Archive for the ‘Music’ Category

Emusic changes… good or bad?

Today seems to have been a day of polarisation within the Emusic community with a mixed batch of news sneaking out.
1) Sony have decided to put their back catalogue of anything older than two years. Including Sony BMG,

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 [...]