Notes from my terminal

Playing in iTunes, playing with XSLT

The new Party Shuffle feature in Apple's iTunes really fascinates me. Not only will it give you a chance to re-discover your music collection in a new light, it also seems to pick songs that go together well. Want an example? Well, this is what iTunes came up with the other day:

• Tosca: Ocean Beat
• Bjork: Frosti
• Joy Division: These Days
• Yonderboi: The Severance
• Bran Van 3000: Forest
• Barbara Morgenstern: Is
• Thievery Corporation: Interlude
• Tosca: Fuck Dub (Baby Mammoth Mix Nr. 3)
• Fatboy Slim: The Rockafeller Skank
• 2raumwohnung: Wirklich Sein
• Aphex Twin: Une Femme N'est Pas Un Homme (Aphex Twin Mix)
• Autechre: Eidetic Casein
• Tabla Vin: Dayz Trippers (Destination Mix)
• Morcheeba: The Sea
• Cinematic Orchestra: Melody
• Willie Bobo: Fried Neckbones And Some Home Fries (Dan The Automator Remix)
• The Velvet Underground: Sister Ray
• Welle:Erdball: 23... (C=64er Version)

The playlist-to-HTML conversion was done with a XSLT stylesheet that deserves an entry of its own. Posted by jens at May 7, 2004 04:15 PM | TrackBack