More time to kill while waiting for some real work to do.
I made some premature complaints about the Instant Mix feature in Google Music Beta. Now that I've had a full 24 hours to upload tunes, I'm seeing that it does work better than what I saw with the first couple of experiments. With that said, however, I'm still not excited about this. It seems to be a rip off of Apple's Genius setting, and I don't care for that. What Instant Mix does is it takes a single seed song and creates a playlist of 25 tracks based on that one song. Kinda cool, but it's not that big of a deal. You can only build off of one song, and it's a finite playlist. When it's done you have to go do another one, and sure you can save it, but it's still a static playlist.
To address my complaints from yesterday, I do think the implementation of Instant Mix is wrong. If Google doesn't have enough data to build an instant playlist out of the available data, it should simply say so. Not fail over to unrelated crap.
The reason I'm not excited about this feature is that I've used AudioGalaxy's genie mode. It's similar in concept, in that you generate an automatic playlist. Where AudioGalaxy wins is in the implementation. Your seed data is up to the last 5 tracks played, so you've got a larger variety of data to build from. The playlist is dynamic, meaning that as you are playing your music, your options for the next upcoming tracks are constantly being updated. You have a list of the next 5 options, so you can modify them if you choose, but that's optional. You can let it run indefinitely, and you will have a constantly building music list based on what's already been played. This also causes the playlist to continually evolve. If you choose to save these tracks as a playlist, you certainly have that option.
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