[Air-l] iTunes 7.0

[Michael Zimmer]

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


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Michael T. Zimmer
  Doctoral Candidate, Culture and Communication, New York University
  Student Fellow, Information Law Institute, NYU Law School
e: michael.zimmer at nyu.edu
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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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