So Apple released a new version of iTunes today. Version 8 includes a new feature called “Genius”.
Play a song, click the Genius button, and iTunes creates a playlist of other songs from your library that go great together.
This sounds like a cool idea, although I consider myself already pretty handy at creating smart playlists.
What really intrigued me was the new Genius Sidebar:
As you select songs in your library, the Genius sidebar displays songs from the iTunes Store that go great with it.
Lots of other people are, of course, getting paranoid about sharing their listening data with the Apple mothership, but I’m not. I’m thrilled if iTunes is going to start watching what I’m playing in order to recommend other stuff. Finding new music is one of my favorite things to do.
Unfortunately for me, it is a complete FAIL.
