{"id":4507,"date":"2008-09-10T10:36:46","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T17:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=4507"},"modified":"2019-12-23T11:03:44","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T19:03:44","slug":"jazzy-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/09\/10\/jazzy-genius\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazzy Genius"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5217,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.tuaw.com\\\/2008\\\/09\\\/09\\\/my-itunes-genius-is-a-moron&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5218,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/itunes\\\/whatsnew&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/itunes\\\/whatsnew&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>While there&#8217;s been some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuaw.com\/2008\/09\/09\/my-itunes-genius-is-a-moron\" title=\"TUAW: My iTunes Genius is a Moron\">grousing about the accuracy<\/a> of iTunes 8&#8217;s new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/itunes\/whatsnew\/\" title=\"Apple: iTunes: What's New\">Genius<\/a> feature, I&#8217;m getting a kick out of playing with it. Sure, it&#8217;s not always spot-on (though Apple says that will change over time as their database grows and the matching AI improves), but that lends a certain entertainment value to the playlists it generates. When it works, though, it&#8217;s <em>slick<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a playlist my iPod just put together (pulling only from songs that happened to be loaded at the time), seeding off of Tony Bennett&#8217;s take on &#8220;Steppin&#8217; Out With My Baby&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Tony Bennett, &#8220;Steppin&#8217; Out With My Baby&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Frank Sinatra, &#8220;Nice &#8216;n&#8217; Easy&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Bobby Darin, &#8220;More&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Johnny Mathis, &#8220;Chances Are&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Dean Martin, &#8220;You Belong to Me&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Fred Astaire, &#8220;The Way You Look Tonight&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The Andrews Sisters, &#8220;Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Marilyn Monroe, &#8220;Diamonds Are A Girl&#8217;s Best Friend&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Billie Holiday, &#8220;All of Me&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Perry Como, &#8220;Magic Moments&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Louis Armstrong, &#8220;West End Blues&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Louis Jordan, &#8220;Let the Good Times Roll&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Benny Goodman, &#8220;Swingtime in the Rockies&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Frank Sinatra, &#8220;Witchcraft&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The Glenn Miller Orchestra, &#8220;At Last&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Bobby Darin, &#8220;Hello, Dolly!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Billie Holiday, &#8220;Spreadin&#8217; Rhythm Around (Remix)&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Tony Bennett, &#8220;(I Left My Heart In) San Francisco&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Dean Martin, &#8220;That&#8217;s Amore&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Louis Armstrong, &#8220;Ain&#8217;t Misbehavin'&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Duke Ellington, &#8220;Take the A-Train&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Judy Garland, &#8220;The Man That Got Away&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The Andrews Sisters, &#8220;Rum and Coca-Cola&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Billie Holiday, &#8220;God Bless the Child&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Frank Sinatra, &#8220;You Make Me Feel So Young&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Not bad at all, I&#8217;d say.<\/p>\n<p>(I also love that I just happened to have the songs on my iPod to build that kind of playlist. It&#8217;s semi-randomly loaded, so there&#8217;s often no real telling what might be on there at any given time. Hmmm&#8230;it may be about time to do another &#8220;here&#8217;s how I organize my music&#8221; post&#8230;.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a playlist my iPod just put together (pulling only from songs that happened to be loaded at the time), seeding off of Tony Bennett&#8217;s take on &#8216;Steppin&#8217; Out With My Baby&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039,2035],"tags":[118,80,65],"class_list":["post-4507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-music","tag-apple","tag-music","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}