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KingSparta:
Not a Request But, Cloud storage For Performer Store Would Be Nice.
park:
I also generally agree with your list. I would say that adding functionality to Gizmo on the various platforms should be given special attention, as more and more people will be accessing their media on tablets over the coming years.
vagskal:
Integrate online streaming music services in the database. Today users have physical media files on hard drives (and soon in some cloud) as well as access to streaming services but no software that combines them in a seamless way. Let users add albums and songs on Spotify and have them treated in the MC database as if they were physical files (allow tag changes, ratings, play counts etc.). Then I might stop buying CDs and downloadable files. I want to collect things and see and handle/enhance what is in _my_ collection, not all the music available on some streaming service.
Support for iThings. Today I would hesitate to buy a software for playback on my home entertainment system that did not have a good iPad app.
A versatile statistics/report feature including graphs.
marko:
No-one mentioned images yet?
Big Things? Raw file development and management. Ability to export to a choice of file types jpg, png tif etc. in a choice of formats for a choice of destinations, flickr, email, local HD etc. etc. which would allow me to bin Lightroom.
Another thing that occurred to me the other day was: Would it be possible to have a client MC using a served library, with merged local records.... that would be pretty big too :)
-marko
rjm:
Thanks for asking. I'd like the focus to be metadata. Here is my world...
Books
I started with all (pdf) books in MC. Then along came mobi/epub and I needed something to manage their metadata so I now use Calibre for epub/mobi and MC for pdf. Then I wanted to search content so I had to introduce another application for indexing and searching. But most search engines do not index epub/mobi so I currently only have content search on pdf. Three different apps plus a search gap is not a stable situation. I want to get all my books into one app again.
Audiobooks
MC is perfect for all audiobook tasks except one metadata related thing. I create a local text file and/or links to info about the audiobook such as the plot and reviews. When browsing audiobooks in MC I crave for a feature that would pop up info when I hover or click something. Currently I have to double click and open the text file in a 3rd party app which stops any audio I may have been sampling and it's not a nice experience.
Video
MC is perfect for organizing and playing video. Not so good for metadata. I currently keep only basic metadata (name, genre, date) in MC and use Movie Collector for all complex metadata (cast, crew, plot, episodes, reviews, cover art, etc.). I would love to have all my metadata in MC. If someday you offer competitive metadata features for video you will probably need to auto-import data from other popular apps because the time invested in metadata for large collections can be huge.
Photos
I moved the metadata for my photos from ThumbsPlus to JRiver and now manage photos with MC. It works but my son switched his photos over to Lightroom and what he's shown me looks pretty good. I'm staying with MC for now but I can feel something tugging at me.
Music
MC is perfect. No other apps needed or wanted.
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