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Posted in nerdliness on Apr 29th, 2008
In Random Is As Random Does, I talked about how I configured some smart playlists in iTunes to provide a better random sample of the music I most wanted to hear from my MP3 collection. Basically I created smart playlists for the least played tracks, the least recently played tracks, the most played tracks, the [...]
Posted in diversions on Mar 9th, 2008
Having grown up listening to The Beatles I am hugely pleased by the “McCartney reported inks deal with Apple” headline over at Ars Technica. No time frame yet of when the catalog will appear on iTunes, but I would suspect this will make a great “one more thing” bit at this years WWDC.
Posted in nerdliness on Apr 2nd, 2004
I recently downloaded iTunes PlayStats. Maybe not the most significant piece of software inhabiting my PowerBook, but fun nonetheless.
Posted in nerdliness on May 14th, 2003
In this press release, Apple announces that they’ve sold over 2 million songs in the 16 days since the iTunes Music store went live. By my math that’s an average of 1.44 songs per second. Steve Jobs says that over half the songs downloaded from the service so far are part of an album purchase, [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Apr 30th, 2003
Like the rest of the Mac world I have upgraded to the latest release of iTunes, which includes a new pay-per-track music store. While I haven’t made any purchases yet it seems like Apple has hit the center of the target with this feature. It’s Napster only legal. In Napster’s heyday I participated and collected [...]
