Really Living 17 Sep 2008 10:47 am
Apple’s Itunes Genius is well, genius.
What it does: sends your library information to Apple. Then you choose a song to hear and click on the “genius” logo.
What you get: suggestions for other songs you might like from the itunes store.
What it really will do: sell tons of music because those who love music will find those little .99 recommendations pulling song memories from the cobwebby corners of the mind irresistible.
Listing to the Eurhythmic’s today, after a friend got “Here Comes The Rain Again” stuck in my head (especially the bit about, “I want to dive into your ocean, is it raining with you”…what a great lyric), Genius thought I might like a little Thompson Twins, Bruce Hornsby, Tears For Fears, and s’more Annie Lennox. And they were right. Songs I would not have gone looking for just came right to my machine.
Brilliant! Er…Genius. 
on 20 Sep 2008 at 3:58 pm 1.Joy said …
I have just experienced my first “this is genius” moment with a playlist. On my run this morning, a couple of songs I almost never hear popped up, (Peter Gunn, for example) and were the perfect antidote to my heavy legs and shuffling pace.