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It’s amazing how the simplest ideas sometimes turn out to be the most fun. DJ Jones is a music trivia game based on your own music collection. Anyone can wax poetic about the Beatles and the Stones, but how well do you really know everything on your iPod? If you’re sporting a 32GB full of tunes, it’s entirely possible the answer is “not much.” DJ Jones is here to help you fix that problem.

Deceptively simple, DJ Jones will play a song from somewhere in the middle of the track and you’ll have to guess which song it is from 5 multiple choice possibilities. Both the song and the possibilities will come from your own iPod music library, so the game can’t possibly throw you any curveballs. When you fail a song, DJ Jones kicks you out of the game and into it’s own music player, letting you enjoy the rest of the tune to better get to know your collection.

The gameplay doesn’t offer much beyond those basics. Scoring is based on how long it takes you to answer, and the game ends after you get a wrong answer — it’s as simple as that. Since version 2.0 was released back in October, DJ Jones has been Plus+ enabled. This means you can earn achievements and compete for high score against other music junkie friends with ease. And if you’re looking to test friends and family on your musical tastes, you can create your own custom playlists to put their ears to the test.

Once you’re in the app’s music player, a number of smart on-screen controls will let you cruise through your music collection with ease. Swiping left will take you back a tune, swiping right will move you a head. Swiping near the top of the screen will adjust the volume. It’s the sort of simple, intuitive controls that you can’t help but wish the native iPod music player offered.

If you’re going to complain about the bare bones gameplay in DJ Jones, you’re probably missing the point. DJ Jones is less about being a game and more about helping you to rediscover the music you didn’t know you have. If you’ve ever been the kind of person who built a playlist out of tunes you hardly know just to see what’s worth keeping, DJ Jones just found a way to make that adventure fun.

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