Bose's uMusic

Bose doesn't exactly have the most stellar reputation with audiophiles, but they're taking a stab at the market for home digital audio servers with their new uMusic system, which has a hard drive with space to store up to 350 CDs
(which doesn't sound like much room to us — maybe they're storing them as uncompressed files to prevent any loss in sound quality). Anyway, the main feature of uMusic isn't that it can store music on a hard drive (that isn't too hard to do), it's that it has some special software which learns from your listening habits, keeping tabs on which songs you skip over, which you play more often, and lets you tag each song with positive or negative ratings. It then can 
create automated playlists based on your tastes (something which can be problematic if more than one person uses the stereo). iTunes and other programs do similar stuff, but Bose says that uMusic is meant for people who don't want to have to deal with connecting their computer to their stereo, which no matter how much it pains us to admit it, is still most people.

[Via GigaOm]