It has always been a pain for me to create playlists of my favorite songs. When making compilation CDs, it is so hard to find the right songs that will sound great when played simultaneously. Most of the time you leave out some good songs, especially when you have an almost 80 GB music collection like, ehem, me!

Now, iTunes have come up with a “genius” solution to this problem. Literally, Genius is one of the newest features of the latest release of iTunes. It creates the perfect playlist from your song selection. All you have to do is select a song and click the Genius button. From that, iTunes generates a playlist from your library that sounds great with the song that you chose. And it works really great. Here is a sample playlist that I generated using Genius. In this case, I selected “Ang Huling El Bimbo” by The Eraserheads:

• Ang Huling El Bimbo – The Eraserheads
• Harana -Parokya ni Edgar
• Nakapagtataka – Sponge Cola
• Kailan – MYMP
• Before I Let You Go – Freestyle
• So Slow – Freestyle
• Kahit Kailan – South Border
• Pare Ko – The Eraserheads
• Especially For You – MYMP
• Buloy – Parokya ni Edgar
• Through The Fire – Nina
• Hinahanap Hanap Kita – Rivermaya
• Much Has Been Said – Bamboo
• Fruitcake – The Eraserheads
• Princesa – 6 Cycle Mind
• Batang Bata Ka Pa – Sugar Free
• Tell Me Where It Hurts – MYMP
• Tuwing Umuulan At Kapiling Ka – The Eraserheads
• High – The Speaks
• Ang Aking Awitin – Side A
• Oo – Up Dharma Down
• The Day You said Good Night – Hale
• Kisapmata – Rivermaya
• Overdrive – The Eraserheads
• Sayang – Parokya Ni Edgar

If you will notice, I chose an OPM song to test Genius and look at the result. The playlist incuded all OPM songs. And when I played all the songs simultaneously, surprisingly it really sounded great together. For me, it is really just fitting to call the feature Genius. Kudos to Steve and all the folks at Cupertino for another job well done.