MoodShuffle: Artificially Intelligent DJ Works with iTunes

The iPod spawned a massive side market in accessories; these days, the same thing is going on with iTunes, as developers add artificial playlist creators that purport to help you rediscover the music in your iTunes library.

One of the latest entries is MoodShuffle, which understands where iTunes puts your music, and how it stores song metadata. Hear a song you like, and you do nothing, and hit fast forward when you hear something you don't like. By doing those things alone, you'll evidently be telling MoodShuffle enough about your mood for it to be able to select the right songs.

Right now, the program is for OS X only, but a Windows version is apparently on the way. Here's a description from MoodShuffle and a screenshot of the app's simple interface:

"MoodShuffle uses a fuzzy logic engine to dynamicallydetermine what mood you are in. MoodShuffle is able to figure out ifyou want to hear your newer music, higher rated music, songs youhaven't heard in a while, and on and on. Each song in your iTuneslibrary has specific data tied to it. Like when it was recorded, whenyou added it to your library, how many times you listened to it,
etc.... If you listen to a song, it tries to play similar songs. If youskip a song, it finds songs that are different from the skipped tunes."