ITunes Feature Request: Shared Library Enhancements

I didn't see a section of the forum specific to feature requests so I'll just post here and see what kind of feedback pops up.
I use iTunes to manage the music library for my home network, then share the library to each system on the network. The only gripe I have is that I can not make my local systems load the artwork from music in the shared library. I am also a bit dissapointed that the "jukebox" view doesn't work for shared libraries, and that you can't make a playlist containing songs on a shared library.
I'm assuming these features were left out to conserve network bandwidth, which makes sense, however I think it should be an optional feature that that can be enabled for people with the hardware to support it. If you're running a gigabit home network then there is certainly enough bandwidth to spare to support this.
I'm a windows user and will always be, however I'm very impressed with iTunes and how efficiently it operates and handles tagging and other features. I just think that the shared library capabilities should be expanded. It'd even be nice if you could grant permission to a specific computer name or IP range giving systems permission to edit the library. Remote Desktop/VNC solutions work well for this, but it'd be nice to have an internal feature to support it.

See this -> http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html
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I can't seem to find whether there is a official Apple web form to submit feedback/feature requests for iTunes. Does anyone know the URL for this?
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In order to access shared iTunes libraries over the LAN, the sharer must have iTunes open for me to access their content. I have a strong desire for Apple to enable this type of sharing to occur without the sharer needing to open iTunes. For instance, if I'm sitting on my couch with my laptop and I want to play music streamed from my shared iTunes library on my desktop in my home office, I would like to do this regardless of whether the desktop has iTunes open or not. This is also a huge issue with streaming content to the Apple TV. The Apple TV can only access shared libraries if the sharer has iTunes open and running.
Does anyone know of third party software that accomplishes continuous sharing/broadcasting of your iTunes library over the LAN? I've never heard of such a thing and would like to suggest it to Apple. In the Windows world, I'm envisioning something running in the taskbar. I don't really know about the Mac OS X world, but I do know that directories are shared in Finder between Macs regardless of whether or not something is "open". It should be just as simple to ALWAYS be able to access shared iTunes libraries.
Lastly, just out of curiosity, I'd be interested to hear if anyone feels like there would be significant technical hurdles that would make this very hard to achieve.
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Aaron

See this -> http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html
and this -> http://www.apple.com/feedback/

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I have a Seagate Central which has an itunes Library. I can see the library in iTunes in my MAC,
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