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The Beatles arrive on iTunes
Ladies and gentleman, it’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for. Yes, after years and years of lawsuits, arguments, and rumors, the Beatles have finally put their music collection up on iTunes. They’ve got a whole page on iTunes devoted to their music, their performances, and their ads. What’s interesting, though, it that I was able to see them on the store at 8:45AM Central Time, which is a good hour and fifteen minutes before Apple’s website announcement said it would be.
Genius now works with The Beatles
When Apple debuted their song mix-creating Genius feature in iTunes, one of its more famous problem was the songs it didn’t work with. Obscure artists, albums that weren’t commercially available, and The Beatles. There were a few other major artists (AC/DC) who didn’t work with the nifty new gadget.
Well, that changed at some point, because after failing to create a playlist from Pat Suzuki’s melancholy “How High the Moon,” (now out of print) I clicked on “Oh! Darling” by the Fab Four and was greeted with a none-too-bad playlist that shifted through Floyd, Queen, and Bowie. I then tried it with “Revolution 9″ and got a pop-up asking me if I was seriously trying to create a playlist based on that. Okay, not really. Here’s what that gave me…















