iTunes Assumes

@FourWalls (86575)
United States
August 8, 2015 6:02pm CST
I'm sure you've heard that old expression, "when you assume you make an ASS of U and ME." The iTunes on my computer has taken to assuming, and I don't like it. It "assumes" that, because I rate a song with 4 or 5 stars, that I think everything on the album should have that rating. Not hardly. As a good example, both my all-time favorite and all-time LEAST favorite Eagles song are on the same album (Hotel California: "The Last Resort" is my favorite, and "Life in the Fast Lane" is my least favorite). I'm also so sick of hearing the song "Hotel California" that I don't even have it on my iPod anymore. But good ol' iTunes thinks I like every song on that album as much as "The Last Resort." I have to figure out how to stop iTunes from doing that. It's annoying.
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inertia4
@inertia4 (27978)
• United States
9 Aug 15
I think they call it recommendations. Not assuming. But I know what you mean. And if you think Apple is the only one that does that, you are mistaken. If you rate the album, then it is taken that you like the entire album. From what I know, you can rate just the songs you want.
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Four Walls
@FourWalls (86575)
• United States
9 Aug 15
No, it's not the store that's doing it. I don't rate albums, I rate individual songs, and what it's doing is rating every song on the album for me based on what I rate one or two songs. I don't buy things from the iTunes store generally -- I patronize artists' websites or rely on my record collection. Maybe that's what throwing poor iTunes off!
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inertia4
@inertia4 (27978)
• United States
9 Aug 15
@FourWalls I haven't actually rated anything so I don't know if they do that. But I love iTunes. And I love the new Apple Music. I have access to the entire library.
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Four Walls
@FourWalls (86575)
• United States
9 Aug 15
@inertia4 I don't use that feature, for one very important reason: there is A LOT of music that has never made it to CD in its original form. A good example is a song by Johnny Russell (who wrote "Act Naturally," which the Beatles covered for some reason): I love his song "Catfish John," but the only version of that available on CD is a re-recorded version about 20 years after the original single was released. I don't want my original version replaced with a good quality but grossly inferior version.
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