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Finetune Desktop: A Casual Review

I'll try anything that has the potential to broaden and refine my musical interests and allow me to share those interests with other audio-enthusiats...so after reading the story I decided to give Finetune Desktop a whirl. I was very impressed...and a little perturbed with this application. My main criticism is that it has a rather slow and "clunky" feel to it at first and
the strict three-song-per-artist limitation when creating a playlist was very annoying...regardless of the professed legalistic rationale behind it. I also didn't like the fact that playback of your playlist is entirely random sequentially. That sucks! The whole art and beauty of creating a playlist of any personal value to me...is completely predicated upon the foundation of the sequencing order of the playlist I have created for my enjoyment. Finetune doesn't respect that! So all the effort I put into creating a sonic soundscape where the musical selections I have chosen creatively evolve into an intentional tapestry as the music progresses from one tune to the next by my own design...is wasted! The carefully chosen track order and musical mood I endeavored to color and shape is butchered by Finetune's random playback! I don't want a musical slot-machine experience...I want what I created...in the order I created it in...thank you very much! That's what I wanted to share with others...the musical mood experience I created by virtue of the selection order of the tracks I have chosen to place in my playlist. Is that too much to ask? The musical transition from Mountain's "Nantuckett Sleighride" thru Muddy Waters' "All Aboard" to Connie Dover's "The Wishing Well" can be an entirely delightful and sonically logical evolution if it's played in the order that I created it in. Otherwise it's just another pile of musical trash littering up my sonic soundscape...I can get that nasty annoyance anywhere...just by turning on the nearest automated radio station. The true pleasure is in the actual order that an envelopment of music arrives in at my ears.
So Finetune has got to get that right first! Otherwise it's just another unnecessary piece of junk software in my opinion.

Posted by: michaelleo@...   Posted on: 03/24/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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