Apple Patents: Tailoring Music Playback and Dynamically Prolonging Battery Life on iPods and iPhones

This sounds awesome. Dynamically changing the list of songs based upon what I listen to and how I listen would make scrolling through my playlists a breeze.

Who votes "negative" on stuff like this?!

This is a good idea. Goodbye, intro to Teenage Riot. No need to fast forward through J vs. S to get the correct playcount on Shady Lane. Et cetera.

That's pretty neat. Like the dimming of rarely listened to songs, and the video adjustment is very cool.

This sounds awesome. Dynamically changing the list of songs based upon what I listen to and how I listen would make scrolling through my playlists a breeze.

I really wish, in particular, Genius had a thumbs up/down feature like Pandora. I generally think the mixes are quite good, but the major problems are (1) that mixes from the same starting song are almost always the same, in spite of having >6000 songs on my iPhone, and (2) they frequently contain one or two songs that I really don't like (usually freebies I picked up from the iTunes Store), and yet even though I skip them, they keep getting populated into the list.

sounds sort of nice (if implemented properly, software that tries to guess what you want do can be more annoying then useful) but at the same time i really can't understand how this kind of stuff can be patented.

Maybe it's just me, but this is really exciting to me.

Sounds like it could be good.
For songs with long intros or long outros, i just adjust the song length to where it begins/ends via the Cmd-I in iTunes.

This sounds awesome. Dynamically changing the list of songs based upon what I listen to and how I listen would make scrolling through my playlists a breeze.

Who votes "negative" on stuff like this?!

I do. Any software that tries to be "helpful" based on past behaviour tends to get it completely wrong and ends up very annoying.

Take the "skip beginning" bit: So I tried to compare the quality of 128 KBit and 192 KBit encoding. Ripped the same song twice, then played both copies repeatedly, always skipping a minute of music to get to a complex part where I hoped to hear a difference. Did that ten times in a row, then deleted the 128 KBit copy. Result: The stupid "clever" software makes it impossible for me to listen to the first minute of the song!

This is the kind of behaviour that Microsoft regularly gets complaints about. Like from a university professor who entered grades into Excel; first three students had an A+, and based on this Excel "helpfully" changed the grades of the next five students from A to A+ because obviously the professor wanted to enter an A+ as before.

In my personal life, Amazon never, ever will forget which three books about a related subject I bought for my daughter as a Christmas present, and it continuously asks me if I want more related books. No, I don't ****ing want _any_ books about this, and three is enough for my daughter, and she has moved on to something else anyway. And the music that I buy from iTunes is very often purchased to fill gaps in my collection, so I might have the best, second best, and third best album of an artist on CD and buy the fourth best on iTunes. So if you judge my music taste by my purchases, you may go very wrong.

And if I play some music twice, its usually because I got a phone call after it started and I missed most of it, so I play it again. So the songs in an album that are played twice are not the ones that are best or that I like best, they are the ones where I got interrupted.

The only good idea is adjusting movie playback to battery life.

This is why Apple software sells the hardware and why other vendors copy it... the enhancement of user experience combined with great hardware... the combination is what makes the differene...

How about an easier solution.. a better battery ?