iOS 5: Siri and iTunes Match

Nov 29, '11 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: tchenj

With the advent of iTunes Match and the iPhone's intelligent assistant, Siri, comes an interesting twist on the familiar.

Siri can play music for you from your Music app. That makes sense. What is more interesting, though, is that it can initiate a download for a song if it is only in the cloud, but not on your device.

I deleted my whole music library from my iPhone (having switched to Spotify) and wondered what Siri would do if I asked it to play me a song. I had iTunes Match turned on, and Siri started playing my iTunes Match library like it was on the iPhone. I tried throwing it off by asking it to play an artist that hadn't been downloaded, and it was able to pull down the track. How nifty!

[crarko adds: It does indeed sound quite nifty. Slightly, off-topic, when editing this hint I found the author continually using the pronoun 'she' when referring to Siri. Apple consistently uses 'it,' and I've edited this accordingly. My question to you all is, do you think of Siri as an 'it,' or a 'she?' There may be another poll coming about that, since I find it very interesting (and actually pretty cool) how we anthropomorphize these technologies.]

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