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12-16-2008, 10:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Newark, NJ | | | I-tunes Genius
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So I just activated this thing last night...I gotta say I'm really impressed...
You click any song in your library and it goes through and creates a play list of similar songs
For instance I clicked a Cake song and fired it up and it made me a mix including:
Primus, Sublime, Queens of the Stone Age, RHCP, The Talking Heads, Beck, 311....
I click Frog Bridage's Buzzards of Green Hill and get a play list of
Primus, The Flaming Lips, Phish, Mr. Bungle, The Grateful Dead, Flyod, Hendrix, Ween.... |
12-16-2008, 11:36 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Pittsburgh | | | ...ween... |
12-16-2008, 11:43 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Maine/Vermont | | | Ween rules. |
12-16-2008, 11:52 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Newark, NJ | | Ween saves the thread from utter 
Ween is awesome and I guess its not really a surprise that Ween found its way in there...heck, they span every genre known to man. |
12-16-2008, 12:27 PM
|  | One lab accident away from being a supervillain | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Powder Springs, Ga | | | I prefer not to let my computer tell me what to listen to. That's what the radio is for.
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12-16-2008, 12:31 PM
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Originally Posted by PSPookie  I prefer not to let my computer tell me what to listen to. That's what the radio is for. | 
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12-16-2008, 01:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Waco, TX | | | I use it on my iPhone occasionally and it does make pretty good playlists.
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12-16-2008, 02:04 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Eh? | | | What I find funny is when it says Genius can't find enough similar songs to build a playlist, so here is the best-sellers they want you to buy.
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12-16-2008, 02:08 PM
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Originally Posted by DudeistMonk Ween saves the thread from utter
Ween is awesome and I guess its not really a surprise that Ween found its way in there...heck, they span every genre known to man. | awesome......i wonder if i can find any of those......i'd love ramen man
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12-16-2008, 02:27 PM
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Originally Posted by standupright awesome......i wonder if i can find any of those......i'd love ramen man | Ask and ye shall receive! http://www.geekstuff4u.com/gadgets/k...-warriors.html
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12-16-2008, 02:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: 97465 | | | It's been on my computer, but I've never activated it.
Did so now just to see what's what.
I figger it's just another marketing tool to get me to buy more stuff from the iTunes store.
It seems that a lot of computing stuff is just marketing - just like TV in it's day (and now).
But I really don't need iTunes or my computer suggesting stuff.
I pretty much keep iTunes ang my iPod on shuffle. Hell, if I didn't like the stuff I wouldn't have put it in my library in the first place*
*not counting the stuff my mom** lends me! (John Scofield plays Ray Charles, The Subdudes -- sheesh!)
**yes, even 50 yr olds have moms.
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12-16-2008, 03:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Jeremy Crockett | 
lots of crazy stuff on that site!
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12-16-2008, 03:22 PM
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Applications Engineer, QSC Audio | | Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Costa Mesa, Calif. | | | It's cool, as long as I'm not trying to do anything in particular when it's updating. It's very slow when you have a huge iTunes library, though. |
12-17-2008, 09:26 AM
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Yeah, tried it! It makes up interesting lists!
Need to quit being so resistant to stuff  double Taurus 
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12-17-2008, 09:47 AM
|  | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | | Meh. I'm crossing my arms and staring at it really hard with my "prove it" face. |
12-17-2008, 09:57 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: North Dakota | | | No doubt there's a marketing piece to it, but I think it also makes some pretty OK playlists. |
12-17-2008, 10:05 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Poughkeepsie, NY/Boston, MA | | | Probably works in a similiar way as Pandora radio. |
12-17-2008, 03:36 PM
|  | Evil Alien | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Sacramento, CA | | | Well the reason why is because the mp3s you have are not consistently tagged.
Mp3tag is a good free application for tagging your mp3 files.
Personally, I hate the tagging convention settled on by whatever mysterious consortium established it. It forces you to use their system of organization and classification. It's a pain in the *** that my mp3 player doesn't just sort my mp3's by the filenames I gave them and the folders I created for them. I hate having to re-tag everything I have with Artists, Titles, Years, Album Names, Genres, etc.
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12-17-2008, 09:13 PM
| | | | I can't freakin' sign in to itunes because I signed off one time- and now I can't make a new account until I purchase another itunes card. Screw those corporate bastards!
Oh, and it doesn't help to have my friends rave about how awesome it is. I'll just have to cave and get liek a 5$ itunes card. |
12-17-2008, 09:16 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | | I really love the Genius. It's great for if you want to rock out to a lot of stuff... it's pretty good all around.
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