got the iphone

bigbadbill
bigbadbill Posts: 1,758
edited October 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
I finally broke down and got a new iPhone 3G. I had to download the new version of itunes to sync my new phone. There's a new feature called "Genius" where it will take any song you play and then make suggestions from the itunes store.
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  • thunderDAN
    thunderDAN Posts: 2,094
    yeah it also works on your iphone to make playlists


    get the Pandora app
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    A friend of mine has one and it's so annoying, every time I say anything she is unsure about, she checks the facts online to try and prove me wrong.

    I used the word "abstruse" the other day and she swore blind I made it up, was a total idiot and was about to be proved wrong. Turns out I wasn't :rolleyes::D

    These things can be TOO useful sometimes...
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  • pretext
    pretext Posts: 1,294
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    A friend of mine has one and it's so annoying, every time I say anything she is unsure about, she checks the facts online to try and prove me wrong.

    I used the word "abstruse" the other day and she swore blind I made it up, was a total idiot and was about to be proved wrong. Turns out I wasn't :rolleyes::D

    These things can be TOO useful sometimes...

    Abstruse is hard to understand. :)

    Side note: Andrew Bird uses the word in his song "Spare-Ohs." One of many reasons to love the man.

    As for the Genius application, I don't care much for it. Every time I've used it, it spits back many songs by the same band or someone in that band. Like an Afghan Whigs tune will generate 5 more by them, a few by the Twilght Singers, Gutter Twins, etc. Not nearly as imaginative as Pandora. Don't know anything about the technology behind either though.
  • Shawn Smith Collective
    Shawn Smith Collective Posts: 986
    lralle wrote:
    As for the Genius application...Every time I've used it, it spits back...a few by the Twilght Singers, Gutter Twins, etc.

    In a perfect world, it would spit these back no matter who you were listening to. :)
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  • scw156
    scw156 Posts: 442
    lralle wrote:
    Abstruse is hard to understand. :)

    Side note: Andrew Bird uses the word in his song "Spare-Ohs." One of many reasons to love the man.

    As for the Genius application, I don't care much for it. Every time I've used it, it spits back many songs by the same band or someone in that band. Like an Afghan Whigs tune will generate 5 more by them, a few by the Twilght Singers, Gutter Twins, etc. Not nearly as imaginative as Pandora. Don't know anything about the technology behind either though.


    Pandora will explain to you how it got its suggestions. Theres a button in there. It will say "this song has deep base with male vocals and a blah blah blah"

    pretty neat
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  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    lralle wrote:
    Abstruse is hard to understand. :)

    Side note: Andrew Bird uses the word in his song "Spare-Ohs." One of many reasons to love the man.

    As for the Genius application, I don't care much for it. Every time I've used it, it spits back many songs by the same band or someone in that band. Like an Afghan Whigs tune will generate 5 more by them, a few by the Twilght Singers, Gutter Twins, etc. Not nearly as imaginative as Pandora. Don't know anything about the technology behind either though.

    Last night I made a Genius playlist with "I am Mine". It gave me "Society", "Wishlist", "Long Nights", "Off He Goes", and "Rise". Also some Temple of the Dog, Soundgarden, REM, and Metallica's "Hero of the Day".
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  • Slip Kid
    Slip Kid Posts: 1,175
    I wish someone would make a fucking baseball game for the iphone already

    At least a home run derby type of game. 9 pages of applications and not one baseball game I own.
    I just don't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die.
  • pretext
    pretext Posts: 1,294
    scw156 wrote:
    Pandora will explain to you how it got its suggestions. Theres a button in there. It will say "this song has deep base with male vocals and a blah blah blah"

    pretty neat

    i've done that. it is cool. i wanna know how they create something so complex. i guess it's just a big database. or something else that's way over my social working head. :)
  • pretext
    pretext Posts: 1,294
    rrivers wrote:
    Last night I made a Genius playlist with "I am Mine". It gave me "Society", "Wishlist", "Long Nights", "Off He Goes", and "Rise". Also some Temple of the Dog, Soundgarden, REM, and Metallica's "Hero of the Day".

    This is SO a new thread.
  • angie76
    angie76 Posts: 646
    congrats...I'm just fine with a cell phone I can talk on..I don't need all the bells and whistles.
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