Request Unique Features

[Stupifier]

I know this is a long post...please read it though. It is pretty important to me.

I am curious about some of the capabilities the iPod has that maybe iTunes doesn't support. Can ml_ipod have the potential to do things that iTunes can't do with the iPod? Basically, I'm talking about completely unique features. I know there is currently the last.fm thing and maybe another feature...I'm really interested in seeing unique features like that develop. Ideas and power in the iPod that iTunes doesn't implement possibly because they just haven't thought of it.

Below is just a personal example/request to get the creative juices flowing.

I, among others with a hefty amount of music, have a very difficult time organizing music by genre. For instance, a song from a movie soundtrack that is Rock music. What genre do you label that as? "Soundtrack" "Rock" "Soundtrack-Rock"? If you label it as "Soundtrack" than when you want to play Rock genre music.....the song will not be in the list even though it technically is a Rock song. Same logic applies to labeling it "Rock". Creating an entirely new genre, ie "Soundtrack-Rock," is inadaquete also. That would result in the specified song not being considered a genre=Rock song or a song belonging to a genre=Soundtrack. It would also give a very bloated Genre list. I hope I have clearly stated the problem....I have plenty of other examples to re-state the problem if needed.

To solve this problem, a given song must be capable of attaching itself to two or more independent genres. That way, the song could be found under "Soundtrack" and "Rock". I know iTunes is not currently capable of this. I also know that many other people with large music databases have this problem. Furthermore, I can imagine that companies with large archives of music faced with this problem found a solution that is not very feasible for a consumer. Businesses like mp3.com probably just have two files in their database....one with Genre=Rock and another with Genre=Soundtrack corresponding the the Soundtrack Album. That solution is not very Size-Effecient and also redundant as now you have duplicate songs filling precious space on your ipod.

This brings us back to the solution I pose.....the capability of assigning two or more independent genres to a song. I know current ID3 tags do not support two genres and all that jazz......neither does winamp. It doesn't make any sense why they don't have this. But can't a commonly un-used ID3 tag field be re-directed into a 2nd genre?

These are the kind of unique things I wanna see......