iTunes DJ Questions

Drag and drop reordering is working fine for me, so it's not an issue where the feature has been removed.

Are you really running iTunes 8.1 on Mac OS X 10.3.x, as your profile indicates?

This appears to be a local problem with your installation. I've tried dragging and reordering tracks and it works fine.

You can allow guests to request, just don't allow them to vote. That does indeed lock the playlist order.

i don't get the voting part of it. It seems it only lets you vote once...do people have to use their own iphones/ipod touch to vote? i thought the idea was to pass around one ipod touch/iphone so different people can vote or control itunes

They really should have mentioned that somewhere.

I totally agree! It seems that Apple didn't think about this iTunes DJ very much. It says nothing in the help notes about not being able to re-arrange songs when voting is turned on. And when you turn voting off all of the songs that are requested just go to the next song, rather than maybe having a little popup window saying that this song was requested and letting the DJ accept or deny the request. iTunes DJ still need A LOT OF WORK!!!

i disagree.
how could the software possibly deal with people making requests and the admin reordering manually +at the same time+? Impossible.

instead, if voting is off, the guests are able to make intelligent choices. if the admin doesnt trust the individuals, and opts for a democratic system, then she places herself in that same democratic pool. not only is that fair, but there is no way to program around it (the conflicts would always favour the admin, and guests would be made useless).

@Rob_Hood

I can't quite tell what you're getting at to say that software couldn't handle votes and DJ override at the same time. A DJ is a DJ, not a democracy. It should be absurdly simple to allow voting as well as drag-and-drop up until the moment the current song ends and whatever is at the top of the queue to being playing. Software can do what we code it to do.

In my opinion, guests Should be made useless - they're guests and they're making requests.

Apple is making a weird design decision if the intent is to create some sort of party application where no one person is really in control. I doubt a public establishment would make use of that aspect without a fairly limited playlist.

Brainstorm: Coming next is the ability to vote for the next track by paying $.99 to itunes - that a bar/club gets a cut from. Virtual jukebox!

LayneB wrote:
@Rob_Hood
I doubt a public establishment would make use of that aspect without a fairly limited playlist.

Using iTunes at a public establishment is most likely not what was intended. In fact, using songs purchased from the iTunes Store for public performance would be a violation of the terms of sale. iTunes DJ appears to be intended for parties.

Who get's to vote etc? Is it people on your network or can anyone online vote?

Voting is possible by anyone with an iPod Touch or iPhone that is connected to the WiFi network that the iTunes application is running on. I'd say it is to be used at private parties where you can allow your friends to request music.

Well, that certainly would require a new business/licensing model for tracks, you're right about that.

I just have the sense that this feature feels a bit version 0.75-ey to me and I do look forward to seeing what it develops into.