iTunes 8.0

Wednesday, 10th September, 2008

So, new iPods were announced by Apple yesterday, which is all very nice. However, I bought an iPhone in November last year (when they were released in the UK) and part of my justification for spending the £269 on that phone was that I also needed a new iPod, and the iPhone provided me with that too.

As well as the new iPods, Apple also released iTunes 8 yesterday. I’ve been using it since yesterday evening, and it’s pretty good. I’ve not yet tried out the new ‘Genius’ feature, but I’ve read some good stuff about it already, and as the data available to help generate these Genius playlists grows, this feature can really only get better and better.

My favourite feature of iTunes 8 has to be the new Visualiser though (they call it Visualizer, but I can’t bring myself to use a ‘z’ when an ‘s’ is the correct choice). I’ve just ‘watched’ about half a dozen songs on my MacBook Pro, and the effects are quite simply stunning.

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adventures in on Thursday, 11th September, 2008 10:36 am
Genius bar?

It has already caused me offence after one song.

I’ll grant you that the suggestions it made were immediately subsequent to my turning the feature on, but any device/filter/software that recommends Scouting for girls Elvis ain’t Dead to me from an input of The Kink’s Last of the Steam Powered Trains can raffle its snaffle.

Scott Walker, Two weeks since you’ve gone; Kaiser Chiefs, Ruby.

Just fuck off.