Comments on: Stop it, iTunes, you’re killing me

By: Becca

Becca — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:41:09 +0000

Let’s go over them all, shall we? I hate misunderstandings.

First the categories. Those are my Top 5, I can’t fault them on that. Then the four on the left. As I said, I don’t know who Ferry Corsten is but I looked him up and I have no idea why anyone would think I’m into Trance. I’ll give them a zero on that. I do indeed own Duran Duran’s Rio and have purchased music from Emily Loizeau and Cali. Three out of four ain’t bad.

Now that Top 10 list.
1. I can only assume this is because I looked up the singer Raphael. Instead, they are offering me a song called Raphael by a singer I’ve never heard of. Um… not exactly the same thing.
2. I like the one song I’ve heard by this artist. I’ll give them some points for this.
3. Duh, I just bought a song by her. That took a lot of imagination.
4. I do love Tones on Tail. Good choice. I’ll think about it.
5. We already went over this one.
6. Gah!
7. I own this CD, so points to you, iTunes.
8. As I said, this is a fun song but not one I think I’d listen to very often. Still, good suggestion.
9. I loathe The Tubes, but I guess with my appreciation for 80′s music it would be hard for an algorithm to know this.
10. Since 9 of 10 people do actually dig this song, it’s a good choice statistically. But I’m that other one.

And there you have it.

By: KP

KP — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:40:00 +0000

So you are saying you like Hoobastank then?

By: Becca

Becca — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 04:51:04 +0000

kb, neat, thanks!

Lydia, I didn’t say you couldn’t like them just that I don’t understand why iTunes suggested them to me in particular. They’re supposed to understand my taste after all this time. I did always dig that Nada Surf song, though.

JF, yeah, Napster only works inside the US and, as well, you have to sign up which understandably a lot of people aren’t into. I’m going to try to use the box a lot more now. It’s pretty cool.

Ha! Yes, I should have warned everyone. The two songs I chose are terribly depressing. Don’t let them ruin your day.

Sarpon & Celia, I swear, I didn’t think I’d notice either. That’s why this was so surprising and life-destroying. But at least now I know what I’ll be doing with all that spare time I don’t have.

By: Celia

Celia — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 02:20:51 +0000

Sarpon, I hear you. I consider it a blessing to be undiscriminating in this and a number of other matters (for example, food). I know of someone whose sense of pitch is so precise that she cannot bear to listen to most recorded music because it sounds off-pitch to her and makes her, reportedly, physically ill. That can’t be enjoyable.

By: sarpon

sarpon — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 19:00:54 +0000

So if anyone ever needs an example to explain the saying “ignorance is bliss,” here it is: not only do I not know any of this music, I really can’t distinguish the difference in anything but the most glaring disparity in quality between different formats. I’m the person who still doesn’t understand what they mean by the “hiss” on LPs.

By: JF

JF — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 08:32:50 +0000

PS : you ruined my saturday with this september song.

By: JF

JF — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 08:31:39 +0000

it’s better with this Box thing. I never managed to listen to the songs on napster…

By: Lydia

Lydia — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 00:23:30 +0000

I wish I’d learned about the bitrate business before I ripped my CD collection. Bugger.

And, ummmmm, hey, I like Jimmy Eat World. That’s where my GDT name comes from. But, I know I have sucky taste and I’m all right with that.

By: kb

kb — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 06:14:35 +0000

I just learned about this whole compression and bitrate business in my theatre sound and acoustics class. It really does make a difference.

Hey, for something a little different but pretty darn cool, put your headphones on and listen to this:
http://www.unoriginal.co.uk/holophonics.html