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Genius and iTunes

Saturday, September 13th, 2008

Ran right out and upgraded iTunes recently, getting the new version 8. Usually this is a mistake, as things often go terribly wrong for me in this regard, but it wasn’t eventful this time. Guess I was lucky I had XP instead of Vista. I setup Genius first thing. Well, almost first thing cause it took over an hour. :) At first I wasn’t impressed. Giving me links to the store with similar music. Big deal, easily done once you gather everyones listening habits. But then I found the Genius button at the bottom that creates a playlist of your music that will go nicely together with the currently selected song. It’s pretty good stuff, and fast! Here’s the first playlist it put together for me.

Name Artist
I Will Follow You Into The Dark Death Cab for Cutie
The Sound Of Settling Death Cab For Cutie
Ocean Breathes Salty Modest Mouse
I’m Shakin’ Rooney
Gold Lion Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Hands Down Dashboard Confessional
The Underdog Spoon
Swing Life Away Rise Against
Oh It Is Love Hellogoodbye
Flathead The Fratellis
You Only Live Once The Strokes
Best Of Me The Starting Line
My Doorbell The White Stripes
Marching Bands Of Manhattan Death Cab for Cutie
Flake Jack Johnson
A Lack Of Color Death Cab For Cutie
Say It Ain’t So Weezer
Dashboard Modest Mouse
Australia The Shins
Chocolate Snow Patrol
Girl Beck
Time Won’t Let Me Go The Bravery
work Jimmy Eat World
Lazy Eye Silversun Pickups
The Adventure Angels & Airwaves

Browsers and plugins

Thursday, June 2nd, 2005

What is it with browser plugins that make them destroy an otherwise useful system? Example, on my notebook, with XP and Firefox, I can’t make use of the Acrobat PDF viewer. It takes about 3 minutes to load a PDF (no matter what size), renders my browser unusable during that time, and usually crashes the browser totally afterwards. Next is my AMD64 Gentoo system using Mozilla and mplayerplug-in. If I view a WMV file I don’t have the codec for (normally WMV10), it will sometimes play the audio without video, and totally segfault the browser when I close that window, or press back. In my book, a plugin shouldn’t crash the entire browser session. Just a worthless design I guess.

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