{"id":3024,"date":"2008-09-11T21:34:15","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T01:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=3024"},"modified":"2008-09-11T21:34:15","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T01:34:15","slug":"genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=3024","title":{"rendered":"Genius"},"content":{"rendered":"

iTunes 8's new \"Genius\" feature is awesome. You give it a song to start with, and it builds a playlist of 25 songs based on the song you started with. As far as I can tell, it picks them based on style, tempo and shared band members.<\/p>\n

For example, I started with Son Volt \"Mystifies Me\" (a Ron Wood song) and got:<\/p>\n

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  1. Uncle Tupelo - New Madrid (half of Uncle Tupelo is Son Volt)\n
  2. Wilco - Summer Teeth (the other half of Uncle Tupelo)\n
  3. Yo La Tengo - Stockholm Syndrome\n
  4. Rolling Stones - Torn & Frayed (Ron Wood connection)\n
  5. Big Star - I'm In Love With A Girl\n
  6. Pavement - Silence Kit (as folk-rock as Pavement gets)\n
  7. Son Volt - Flow\n
  8. My Morning Jacket - Masterplan\n
  9. REM - Pale Blue Eyes\n
  10. Calexico - Cruel\n<\/ol>\n

    etc..<\/p>\n

    That's a great, cohesive, interrelated list.<\/p>\n

    Even better, a few sings later, it picked something I'd never heard before: The Damnwells, \"Sleepsinging\". That's a song I got on a magazine sampler a few years ago, which I imported into iTunes, but never listened to. But, this song fits the list perfectly.<\/p>\n

    I hate to say it, but I think this feature just made the hand-crafted mixed tape obsolete. What's the point in spending an hour finding a nice blend of songs when iTunes can do it in a couple of seconds? Well, OK, the personal touch - iTunes can't handle the meaning<\/i> of songs. But, if we're talking about samplers, or party mixes, or some things to put on a work-out mix, Genius owns it. And I say that with the absolute confidence you can only get from using something for all of 10 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    iTunes 8's new \"Genius\" feature is awesome. You give it a song to start with, and it builds a playlist of 25 songs based on the song you started with. As far as I can tell, it picks them based on style, tempo and shared band members. For example, I started with Son Volt \"Mystifies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}