PDA

View Full Version : any music enhancement applications out there yet


netean
04-10-2008, 05:57 PM
I love my ipod touch, even more so now that it's jailbroken. However, the thing I still find a letdown at times is the music player: some really vital information is missing.

Are there any applications out there that you know that:


Allow playlist editing/creating on the ipod touch (note: Not the on the go playlist)
something where I can edit my existing playlists or create new ones?


An equaliser that really works -that is user editable:
or perhaps something that will allow me to adjust the pre-defined settings: I find the equaliser settings to be virtually useless - they all sound awful to me!



Support for any other formats:
not even sure if this is possible, but I'd absolutely love Flac support (ogg support would be great, but Flac would be truly great) - to save me having to convert all my flac audio to apple lossless (which won't play on anything else!)



An id3 tag editor



A file name editor. (I keep forgetting that the touch doesn't scroll track names, so when I'm converting an audio book I can't tell which track is which as they all start with the same characters)



The Ability to delete music files from my ipod (without having to plug into itunes)



maybe I'm just being nieve and these things will never be available, but I can't help thinking that they're around on many other players, and in my head at least, can't be that difficult to implement... surely?

BlackWolf
04-11-2008, 06:04 AM
I love my ipod touch, even more so now that it's jailbroken. However, the thing I still find a letdown at times is the music player: some really vital information is missing.

Are there any applications out there that you know that:


Allow playlist editing/creating on the ipod touch (note: Not the on the go playlist)
something where I can edit my existing playlists or create new ones?


An equaliser that really works -that is user editable:
or perhaps something that will allow me to adjust the pre-defined settings: I find the equaliser settings to be virtually useless - they all sound awful to me!



Support for any other formats:
not even sure if this is possible, but I'd absolutely love Flac support (ogg support would be great, but Flac would be truly great) - to save me having to convert all my flac audio to apple lossless (which won't play on anything else!)



An id3 tag editor



A file name editor. (I keep forgetting that the touch doesn't scroll track names, so when I'm converting an audio book I can't tell which track is which as they all start with the same characters)



The Ability to delete music files from my ipod (without having to plug into itunes)



maybe I'm just being nieve and these things will never be available, but I can't help thinking that they're around on many other players, and in my head at least, can't be that difficult to implement... surely?

maybe a stupid question but ... if those things are important to you, why did you ever buy an ipod? the ipod will never have any of those things because you can do all those things with itunes (except the EQ) and it would make the interface absolutly impossibly confusing.

anyways to answer your question: I don't know of any player out there. additionall EQs are not possible anyway, but the rest would be possible and I guess we'll see those things when the SDK arrives :-)

DerekVOF
04-11-2008, 08:39 AM
I can see others making revised music & video players to support additional formats and features (some have already started based on threads I've seen on other boards). However, I doubt Apple would authorize release via the AppStore of competitive apps like that...

BlackWolf
04-11-2008, 10:43 AM
I can see others making revised music & video players to support additional formats and features (some have already started based on threads I've seen on other boards). However, I doubt Apple would authorize release via the AppStore of competitive apps like that...
don't know, I mean ... why not? if the people use another music player to play their music apple doesn't loose any money or anything so why should they care, really?
apple has a very simple music player that has the most important features. if others want music player with much more functionality then why not?

and an SDK-based music player can't really do much more except show more tags. you can't alter files/ID3 tags/playlists etc. or add additional file formats ... unofficial players could do all that.