Apple’s iTunes 6 introduced a new “Just For You” feature in the iTunes Music Store that offered “personalized recommendations tailored to your musical preferences.”
Well, multiple MacDailyNews and iPodDailyNews readers have noticed that “Just For You” is no longer available in the iTunes Music Store. Apple.com’s iTunes web page still describes “Just For You” – “Want some listening suggestions? Look no further than the Just For You section, where recommendations come personalized according to your musical preferences.”
And just when we were about to buy something called “The Essential Rosemary Clooney” that iTunes’ “Just For You” had suggested because we once bought some early Liz Phair.
iTunes Music Store’s “Just For You” might just be “in the shop,” AWOL, or something else. Let us know if you find any additional info ().
[UPDATE 4:22pm ET: Boy, we screwed this one up! Sorry. “Just For You” does indeed exist in the iTunes Music Store. It has just been removed from the “Inside the Music Store” list along with its orange “NEW” tag. “Just For You” (Beta) is located on the home page of the iTMS, just below “New Releases.” Remember, if you click the link “Turn Just For You Off” at the bottom of the iTMS home page, you’ll need to click “Turn Just For You On” in the same location to view the recommendations.]
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i’m still getting “Just For You” in my itunes. not a problem.
Got it here too!
It is still in finland iTunes store
Still works for me!
This is an example of stretching for news
still got it…although my wife buys things on my account so the software must be awfully confused trying to figure out our divergent tastes.
iPodDN does bring up a good point though: some of the suggestions from “Just For You” are ridiculous!
I think they need to work on it some more.
S – L – O – W – W – W – W – W . . .
N – E – W – S – S – S – S . . .
D – A – Y – Y – Y – Y – Y – Y – Y – Y – Y – Y – Y – ! – ! – ! – ! – !
I say we put a moritorium on “slow news day” posts. This is a site that gives about an article every hour…of course some are going to be a bit light. Who cares! The point it that news keeps flowing here like a river.
I don’t care, the feature doesn’t really work too well anyway…
hey! no wisecracks about rosemary clooney. she was a pretty good, serious singer, you have probably only heard her pop stuff.
It seems to be missing from my iTunes..and I don’t want it back either. I have enough people telling me what I should do or not do.
I have it too, I’ve only bought two songs so it doen’t work well. I wish it could scan my 60 gb of music and go from there.
Mine had gone away for a few hours on the first day it was around, but now it seems to have stuck. Also the suggestions are only based on what you have bought from the store including the free downloads, so they might not be your taste. Also I already owned most of the music that I like so I only buy other stuff from the store so it would be hard for them to give me any suggestions from my purchases. They should make an option to turn this off and put back the “just added” section if you want.
Update or no update .. and iTunes
I’ve never seen the ‘Just For You’ feature on my iTunes 6. Not once. Are there perhaps circumstances under which it does not appear?
On a side note, what’s up with Liz Phair? Her first album was so good, and now she’s…not! It’s hard to believe it’s the same person! Come back Liz, we miss you!
Don’t feel bad about the screw up. I love MacDailyNews!!!! PARTY!!!!!!
“I’ve never seen the ‘Just For You’ feature on my iTunes 6. Not once. Are there perhaps circumstances under which it does not appear?”
I haven’t seen this feature either…
I. However, I have not actually purchased anything from the store. Only downloaded the weekly freebies.
(We have a huge collection of CDs (about 3300), and just use iTunes to manage our music, though some of the freebies have made me interested in trying buying online, but actually, we repeatedly found enough songs from the album of interest, so we buy the CD at Amazon and rip it at 160kbps instead. It’s worth a few days wait for the higher quality… Of course, we have a G5 iMac (first gen) and a 1TB LaCie firewire drive attached to it, so we have a ton of storage capacity,.)
jeeze – MDN really Vingled that one!
meh!
Understood. Yeah, I have all CD only music in there, too.
Whelp, maybe they need a special ‘Window-Shopper Just for You’ for folks like us. You know .. based on our sampling in the iTMS. But then, I sample from every country’s iTMS so I guess that wouldn’t work. Plus, because I do visit all the stores regularly .. even if I could see the ‘Just For You’, a ‘Just For You’ which only showed one country’s selections would perhaps annoy me, I suspect.
oh well ::sigh::
Still works for me, but MDN has disappeared.
Not sure if mine is working: It suggests I buy an album by “Camper Van Beethovan”?
Whatever.
Here’s hoping some real news happens soon MDN.
Actually, why couldn’t there be ‘Just For You’ based on whatever the heck is in your iTunes Library?
I notice that the ‘Shared’ iTunes items from others on my local area network all appear in my own iTunes Shared listings with search based links to music in the iTMS now. Mostly they seem to send me to a generic artist page based on the artists of the individual tracks, but occassionally they take me right to the correct album. This happens for any old song, regardless how it was acquired or put into iTunes by the person who has the originating Library on their computer.
This is new, right? I hadn’t looked at any Shared libraries on a LAN for a while, so maybe I missed it earlier?
and the ‘Look For Shared Music’ setting is now selected as the default setting in iTunes 6? That’s new too, correct?
Well these reporters arnt to bright, or they really need there eyes checked because it is still there and exactly the same.