Comments on: Full screen Party Shuffle in iTunes

By: matias.pietila

matias.pietila — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:46:00 +0000

Thaks for your comments and sorry it took so long to approve them… I’ve been away from my computer for some time.

I contacted a developer behind an app called Cover Stream and he told me that they are currently working on something similar.

http://www.snarb.co.uk/coverstream

By: John Doe

John Doe — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:42:17 +0000

You can send feedback to Apple using following form:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

Let’s hope they listen users and add this great feature to next version of iTunes.

By: bruce z.

bruce z. — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:51:16 +0000

And I foolishly forgot to add that features like cover flow and lyrics display will note work on the host connected to the audio gear.

Also – this must be done via iTunes not via a remote mount of the filesystem holding the iTunes on the server.

By: bruce z.

bruce z. — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:48:31 +0000

A work around for a party is to use two computers. One computer is the iTunes server and has a manual (not smart) playlist called Party. The other computer (no local music needed but needs to be on a fast enough network to support remote iTunes) is connected to the audio gear. It runs iTunes remotely and is shuffling the playlist Party being served up from the computer holding the music. Users change the playlist on the server only. Nobody can mess up the current music playing unless they delete the active song.

I know – it’s a hack – but it works.

By: matias.pietila

matias.pietila — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:44:55 +0000

Thanks. I wouldn’t hold my breath, though. I posted the video to digg, too, but few have been interested… http://digg.com/apple/iTunes_Party_Shuffle_with_Full_Screen_Cover_Flow

The double clicking idea of yours could also be useful. Especially if it was clearly visually communicated when the party shuffle mode is activated and there was some kind of animation that showed how the double clicked songs fly to the playlist.

(Another related thing that I’d like to be fixed is the inability to use iTunes with dual monitor setup so that another screen would be used for full screen visualizer and the control window would be located on the other one.)

By: anssi

anssi — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:01:20 +0000

Very good explanation about the Party Shuffle problem in iTunes. And rather good guide which way Apple could solve it!

Thanks for this man, I have been troubled with this too for too long. Every party everybody double clicks their favorite song and current music stop.

It could be also that every time Party Shuffle is used and a song is played through it iTunes would understand that double clicking should put selected song to Party Shuffle list or played next on Party Shuffle AFTER the current song.

Hope a lot of folks at Apple sees your blog post.