Q: Poor decisions are being made in the developement of Itunes.

My hope is that somehow this might get attention from the developers.

I am a strip club dj, producer, and generally just an avid music fan that likes to spend lots of time with my music.

Auto-rating for albums is not a feature that users who avidly sort through music or use ratings to navigate playlists while working enjoy what-so-ever. This problem could be easily solved by simply putting in an option in the preferences to enable or disable auto-ratings.

I literally pray each time an update comes out that this has been added or auto-ratings be done away with. It affects my work and in consequently my daily life.

In this current update the option to "Show Duplicates" has vanished. I use that feature a lot. Please don't take that from me. Please?

Also the search function on at least windows is broken. I can no longer search a song using portions of different fields to come up with results. I have to input one field, press enter, and then input the rest. An example being:
If I searched "Miguel Wildheart" it would come up with nothing because I used both the artist and song field to search. However If I inputted "Miguel" hit enter and then typed out "wildheart" after it would come up with the result that did not show previously.
While this might be easy to overcome it has been rather hard to break the habit after spending literally the entire lifetime of iTunes using the search bar to its utmost flexibility.

I have spoken to people in the store and have called customer support service. Everyone seems to see these flaws but can do generally nothing about them. I hope there is someone out there that can see this and cares. I just want to use iTunes to its fullest potential like I have for years.