in the SMS app, why not have it in phone?.
-Calling from address book (as opposed to clicking into phone, and then contacts). If you create a new address book entry, you should be able to make a call right away.
-The ability to MUTE certain contacts when they call you. This is available on the Blackberry, and has come in very handy.
-Also, while this is not Apple's problem, a functional Facebook app. The blackberry FB app is flawless.
Any other suggestions?
APPLE, PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO THESE KINDS OF SUGGESTIONSYou really did not offend me, it's just that there are a dozen people a day who post the same suggestions. This forum is designed to ask questions of functionality ar problems. Yes, everyone wants MMS, Apple know that. But your really not going to get a constructive response about it here
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