The problem I discovered is that my laptop doesn’t have the ratings for most of my music. iTunes stores the ratings in a library file, not in the song files themselves, and that file didn’t make the transfer. This is annoying, but I won’t get into that because that is an iTunes issue.
It’s just that ratings and play counts are how tuneDNA is supposed to work, so I had to play around with things for a little while in order to get enough info to feed tuneDNA.
I rated about twenty songs and listened to a bunch of music this weekend. I hoped that between the ratings and play counts that there might be enough to get something from tuneDNA. Well I did get something back, but it was not what I was expecting. The suggestions were… well… off. I recognized almost all of the music, but I recognized it as music I wasn’t excited about. I’d be able to comfortably bear listening to about ten percent of the music it suggests, the rest would leave me angry and/or annoyed.
I don’t want to write off tuneDNA too soon. As more people use it the suggestions should get better, and as I continue to (re)rate my music things should get better too. That doesn’t change the fact that right now it is useless to me. Registration was easy, getting the info from iTunes was also easy, so I don’t feel like it was a huge investment of time that I lost, but I’ll probably wait a month or so before trying it again.
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