- Posted by Neil Thompson
- Posted in Music
With iTunes 8 comes Genius – a system to help you find similar music in your collection or a cynical attempt to sell more downloads by Apple, depending on your view. It also works on both the iPhone and the iPod Touch. You simply select a track and press the genius icon and a new playlist is generated featuring similar tracks and it makes a pretty good go of it. This could be, of course, because I have lots of similar music on my iPod in the first place and anything out of the ordinary is simply ignored – it couldn’t make a playlist from a Tangerine Dream track for example. However, on the whole you do get a fairly good selection of music and if you don’t want to be sold to – hide the Genius bar in iTunes!
Sep 16
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1 Comment Apple’s Genius is Genius
Dirk
September 23rd, 2008 at 13:30
1I was pretty impressed with it, too. It did a nice job of creating a playlist of songs that really did go together pretty well (although I found that 2 or 3 of the songs were typically from the same album as the song I’d chosen…). And of course, apparently _nothing_ goes well with Zappa…
I’d have maybe been happier if iTunes hadn’t stopped working altogether when I ‘upgraded’ to V8. As their website correctly identified the solution was uninstalling/reinstalling QuickTime (even though I was at the latest (Apple-downloaded) version) I guess I’m not the first person who hit this. Still some way to go in terms of hassle-free upgrades…
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