The Chronicles Of…

As seems to be the habit I’m about to write a few words on something I have barely used, but hey why bother waiting until you have a real understanding of something.

I installed the Genius feature on iTunes pretty much when it became available, not really thinking that I’d use it or knowing what it was but hey if Apple thinks I need it then chances are I need it.

So I’ve left it there and pretty much not touched it, until the other day when someone said to me ‘how cool is that Genius thing in iTunes’, to which I just awkwardly replied ‘yeah…’ thinking that the only thing it seemed good for was to try to get you to buy more music from them. But he was referring to the fact that you can choose one song and tell it to make it a playlist.

It then consults the great Apple database in the sky or whatever and pulls together these songs which it somehow thinks are songs you’d like to listen to based on that one song… and it seems to be right…

This is like choosing random on your whole library and seeing what songs are played and having that happiness that comes when a song that you forgot you owned, or haven’t thought to play in ages, comes on. But without (well mostly) having to listen to songs that are completely random in your library and you loaded on there because one day you might listen to them but you don’t really see that day coming…

It also means you can choose one song in a style that you feel like hearing and rather than having to think to pull a playlist together Apple does it for you.

Thanks Apple.