You can do more and more in iTunes. It used to be a player for your mp3-files. Now people have their mp3s in there, they browse for music, buy music, make imixes, subscribe to podcasts, listen to podcasts, update ipods etc.
With all this going on: How come there is no History-list in iTunes?
I need one! When I browse music at Amazon.com or any other webbased musicstore, I can use Safari’s history-list to see which pages I have visited.
Not so in iTunes. No list at all.
What I want, is something similar to the History tab in Photoshop. Not only does it show everything you have done, but it also have different icons for different actions.
iTunes need some kind of list like this, not to be able to go back and undo things. But to be able to see my footprints later - to be able to go back and see which songs I played and pages I viewed on the net with iTunes.
Here are some of the categories I would like to have:
- (Recent) Songs played
- (Recent) Songs added/imported to iTunes library
- (Recent) Songs transfered to iPod
- Songs deleted
- Pages viewed at iTunes Musicstore (one for each of the contries you use)
- (Recent) searches in iTunes Musicstore
- Imixes submitted
- Quicktime movies watched
- Podcasts downloaded
- Podcasts subscribed
When choosing one of these categories in the new History menu in iTunes, a list with the 100 recent items (or more if you set that number up in preferences) shows up, with a title, and a date. Choosing some of the will make that song play or page open. Choosing “Songs deleted” will just show a dialog box saying something like this:
“Songblahblah by bandblahblah was deleted from your iTunes library on monday, at 23:12. It has also been deleted from the harddisk. Do you want to do a Spotlight search for it?” and a “Yes” and “No” button.
Or: “Songblahblah by bandblahblah was deleted from your iTunes library on monday, at 23:12. It is still in that Trash. Do you want to put it back in the iTunes library?” and a “Yes” and “No” button.
If you haven’t thought about this before: With Spotlight you can search anything on your drives, even inside documents. With Safari, you can see all pages you have visited for ages back. But with iTunes: Nothing.
What do you think? Have you ever missed a History-list in iTunes? Use the comments!