{"id":4064,"date":"2010-11-03T07:37:28","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T14:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=4064"},"modified":"2010-11-03T07:37:28","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T14:37:28","slug":"stuck-in-the-70s-80s-90s-00s-the-itunes-genius-playlist-generator-cant-make-associations-across-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2010\/11\/03\/stuck-in-the-70s-80s-90s-00s-the-itunes-genius-playlist-generator-cant-make-associations-across-decades\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuck in the 70s, 80\u2032s, 90\u2032s, 00\u2032s: the iTunes Genius playlist generator can\u2019t make associations across decades."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite things about music is how clearly it adheres to the dialectical mode of thesis (let&#8217;s use more synthesizers!), antithesis (no, let&#8217;s use more guitars!)  and synthesis (LCD Soundsystem). For that reason, some of the most exciting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=4701169\">mixtapes<\/a> or playlists are those that make connections across time and space, revealing how musical artists quote one another, whether consciously or not, approvingly or as a critique. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been impressed with the Apple iTunes Genius playlist generator lately which I assume uses software sound analysis along with social or human filtering to generate associations between recordings. But it fails utterly at creating playlists that span across time. It&#8217;s a failing that once revealed all but completely undermines the &#8220;genius&#8221; moniker. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite things about music is how clearly it adheres to the dialectical mode of thesis (let&#8217;s use more synthesizers!), antithesis (no, let&#8217;s use more guitars!) and synthesis (LCD Soundsystem). For that reason, some of the most exciting mixtapes or playlists are those that make connections across time and space, revealing how musical&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}