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I have discovered something cool with Genius of iTunes 8. For users who are fond of using iTunes as players, I'm pretty sure that you have discovered the superlative compilation of same genre of song groupings, which comes in list of 25, 50, 75, and 100 songs per Play List. The Genius works better if you have a iTunes Account for you album cover flows, which automatically upload the missing Album cover as long as the following song info are complete and correct: Name, Artist, Album.

Another cool thing with Genius, it not only limited with iTunes 8. For iPod Touch 2.0+ and iPhone (2.0+) 2G and 3G, Genius is also a Nifty Tool. You can create a Genius Play List of 25 songs and it can be save, edited, and deleted. So let say, next time you want to listen to the same genre of the song “Sugar, We’re Going Down”, all you have to do is play the song from your iPod Touch/ iPhone, tap once the screen and click Genius Logo and you got yourself a newly play list.

Now, check GimmeSomeTunes at Apple Website. This is an extended application for iTunes. It can work on MAC OS X 10.5 or higher. For WIN users, sorry but I'm not sure if this application works with OS 2000 or Vista, since I have religiously become a loyal MAC user. LoLz!

Here is the good news about this App:

Cover Albums
- Even with an account with iTunes, missing Album Covers should be uploaded automatically, but there are times when iTunes can’t process the Album Covers. I’m not sure what causes this, but I notice this prior to installing the GimmeSomeTunes application. Installing GimmeSomeTunes will solve this problem. It worked well with my Cover Flows. Now, I have almost completed all the Cover Albums I needed.

Song Lyrics
- Now this one is my favorite feature of the application. If you are fun with the application of TuneWiki of Cydia, you can now delete that app and sing-a-long your favorite song from your own very iPod list in your iPod Touch/ iPhone’s. With the Help of GimmeSomeTunes and Last FM (Register at Last FM site and add the info under GimmeSomeTunes>Pref’s>Last FM). You can upload lyrics of songs in your iTunes. Play the song at iTunes, open the “show lyrics” panel of GimmeSomeTune. When Lyrics is showed at the Lyrics window, the lyrics will be automatically saved at the “Info sheet/ Get info” of the song file. Don’t forget to Sync the songs or update your songs files from your iPods/ iPhone, before the lyrics will show. Using your iPod Touch/ iPhone play the song and tap the screen of the song being played and the lyrics will appear.

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Note: I have tried uploading lyrics with US Artist, almost everything works, even the newly released song (as long as its available for download at iTunes Store). With OPM Artist, as long as the Artist is listed under Last FM site, Album Covers and Lyrics are available, GimmeSongTunes will upload the Album Covers and Lyrics of Pinoy Albums. As of the JPop, KPop, or others, I have not yet to test.

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As of the Other Features of the GimmeSomeTunes:

Recently Played
- Can be set up with preferred number of recent played songs. Default is 5 # of songs last played.

Mini Controller
- I don’t think I need to explaine.

Appearance
- Setting preferred font style, size, and color for the Lyrics (only visible with Lyrics and iChat).

iTunes Control
- Play, Pause, Next/Previous Song, Toggle Shuffle, and Rating.

Once GimmeSomeTunes is installed it will appear in Applications and a “Note Icon” will be shown on the right top corner, beside the Wifi, Spaces, Bluetooth Icons.

Enjoy!