I just wanted to share a little tidbit about Apple’s new Genius feature in iTunes 8. Apple claims that the “genius” can create a playlist of songs you like that go “great together,” but it seems thats only if you don’t like The Beatles. If you attempt to use the “genius” to try to create any playlists from a Beatles track, iTunes says there just isn’t enough information.
Thanks for the massive FAIL, Apple.
2008-09-20 @ 23:13
Alex comments:
That may be because the itunes store doesn’t have the beatles catalog. If that is what it is, we have stumbled upon an important part of the whole genius algorithm, namely, for genius to work, the song has to be on the store
2008-09-21 @ 18:58
John comments:
Not so genius after all.
2008-09-21 @ 19:57
mouse comments:
I’ve always hated itunes until I read this. Now I love it just a little.
2008-10-13 @ 19:04
7926 comments:
It works with The Beatles now. I ran it with Dear Prudence.
2008-10-30 @ 20:19
Paul comments:
I just ran genius with She Came In Through the Bathroom Window. Awesome.