{"id":1682,"date":"2008-09-15T09:17:19","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T13:17:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-09-15T12:06:11","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T12:06:11","slug":"itunes-genius-sidebar-rhyme-or-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/itunes-genius-sidebar-rhyme-or-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"iTunes Genius Sidebar:  Rhyme or Reason?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/genius.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"433\" \/><\/div>\n<p>This is a quickie.  Don&#8217;t know if it will pick up any traction but I am curious to hear anyone&#8217;s thoughts.  As I was just starting to listen to <strong><em>The Plastic Ono Band<\/em><\/strong> album this afternoon (tip to RTH for reminding me how great this recording is) when I was notified that iTunes had an update.  I did the update without even seeing what it was and had to shut iTunes down.<\/p>\n<p>When it came back up it had this &#8220;Genius Sidebar&#8221; that makes recommendations and playlists.  I was still humming <em><strong>Lennon&#8217;s<\/strong><\/em> <em>Hold On<\/em> in my head so I used that to create my first Genius playlist.  I let it spin without looking at what was selected.  Interesting.  Although I could kinda feel a flow I couldn&#8217;t really put my finger on how it did what it did.  And then <em>Funhouse<\/em> came on.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after <strong>Talking Head&#8217;s<\/strong> <em>Air<\/em>.  Oddly though it is the live version from the <strong><em>Stardust Ballroom<\/em><\/strong> concert.<\/p>\n<p>Wha?<\/p>\n<p>Anyone have any thoughts or insight on what goes on here?<\/p>\n<p>Another one after the fold.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/xtc.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"419\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a quickie. Don&#8217;t know if it will pick up any traction but I am curious to hear anyone&#8217;s thoughts. As I was just starting to listen to The Plastic Ono Band album this afternoon (tip to RTH for reminding me how great this recording is) when I was notified that iTunes had an <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/itunes-genius-sidebar-rhyme-or-reason\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}