One of these is probably classifiable as a bug, one is just a gripe of mine. Both are to do with shared playlists.

• When playing a song from a remote playlist programs that query iTunes for what song is playing don't get any information back. As far as I can tell this is just an outright bug. You can still see in the status window what song is playing, so iTunes has that information. You can even Get Info on a remote track. This one is a higher priority for me because it kind of breaks Kung-Tunes working for me.

• When playing songs off a remote machine it doesn't grab album artwork. Why not? If it's available it should grab it. It's not huge. I can't think of any reason not to.

While I like iTunes 4 overall and think the music store is pretty swanky, there are a number of places where iTunes 4 is missing some of the typical polish I've come to expect from Apple software. Did they just think people weren't going to be using some of these features that much? They don't seem to really have a good feel for what their customers are doing then.

Now as far as a wish list item. I want a remote control mode. I want to be able to pop up an iTunes window that links directly to an instance of iTunes running on a remote machine. I've got a G3 which is used as a file server, and now with iTunes 4 a music server. But one thing I'm thinking of doing is plugging my G3 into my stereo. This would let me play songs over my stereo (I've got the Audiotron too, but it won't play AAC and doesn't support smart playlists). And while I could use some applescript to write a remote control app it would be most cool to be able to control iTunes remotely with a full featured interface. Let me sign on, let me create new playlists on that machine, choose which one to play, the whole ball of wax.