# What feature do you want that you don't have on your music player? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 19, 2012, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-feature-do-you-want-that-you-dont-have-on-your-music-player/635145 "2012-09-19T05:31:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![zombywoof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/9e8a1a/32.png) [@zombywoof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zombywoof)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-feature-do-you-want-that-you-dont-have-on-your-music-player/635145/41 "2012-09-20T19:50:21Z")
Well, I have a Mac and have no problems syncing playlists…when you plug in your iPod you should be able to select it in iTunes, go to the “Music” tab, and select whatever playlists/artists/genres/etc. you want to sync. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-feature-do-you-want-that-you-dont-have-on-your-music-player/635145/42 "2012-09-20T19:57:23Z")
I want the iPod classic to cross-fade songs into each other. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-feature-do-you-want-that-you-dont-have-on-your-music-player/635145/43 "2012-09-20T20:29:41Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > I want the iPod classic to cross-fade songs into each other. I never really noticed before because I don’t really want that function, but you’re right, you can do it in uTunes but the command doesn’t transfer to the iPod. I have a “classic” model too. So that’s another thing I want – any playback setting you can make in iTunes should also work on the iPod. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-feature-do-you-want-that-you-dont-have-on-your-music-player/635145/44 "2012-09-20T20:40:42Z")
I’m the midst of my own iTunes mystery right now. I decided to try the “Sound Check” option under Playback preferences. It’s supposed to make all your music start playing back at the same volume. I didn’t understand that this meant iTunes doing some kind of “analyzing” of every tune right now in order to do this. But, it’s not “analyzing” every song. At the top of the screen, song titles are flashing by every second as well as a number – “1 of 6010 songs”, “2 of 6010 songs”. “3 of 6010 songs”, etc. Problem is, I don’t have 6010 songs, I have more than 11,000. And I don’t have any playlists with 6010 songs either, so it hasn’t decided to analyze the playlist I happened to be on when I checked the preference box (I assumed this would be a global command, so I don[t even know what playlist I had selected at the time). ---
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-feature-do-you-want-that-you-dont-have-on-your-music-player/635145/45 "2012-09-20T23:05:54Z")
> [@zombywoof](#): > > Well, I have a Mac and have no problems syncing playlists…when you plug in your iPod you should be able to select it in iTunes, go to the “Music” tab, and select whatever playlists/artists/genres/etc. you want to sync. I can get the songs to transfer over, but they just transfer as songs. I can’t play them together as a playlist on my ipod. ---
**Author:** ![zombywoof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/9e8a1a/32.png) [@zombywoof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zombywoof)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-feature-do-you-want-that-you-dont-have-on-your-music-player/635145/46 "2012-09-20T23:15:20Z")
> [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](#): > > I can get the songs to transfer over, but they just transfer as songs. I can’t play them together as a playlist on my ipod. Do the Playlists not show up under the Playlists menu on your iPod? If not, I don’t know why they wouldn’t - I’d try asking at an Apple store or at the Apple Support forums. ---
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-feature-do-you-want-that-you-dont-have-on-your-music-player/635145/47 "2012-09-20T23:36:03Z")
> [@zombywoof](#): > > Do the Playlists not show up under the Playlists menu on your iPod? > > If not, I don’t know why they wouldn’t - I’d try asking at an Apple store or at the Apple Support forums. No they don’t. But thanks for trying to help. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-feature-do-you-want-that-you-dont-have-on-your-music-player/635145/48 "2012-09-20T23:53:19Z")
Better music. ---
**Author:** ![AaronX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-feature-do-you-want-that-you-dont-have-on-your-music-player/635145/49 "2012-09-21T09:14:49Z")
> [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](#): > > I can get the songs to transfer over, but they just transfer as songs. I can’t play them together as a playlist on my ipod. Is it a smart playlist or a manual one? Do other playlists of that type show up? Do playlists show up at all? Are you syncing all music files or only certain playlists? ---
**Author:** ![AaronX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-feature-do-you-want-that-you-dont-have-on-your-music-player/635145/50 "2012-09-24T04:46:09Z")
> [@AaronX](#): > > At the iPhone announcement, they mentioned it. Not sure if that version of iTunes is out yet. You could try watching the iTunes part of the video. I think you right click on a song and click play next. Ok, I checked the video and it’s in the next version of iTunes, due “late October”. You can see it on Apple’s website: [iTunes - Apple](http://www.apple.com/itunes/new-itunes/) “The new Up Next feature in iTunes lets you select a song and easily queue it to play next. Or last.” ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-feature-do-you-want-that-you-dont-have-on-your-music-player/635145/51 "2012-09-24T05:03:37Z")
I wish I had an FM radio on my iTouch. I wouldn’t use it often, but it would be nice. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-feature-do-you-want-that-you-dont-have-on-your-music-player/635145/52 "2012-09-24T15:16:23Z")
How about a “I just dropped my iPhone awkwardly on my desk and I didn’t mean to start a new shuffle, please go back to the old shuffle” option. ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-feature-do-you-want-that-you-dont-have-on-your-music-player/635145/53 "2012-09-24T20:39:02Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I’m the midst of my own iTunes mystery right now. I decided to try the “Sound Check” option under Playback preferences. It’s supposed to make all your music start playing back at the same volume. I didn’t understand that this meant iTunes doing some kind of “analyzing” of every tune right now in order to do this. > > But, it’s not “analyzing” every song. At the top of the screen, song titles are flashing by every second as well as a number – “1 of 6010 songs”, “2 of 6010 songs”. “3 of 6010 songs”, etc. Problem is, I don’t have 6010 songs, I have more than 11,000. And I don’t have any playlists with 6010 songs either, so it hasn’t decided to analyze the playlist I happened to be on when I checked the preference box (I assumed this would be a global command, so I don[t even know what playlist I had selected at the time). I’ve noticed that on my ipod as well, and I am guessing that some of the songs are in a format that the ipod doesn’t recognize. Usually this comes up when I know I’ve just dropped, say, 100 songs from a flashdrive into itunes and then into my ipod, and the ipod only registers 98 of them. I figure out which 2 songs are missing, convert the file into MP3 format through itunes (regardless of the original format, even if it’s an MP3), and drop the new file into the ipod, and usually all is now well. It’s weird. ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-feature-do-you-want-that-you-dont-have-on-your-music-player/635145/54 "2012-09-24T20:55:13Z")
I would like a feature that sends an electric shock to the artist if I think they just slapped a track/album together. “Chinese Democracy” comes to mind… ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-feature-do-you-want-that-you-dont-have-on-your-music-player/635145/55 "2012-09-24T21:11:14Z")
> [@gallows\_fodder](#): > > I’ve noticed that on my ipod as well, and I am guessing that some of the songs are in a format that the ipod doesn’t recognize. Usually this comes up when I know I’ve just dropped, say, 100 songs from a flashdrive into itunes and then into my ipod, and the ipod only registers 98 of them. I figure out which 2 songs are missing, convert the file into MP3 format through itunes (regardless of the original format, even if it’s an MP3), and drop the new file into the ipod, and usually all is now well. It’s weird. I know it’s not that. All of my music is either AAC format, or mp3, both of which iTunes and the iPod recognize. And the tracks in either format don’t total 6010. The best I can figure is that at some time in the past, when I had about half the music I do now, that I triggered the “Sound Check” function unintentionally, or maybe even on purpose. But I don’t remember doing it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-feature-do-you-want-that-you-dont-have-on-your-music-player/635145.md?page=2)