Yeah, who hasn’t fallen in love with the DJ. The DJ who mixes the music you love so much and gets it just right.
You thought I was talking about that one on the radio didn’t you. Ha. I am referring to the really cool iTunes DJ. Trust me no radio DJ could mix what I listen to. For one, no station would allow it. They are all so format restrictive. Not even some of the independents could get it like I like it. I such a varied collection of music that they would be fired for trying it. Once in a while I run across a station that careens wildly from one extreme genre to another. Not very often. So I love the DJ in iTunes. It chooses 15 songs to play and as it finishes one it adds another. I get to see the list of upcoming selections and time my activities around them so I can be closer for my more favorite songs, unlike shuffle where you get a random-ish selection but you never know what’s next. Don’t get me wrong, I make heavy use of this feature in other circumstances as well.
I was voicing my love of the iTunes DJ and some very nice Apple Salesperson expressed how if I loved that, had I tried the Genius feature.
No. Sorry. I’m not really that interested in dealing with a schizophrenic computer program. I really don’t think it will cope very well if, as my sample songs I give it Andre Segovia and Def Leppard. It might freak a little over the Carpenters and U2. Abba and the Dropkick Murphys, the Eglish Guitar Quartet and Los Straightjackets. Yeah, I do that to my computer and I’ll be needing to get it pyschoanalysis. Seriously. I just went from Andre Segovia playing Eight Lessons for the Guitar – No. 8 in E minor to Gary Hoey playing Stomp and Shake from the Endless SummerII soundtrack. Ah, and now my all time favorite. King Harvest playing Dancin’ in the Moonlight. In in a few minutes I’ll be listening to Ladysmith Black Mambazo followed by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band.
I like using this feature better than trying to create play lists and spending hours trying to decide what song is going to sound best after that song and then what should come next. I’ve done that. Anyone remember mix tapes? Cassettes that you put together your favorite songs from either other tapes or vinyl? Yeah. You had to time it just right so that you didn’t have too much time between songs. You didn’t what to waste too many of those precious seconds of that 30 minute or 45 minute side.
I do use the shuffle feature on my iPod. It, by itself doesn’t have a DJ. In this case the shuffle is a reasonably acceptable substitute. It’s just not the same as the DJ. sigh. Still, in my car it would be better than what I do now. Put a cd in and listen to it for a week straight and then find another and rotate the same 5 or so cd’s. I have got to get a stereo in my car that will let me hook up my iPod. There isn’t much on the radio these days except NPR. Hey, that’s where I first heard Gogol Bordello.
No, no Genius and no DJ on the radio is ever going be as good as my personal DJ in iTunes. It’s just way better. Now I’m off to chill to some Louis Jordan and the Beach Boys, the Tossers, Elton John and Cher, and whoever else pops up.
Chees
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