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degeneric wrote:

Nefarious wrote:

iTunes Genius ?    Who asked for this feature.

Hope it's not the same guy who asked for iMovie '08

okay, now I see more about genius feature;  it also recommends songs from the iTunes Store to buy using "apple's own algorithms".   

For my music tastes, the problem is that the iTunes Store is not truly global.   Music from one country is not automatically licensed in another.

I'm about to get a free first gen iPod Touch.  Just wondering - If I upgrade to the 2.0 software, and then 2.1, there's really not that much difference (besides the speaker, volume, and curve) between the new one and the old one?  I can play games, use the Genius playlist, check my email and all that cool stuff?

Nefarious wrote:

okay, now I see more about genius feature;  it also recommends songs from the iTunes Store to buy using "apple's own algorithms".

Itunes 8 has some new browsing and accessability features, but the big news is the inclusion of Apple's dubiously named 'Genius button' which automatically creates a playlist of 25, 50, 75 or 100 songs based on the song you are currently listening to.

In case you think it does some clever analysis of the actual music, you'd be wrong, it simply uploads your entire music list, ratings and playcounts to Apple HQ and mashes it with millions of other Itunes users to figure out likely candidates. [..]

"If you liked A, you'll love B, C and D..." (buy, buy, buy)

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/ … tunes-nano