1. Duplicate Searching

This would be extremely helpful to those of us who have a lot of compilation and sample albums.

2. Multi-Artist Listing

I have many tracks by more than one artist. I would like a track with “Artist 1 & Artist 2″ in the Artist ID3 field to show under both Artist 1 and Artist 2.

3. Playlist Folders

This would allow all related playlists (Soft Rock, Metal Rock, etc.) to be put in a single folder (Rock).

4. DJ’ing Capability

Cueing, mixing, fading. I’d love to see Apple implement this Apple style.

5. Alarm Clock

Yes, there are ways to do this now. But none of them are as easy as it would be if implemented natively.

A thought, anyone?

Related link: http://www.sixapart.com/log/2004/06/announcing_pric.shtml

Now that the noise around MovableType’s new licensing scheme has died down I’d like to give my thoughts on how they are a victim of their own success, and are/were now as important to people as the apache webserver is to websites.

The first thing is that MovableType (MT) has done a great thing by listening to the feedback from the first new licensing announcement and have addressed a lot of the concerns they heard from users. Not all, but that’s the two way street of being a company too. They should be commended for being on the cluetrain for that one, but the first announcement has overshadowed it.

Secondly, MT is a victim of its own success in this case. When MT was heating up in the blogging world they took it by storm attracting legions of users and volunteer developers. But, something happened. Weblogs became as essential to people as email, webservers, and IM. It was no longer a quaint piece of add-on software that was fun to play with. MT had hit the tipping point and became architecture!

Well, we all know what happens to software once it hits that level. Businesses are built on it, communities form on it, it becomes as essential as air, and nothing can come between us and it. Nothing. It must be unemcumbered. That’s just how it is.

There lies a critical piece of the Movable Type story. As a business it was commercialized too late. Maybe not for commercial success, but definitely for not making waves.

The new license could have said that for every installation we should send Ben and Mena’s company a piece of bubblegum. It would be an outrage. A threat to everything millions of people now depend upon for their online life. It would be basically unacceptable for most people and early adopter types. (insert dripping sarcasm here)

Of course in hindsight this is easy to see, but be wary of the fine balance that lies in a huge success. If you’re lucky enough to not linger away in obscurity with a commercial product, and it becomes as essential as water… it’s hard to start to charge at the well and not have people get upset with you.

Related link: http://www.24hdc.com/

Miss those dotcom days? The 24 hour coding sprees. The cold pizza for breakfast. Calling a table in some corner of a cafeteria your office. Well, join the 24 Hour dot com project.

Visit quickly, the project is on German time so it will actually be almost over before the Californians wakie wakie.

The mission is to create a dotcom business from scratch in 24 hours. That means designing and programming a complete and useful web application, recruiting people, doing marketing, creating investment programs and much more. After 24 hours, the complete business will be sold on an eBay auction, and everyone involved will be rich!

You are free to join in and help out, and you will get paid in valuable stock ;)

I haven’t had this much fun since… well the dot com days.

*Disclosure: I’m heavily invested. 8^) Is there room in Martha’s cell?