First thoughts/experience on The Filter

[thewayne]

They've got a bit of a way to go. I have almost 6,600 songs in my iTunes library, most are my CDs but also include Russet's collection. I installed the software (the installation verification took longer than the download), registered, let it upload my library list, then told it to go for Dire Strait's So Far Away. Here's what it came up with:

So Far Away (Dire Straits/Brothers In Arms)
Vic And Ray (Mark Knopfler/Golden Heart)
Nothing But Time (Jackson Browne/Running On Empty)
Rain Is Falling (Electric Light Orchestra/Time)
Between Sun & Moon (Rush/Counterparts)
Breakfast in America (Supertramp/Breakfast in America)
The Best of Times (Styx/Greatest Hits)
Jezebel (10,000 Maniacs/Our Time in Eden)
Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Neil Young/Greatest Hits)
Mother's Daughter (Santana/Abraxas)
Bones (Joe Walsh/There Goes The Neighborhood)
Bitter Tears (INXS/X)
Fil de fer (Cirque du Soleil/Cirque du Soleil)
We Work The Black Seam (Sting/The Dream Of The Blue Turtles)
Day After Day (Pretenders/The Singles)

It also added Frank Zappa's Yellow Snow, I deleted it from the list.

I can't say that I'm too impressed. So Far Away is a low-key, bluesy song. I don't think anything else on that list is a very good companion for it. At least it had the sense to grab a Mark Knopfler song to go with it.

Next up: let's see what it does with the Devo Corporate Anthem! I'm hoping that some Emmerson, Lake & Palmer and some Kraftwerk will make the list.