Every so often, you’ll get a product review from me. Maybe it’s about iTunes, maybe it’s about an Adobe product, maybe it’s a Firefox extension — who knows, the possibilities are endless! These aren’t paid reviews or even reviews people asked me to write, I simple write them because I find them useful for me to learn more about products and applications, and you get the benefit of hearing me ramble on about products I think are cool. So really it’s a win-win situation…I think….but anyway, this is what I have to say about iTunes.
I’ve been an avid iTunes user for 3 years now. Apple releases a few too many updates to iTunes, in my opinion and some of my colleagues opinions as well. But that’s not the point of this review, I’m here to talk about Party Shuffle (”Shuffle”).
A feature not too many people use, from what I’ve heard, and a feature I don’t use too often. A lot of the times, I like to listen to a specific genre of music or just a specific band. But today, I was in the mood to listen to anything and everything in my library to get some of the older stuff playing that I hadn’t listened to in a while.
So I pulled up the Shuffle feature and I was pleasantly surprised to find that Apple had upgraded the Shuffle control settings and the usability of it.
What are some of the cool features about it now?
A slicker source of where the random tunes actually come from. You can select your whole library, just a single playlist, or even just a specific genre of music and it will throw it into a random loop for you.
The display options are sweet too. You can show how many songs were previously and which songs are upcoming. This is great if you find a song you really like, but forgot you had and now you can remember you have it more easily.
iTunes is an overall great application. Some feel it’s a little bloated for what it does, but I find it very useful and convenient for what I need.
