This Is The Problem With iTunes Radio (AAPL)

I had a radio show in college and prided myself on carefully building a playlist for every show. On Saturday nights, I submitted the pastoral town of Harrisonburg, Virginia to my idea of aesthetically pleasing audio. Then Apple introduced its Genius playlist-making feature, in which you select a song and Genius builds a playlist from your library around that song. It worked really well and the job got a lot easier — my weekly task of culling together two hours of music now took no time at all....