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downingp

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With the new iTunes 8 and Genius I am running into some problems with the "Genius" creating a playlist on a certain albums. I can't imagine them being too rare or obscure. For an example I have the new Metallica CD. The Genius is not able to create a playlist based on any of the songs.
I did the recommended update for the genius. Is there another fix for this?

thanks.
 
Same here

I'm having exactly the same problem with all my songs on iTunes. I have yet to find one song that will create a Genius Playlist - not even ones I've downloaded from iTunes. I've updated Genius a few times as recommended but still no luck. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
:confused:
 
Same, a lot of songs are working. But I have a really large collection of Hardstyle and Hardcore, which sadly iTunes doesn't have in their collection. This style of music is rather popular in the Netherlands, and I can't see why Apple isn't getting this music on the store.
I'm downloading everything without paying now, because I simple don't want the hassle of going to the store, buying it, going home, rip it to digital etc.

Back to topic, bottom line is I can't Genius my Hardcore, and that just sucks:mad:!
 
I'd say just over 1/3 of my library isn't on itunes so I get that message quite a lot.
 
The new Metallica album is definitely in the iTunes store. I would think it would be able to create a playlist.
 
Almost all of my 50GB of songs are bought from iTunes. I can barely get any of them to work on Genius though. Just bought the new Joshua Radin album, wanted to make a Genius playlist of one of the songs, and I get the unavailable dialog. Update. Same thing.

Hopefully it gets better. I'm not a Top 40 kind of guy.
 
soLoredd said:
Almost all of my 50GB of songs are bought from iTunes. I can barely get any of them to work on Genius though. Just bought the new Joshua Radin album, wanted to make a Genius playlist of one of the songs, and I get the unavailable dialog. Update. Same thing.

Hopefully it gets better. I'm not a Top 40 kind of guy.
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It also does not work with any Classical music. Since that is what 98% of my library is, I'm out of luck. Thankfully it works with Jazz.......
 
i got this problem to,

orangetrumpeter said:
It also does not work with any Classical music. Since that is what 98% of my library is, I'm out of luck. Thankfully it works with Jazz.......
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thread jack, what are some good classical artists.
not singing so much in them though.
i have the normal, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Verdi, and some others.
 
I have a lot of multilingual stuff collected from pan Eurasia and sadly..... Genius becomes foolish in that regard!
 
Its better knowing I'm not on my own on this one. Worryingly though, a lot of the songs I have tried to use Genius on aren't particularly obscure but yet Genius still comes up as song unavailable. I'm really disappointed with this because Genius seemed like a great idea.
 
Apple hasnt collected enough data from people who downloaded the new metallica CD.

I am having the same problem, but once Apple gets enough information, youll see Genius playlists.
 
orangetrumpeter said:
It also does not work with any Classical music. Since that is what 98% of my library is, I'm out of luck. Thankfully it works with Jazz.......
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I'm in the same position; classical music appears to be alien to this piece of software. Nor does it work with all jazz. Having clicked on some lounge/French cafe style music (Cafe Orchestra, Yann Tiersen, Cafe de Paris), Genius offered me..... Carla Bruni (perhaps more apt than I first thought). I disconnected the thing on the spot.

benlangdon said:
i got this problem to,


thread jack, what are some good classical artists.
not singing so much in them though.
i have the normal, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Verdi, and some others.
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Again, that's me, to a certain extent.

Apple Ink said:
I have a lot of multilingual stuff collected from pan Eurasia and sadly..... Genius becomes foolish in that regard!
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As have I. It seems if you are not a 'top 40' kind of person, Genius does not know how to cope; anything unusual, or non-mainstream (a world where everything from the Beatles to classical is not mainstream!) does not exist in this universe.
Cheers
 
Genius

Just go into iTunes library and hold Ctrl and press A, then right click on mouse and check selection!
Worked for me!
 
I think it might be because the album was just released, my itunes wont create a genius playlist for any of the songs on the new underoath cd, and that cd isnt even two weeks old, that could be why?
 
yeah i've had the same problem. and to think when i first heard the word "genius", i thought it's a program that actually analyze each song technically and create a playlist through that... but instead, it's just a playlist created for us by apple...
 
midnightmoon said:
Just go into iTunes library and hold Ctrl and press A, then right click on mouse and check selection!
Worked for me!
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Yup, that's it. I just realized that. Once all my songs were checked, it was able to create playlists for anything. Works well so far.

T.
 
I was having the same problem as everyone is describing. I went in highlighted and checked all songs went to store and checked update genius and presto...genius now works for all songs (even songs that wouldn't work just prior to doing this(
 
orangetrumpeter said:
It also does not work with any Classical music. Since that is what 98% of my library is, I'm out of luck. Thankfully it works with Jazz.......
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I dont get this genius.
I bought "Back from the Void Border" by Whitechapelonian from iTunes and can't get any of the tracks to work on Genius ...
 
this was killing me with Death Magnetic that i got from a friend.

what i did was to select all the songs, convert ID3 tag to v2.4, update Genius and then it worked
 
I don't think any of the music I've bought from iTunes has worked with genius. They are mostly lesser known metal bands though. Also, they should get rid of the "Create ringtone" option if it doesn't work with any songs.
 
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