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I am writing an iTunes replacement ( the music and library management part ). Any feature requests from HN ?

Current alpha features:

* Playlist resume - if you interrupt a playlist 3278 entries in, you can resume at 3278

* Music diary - track what tunes played when & where ( occasional GPS polling optional )

* Powerful music list filters

* Keep track of recently played items and do not replay them for a while

* Works with Spotify thanks to Spotify API for premium users

* mobile app on iOS and Android

Suggestions beyond this ?

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Music library spanning multiple disks.

This is my #1 desired killer feature, and no one has done it right (or even attempted it.)

I have 100s of gigs of music, but my MacBook Air can only store a portion of it. I want to connect the external drive and have the player see it all without changing the library pointer. I also want to be able to select which songs to mirror onto my laptop - a "checkout" feature.

Pretty sure Winamp doesn't remove'missing' files from your library, unless you use the "remove all dead files" menu option.

Similarly you might be able to handle your external drive as a media device in order to 'checkout' files between them.

I'll second that. Surprised it hasn't been solved by this point.

I use to use iTunes quite a bit, probably gave it a chance until 2010 or so even. But then it just became too little of a music player and too much of everything else that it was.

So I just use physical CDs, and more recently Spotify.

I'm a music stats geek. I'd suggest Last.fm intergration and I'd absolutely love some local database that keeps track of the play count meta data. iTunes keeps a running tally of the total number of plays, but it only keeps the most recent play count date. As a result iTunes looses an entire dimension of data. You can't use it to see your music consumption over time, and I consider that a huge omission. It's nuts that iTunes can't tell me what my top songs of the year were. The only app that I know of that keeps a local database of play counts is iScrobbler (discontinued but open source). Here's a shot of the type of thing it shows: http://cl.ly/image/0q2g0a3Q2e22

Please make it simple to just play an entire album. I'm an infrequent iTunes user because the piece of shit expects me to research who knows what to figure out how to play an entire album. It ain't obvious, and I could care less to figure it out because they'll change the interface on a whim.

Shuffle albums is also a cool feature to have.

I don't get this. You pick an album on the list and hit the big play button on the cover art.

A mechanism to bulk export and then import the metadata on existing files such as play count and rating. Extra points if it's not XML.

Yes. Metadata management as well. But JSON would be great for me. I like the sublime text method of preferences and packages.

a software that deal cleverly with podcasts, allowing at the same time to mix them with music in smart playlist but also keeping some specificity, (save playing position including across devices), bookmarks....

I haven't used itunes in awhile, but I can think of a major one. Music curation.

Allow me to remove duplicates, find names and album art, create and alter playlists and the like, and you might have me using your software.

Bingo, I agree with this

Probably wouldn't be a big in-demand feature, but the ability to create a playlist off any ID3 tag. I recently got interested in playing all my music from the 1970's and it was hard to locate.

Thanks, you've effectively voted for what I call 'filters'

Filter year > 1969 & year < 1980, expressed via a gui interface

Another idea I've had -- a "genre DJ". If you regard genres as graph points, this would give you control over transitions between those points.

So I can say "x% chance of playing Dixieland Jazz after playing a Swing song". This is so you don't get Megadeth right after listening to Louis Armstrong. But... after maybe 10-12 song + genre transitions, you might work your way there.

Some integration with Alfred and Quicksilver would be nice on the desktop - I never use the media player itself, but prefer to bring that up and type the song/album/artist.

daapd support (shared libraries), both as a client and as a server.

Lacking or in addition to that that compatibility with UPnP (currently broken on VLC).

Easier logic to create smart playlists. The iTunes smart playlist builder is very clunky for generating and/or relationships.

Full support for airplay from the app (not rerouting the whole OSX sound output to airplay like the Amazon Music App requires)

I also started a project on my own; mostly to accommodate my 80k music collection and partly to get better with Python: https://github.com/sphildreth/roadie

By iTunes replacement do you mean iTunes replacement or mp3 player?

Don't forget the following:

* Upgrade iOS on iPhone * Backup iPhone * Sync iPhotos from/to iPhone * Sync videos from/to iPhone

etc.

Just the music player for start

Does it work with Apple Music?

So what defines it as an iTunes replacement? Sounds like a different Music Player, maybe I'm missing something?

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