I've seen several rants about iTunes 7 floating around the web, but no one ever seems to ever talk about what I consider to be an essential feature that's continually been missing from the iTunes application. And one, I might add, that's trivial to add.

What is it? Simple. There's no way to make the movie/TV/video playback window "float" on top of all of the other windows.

This, in my mind, dramatically reduces the usefulness of those types of media, as it's extremely difficult to watch a TV show or movie AND engage in other work at the same time. This is especially true if you're on a smaller screen system like a MacBook, or when working with full-screen applications like Excel or Dreamweaver.

C'mon Apple it's not that hard. Provide an option to float the window.

For an example of how to do it right, check out Trans Lucy, a DVD player that allows you to float the window, and that even gives you the ability to make it translucent so you can "see though" to your other applications.

Make it a right-click or preference option if you don't want to clutter up the interface, but let us watch our movies and get something useful done at the same time.

Please?

Contributed by: Michael Long

(You can open iTunes videos in their own window, just double-click on the video window in the lower-left corner of the iTunes window. However, there's no way to change the opacity of the player window - Ed.)