On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 5:00 AM, Peter da Silva <[email protected]> wrote: > OK, I can dig that Apple's new last.fm-style music recommendation system is > just starting up, so their Genius doesn't have as broad a musical taste as > me, but it doesn't even seem to reliably know about tracks that I *know* are > in the iTunes store. And it's not that I don't have them tagged correctly, > because they were able to find the album artwork for them. Updating Genius > takes forever, too.
I've found that it's even better than that. I seem to have such eclectic taste that the only music I have that genius likes is 80s and classic rock. I only put that on when I have guests who don't appreciate the likes of Sonny Sharrock, Ode Hazelwood, and the other non-mainstream artists that comprise the majority of my listening. Even the tracks I bought from the ITMS are not available for genius, for the most part. Even better, I bought a one-hit wonder song from Amazon that I know should work for Genius, and even though it's named exactly the same as the itunes store it still isn't available for genius. I used to have some albums where only certain tracks worked with genius, but I just tried some of those and they seem to work now. Perhaps Apple's processing tracks in order of popularity? > I used to use a social playlist system that worked with iTunes, and worked > MUCH better than Genius, but I seem to have misplaced the software, and > can't remember enough details (like the name) to google it. It was faster, > more reliable, and didn't care where the music came from originally. I'm > wondering now if Apple borged them and turned their code into Idiot. No, I think the problem is that Apple's NIH syndrome is returning. They did well for the first 5-6 years of OSX in not reinventing the wheel, but that's gone out the window recently. If they had just borged something it would have turned out a lot better. Apple is the world's biggest VAR, but they've forgotten that. -Zach
