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iTunes “genius” suckage of the day

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

UPDATE:  It seems they also never heard of roman numerals, and so while playing “synchronicity II”, suggest that I don’t own “synchronicity 2″.  I’m so impressed.

Seems some less-than-thoughtful developer decided that artists who aren’t available for sale thru iTunes would get the same treatment as artists that iTunes doesn’t recognize.  So you get the rather pathetic outcome of selecting The Beatles’ “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer”, and getting recommended Metallica’s “Death Magnetic”.  Yeah, really “genius” behavior there, steve jobs.

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ITunes QA Sucks

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

It must be a pretty small department, without any accountability.  How else can you explain the crapulent nature of the latest iTunes release?  Attempting to select 60 tracks fails silently.  It seems the most you can select at one time is somewhere around 10-20.  And then when you hit delete to remove them, up pops a dialogue box that sometimes has a checkbox for “don’t ask me again”, and sometimes it doesn’t have that checkbox.  It doesn’t really matter, since it still asks you every time.

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The Kool-Aid Tastes Good

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

I have tasted the Kool-Aid, and I have to admit, it’s a pretty tasty beverage.  I’m not talking the real kool-aid, I’m talking the metaphorical, in this case, the Apple-way.  I picked up an airport express, and spent the $10 to get access to the app store for my touch.  I have to admit, while there were some problems getting it all set up, once it was, it just works.

Finally, I can listen to the same music in the bathroom, as I am in the living room.  It’s synchronized, no distortion, no static, just music.  And the itouch’s remote software lets me select, pause, and rate music from anywhere in the apartment.  If only they had a built-in time-shifting plug-in for audio.  I guess life can’t be totally perfect.

Random seems really unrandom, but maybe that’s because I haven’t loaded so much music in yet.

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