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Itunes ate my baby!

Well, ok. Not really. Yesterday’s update to iTunes 9.2 and iPhone OS4 seems to have caused a bit of a stir with loads of people, including me, falling foul of a tricksy gremlin in the systems that cause iTunes to crash. So what happens? iTunes itself seems to work fine after the upgrade, as does [...]

Genius seems to work (mostly)

Much as I seemed doubtful in my last post about the new itunes feature, Genius, I have to say I’m actually kind of impressed with its suggestions so far. I’ve run a few tests and it’s returned a nice selection of playlists. The usual suspects are in there, but occasionally it throws in an unexpected [...]

Is itunes 8 going to be a genius, or a dunce?

This evening has seen the installation of iTunes 8 after today’s Apple presentation. The only real reason to upgrade is to play with the new Genius functionality. For those that haven’t seen the speech yet, Genius is supposed to make suggestions of other artists or songs in your library that go with a song of your choice. It also offers [...]