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It would appear that the iTunes 8 “Genius” doesn’t actually listen to music and is simply good at knowing “people who like X tend to also like Y”, based on iTunes Store purchasing patterns.

I call this design pattern “More of the Same.” This is not unlike Pandora or Amazon’s recommendations.

(I like this rationalization of being relegated to obscurity; I’d rather be a non-entity in a sales database than never listened to.)

(And the cool thing about Pandora is that it will play full-length tracks that you don’t already own.)

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2008 > September

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