Genius Only Works with "Purchased" Songs?

When i tried to make a genius playlist for one of my imported CD's i noticed that the genius feature would not work. It seems to be like this for all of my music that didn't come from itunes. I got a message telling me to update my genius, i did so and it still didn't work. I tried some the the songs i got from itunes and it worked fine.... What's happening?
-Jesse-

Hi, if Apple told us how Genius worked, they'd have to kill us. I guess. Yeah, that was a lame joke.
Anyway - I can get it to make Genius playlist for stuff that is NOT in the iTS.
And sometimes even the free download of the week from iTS will NOT make a Genius playlist, but a few weeks later, it will.
Go figure.
We are not supposed to speculate on the discussion boards, so I have no further info on this. My intuition tells me it has something to do with ratings...and if they're smart, it also has something to do with beats per minute and genre.

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