Timber got some new headphones last week and while I don't really like the style of them (in ear headphones) I started playing around with the iTunes Equalizer while testing them out. I could totally hear the difference while using the different equalizer settings. But it got me thinking, and I always know this means trouble when I start with "It would be cool if..." In this case, it would be cool if you could tell iTunes to automatically set the equalizer setting to the genre of the song. It should be easy since all songs (more or less) have a genre. And it would optimize the sound of each song which is always good. Since I figured it was obvious I played around with the iTunes settings trying to find it. No luck. Then I figured some people had the same idea and figured out a way to do it, so I searched the web. No luck. Then I figured I could do it myself via Automator. Automator is pretty good for doing basic stuff but it couldn't do the job in this case. Again no luck. Finally I had to sort the songs by genre and then set the equalizer setting en mass per genre. It wasn't pretty but it only took 2 minutes to do. In the meantime I'll put in a feature request and we'll see what year this functionality gets put into iTunes.
Posted by troutm8 at March 1, 2007 11:01 PM