Jobsnote ~ September 9th: My Genius is A Bit On The Dumb Side

In the Seiries Jobsnote I talk about all that happened at that big Apple Keynote. This 4 part series focuses on the September 9th, 2008 Event. This is the final post.

Along with iTunes 8, the new ipods and the 2.1 software update came a feature built in called the genius. The main genius is located in iTunes 8 and is used for giving you reccomendations from the iTunes store when you have selecetd a song, or making you a playlist with similar songs. Here is how it works:

1. iTunes Syncs Information about you library weekly to apples Genius Servers
2. From the Genius servers, thousands of results are generated and send back down to iTunes
3. The Genius results are used to build recommendations and create Genius Playlist with songs similar to one song. They are also synced to iPods that support Genius so you can use Genius on the go.
4. As more and more libraries are synced, the genius learns about new music and adds it to its Server of info.

It is a great service and works almost-perfectly. The only flaws are:

1. Genius is not really that smart, yet. About 1/2 of my library can’t be registered within genius because Genius has not yet larned about those albums.
2. The sad part about the above is that that 1/2 consists of mostly iTunes Store purchased music

Those are really the only complaints I have. Other than that it is a great service. To learn how to use the genius, go here. That about wraps it up for this years September Jobsnote, so until next time. Goodbye!