Post by jollyboy on Jun 30, 2011 20:42:21 GMT
So I finally got round to installing this on me iPod, 3 years after it came out, and this week I've been absolutely loving it.
It's pretty blinking clever (almost Genius, hur hur!), and it's like having a DJ there, churning up tunes from the darkest corners of your collection that you'd not played in ages or even completely forgotten about.
The fact that you can select pretty much any tune on your iTunes or iPod, and it creates an instant 25 track (or more) playlist of similar fare is just incredibly useful i'm finding, and it's stopping me from playing the same stuff over n over again.
I is a fan of the Genius
Anyone use it (and/or have been for the last 3 bloody years?
)
I recommend it to anyone with a biggish mp3 collection. Great stuff
The Genius feature, introduced in iTunes 8, automatically generates a playlist of songs from the user's library which are similar to the selected song. Genius playlists are created by the ratings system and collaborative filtering. An iTunes Store account is required because information about the user's library must first be sent anonymously to Apple's database. Algorithms determine which songs to play based on other users' libraries, and Genius becomes more intelligent given a larger data set. The resulting Genius playlist can contain 25, 50, 75, or 100 songs and can be refreshed for new results or saved. The iTunes Sidebar recommends selections for purchase from the iTunes Store based on the selected library track.[36] Once Genius becomes active in iTunes, it can be used on current generations of the iPod Classic, iPod Nano, iPod Touch or the iPhone.[37] iTunes 9 added Genius Mixes, where the Genius software finds similar music and automatically puts them into mixes.
It's pretty blinking clever (almost Genius, hur hur!), and it's like having a DJ there, churning up tunes from the darkest corners of your collection that you'd not played in ages or even completely forgotten about.
The fact that you can select pretty much any tune on your iTunes or iPod, and it creates an instant 25 track (or more) playlist of similar fare is just incredibly useful i'm finding, and it's stopping me from playing the same stuff over n over again.
I is a fan of the Genius
Anyone use it (and/or have been for the last 3 bloody years?
)I recommend it to anyone with a biggish mp3 collection. Great stuff
