Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Dear Apple,
I need a mood-sensing iPod to play only songs that fit my mood; otherwise, I must click to skip songs that don’t fit my mood and that annoys me, which puts me in a bad mood. For example:
Doctor My Eyes
Doctor Wu
Does Anybody Know What Time It Is (Chicago Transit Authority album long version)
Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina (Patti LuPone version)
and
Don’t Cry for Me, Eileen
should Not be followed by Helen Reddy scolding me “Don’t Cry Out Loud.” Steve Jobs would have understood this. Get on it, please.
Joe Doakes
All I know is come tax time, my MP3 player ran “Money Changes Everything”, “Gimme Some Money” and “Money (That’s What I Want)” back to back.
If you can find an old Mood Ring, perhaps you could pirate the technology, if you feel like it.
I gave up on “shuffle play” on my music players long ago. You don’t follow Corelli with Black Sabbath … you just don’t.