http://www.macrumors.com/2008/09/03/itunes-8-playlist-recommendations-visualizations/

With Apple's announcement that the company will be holding a special media event on September 9th, we're reminded that Kevin Rose was the first source of the September 9th date.

Rose originally reported that we would see new iPod nanos and small cosmetic changes to the iPod Touch in September, but also revealed that iTunes 8 would arrive as a "big update" with new features. Later when he revealed the September 9th date, he described a new music recommendation feature within iTunes 8, but gave few details. An anonymous tip has since suggested that this "genius playlist" feature would be able to generate a playlist based on the qualities of a selected song, giving a Pandora-like experience with your own music library. This, however, remains unconfirmed and is published for interest only.

Finally, Rose said yesterday that iTunes 8.0 have new "trippy" visualizations with one described as "planet like objects wrapping around each other with stars/light streams".

Apple's media event takes place at 10am Pacific time on September 9th, and according to Cult of Mac, Apple has uncharacteristically told at least one journalist that the event is "a big deal and [he] should try to be there".

http://twitter.com/kevinrose/statuses/907054263

these sound like nice features. looking forward to finding out about them soon

yeah, this is "a big deal", the itunes 8 playlist thing seems kind of interesting

well, we don't know how 'big' this really is yet

sounds pretty cool. once again it says that it will be released on sept 9.

well, the rumor is that this will get released, and get released on sept 9th. we'll see

cool

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