FWIW, there was some controversy earlier in the year about a new iTunes 6.0.2 feature called Mini Store that was (originally) turned on by default and sent data about your listening habits to Apple's servers. Some info & links: http://michaelzimmer.org/2006/01/12/latest-itunes-update-raises- privacy-issues/ http://michaelzimmer.org/2006/01/18/itunes-now-asks-for-consent- before-collecting-data/ Not sure if Apple does/could/should use this data (if sent by users) to help improve their randomization algorithms... -m ----- Michael T. Zimmer Doctoral Candidate, Culture and Communication, New York University Student Fellow, Information Law Institute, NYU Law School e: michael.zimmer@nyu.edu w: http://michaelzimmer.org On Sep 17, 2006, at 5:00 PM, Stephanie Jo Kent wrote:
Ok. Here's the deal. I'm really dumb about a lot of this stuff. I just updated iTunes to 7.0. Did a Party Shuffle. I'm wondering about the "randomness factor". Specifically, the chances that a sequence of several songs would fall into sync?
I'm interested in qualitative answers as well as any quantitative results. For instance, is there some snoop software that reads my measurable statistics in relation to online music?
steph http://www.reflexivity.us
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