9/16/2005
Apple iTunes Takes a Hint
From the 'I Told You So' Files ...
A few months ago, I posted a response to a blog about the lack of user-friendliness in some areas of the Apple/Mac experience. I outlined a machine learning example of how to increase the user-friendliness of iTunes by offering different modes of random shuffle and ways to make the randomness ‘learn’ the user’s preferences through feedback. iTunes v5.0, released last week adds two ways to customize the randomness of it’s shuffle.
It doesn’t give a whole lot of granularity, but its a start.
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