Some iTunes improvements (5 min blog)

Just as an aside, I've had some of these in mind for a while, but shall I bother emailing apple to tell them?

Firstly, if I spend 79p per track I expect to be able to more with it that I can at the moment.  For example, why don't they sell you it in a form where you have the individual track elements (instruments, voices, special effects etc.) available so that you can either play it as it was edited or select the individual elements that you want to emphesise (by changing volume / equaliser) or even apply special effects.  You could remove an entire instrument if you wanted!  It would be like maxing your own remix but surely easy for apple to do considering that tracks get produced like this (or at least they do if you listen to the music I do).

I would also love it if they could include the lyrics with the songs and have them appear in the top of the box Karaoke style - so you know what it is people are singing and can sing along.  Again it requires the co-operation of the artists but then it would be worth 79p a song!  Also, a slow / fast play button would be nice.

Finally, a little one, they could do with a "start playing from here next" button - how often I am listening to a track but then want it to jump somewhere else afterwards, but will be busy programming / typing up a report by the time it finishes the track and would like it just to jump there automatically.  This would be so useful especially considering VNV Nation have many 6 min + tracks and I could be in the middle of a complex for loop by then!

I don't expect Apple will implement any of this if I emailed them, because people are still paying that 79p (or more for "DRM Free") but it would be great though!