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My mp3 player classifies its contents by all this fancy meta stuff, such as “Genre,” “Artist,” “Album,” and several others. Since I use it for podcasts and radio shows and those classifications are for music, they are pretty much irrelevant, except for “Artist.”

For grins and giggles, I decided to look at “Genres.” It contained

    Other
    Unknown Genre
    Blues
    Podcast
    podcast
    podcasts

Aside: It must be running some kind of embedded *nix. It’s case sensitive.

“Blues?” thought I. “There’s no music on this thing.”

But, I found, the player go it right.

It classified all the Talk of the Nation podcasts as “blues.”

And the nation sure is singing the Republican blues.

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