Genius is unavailable for the song ...

SInce late in 2010 my iTunes does not seem to be able to use any new music that I have imported to create a Genius. Older, previously imported, songs work fine (if they are recognized by the store, etc) but the new ones do not. Have have tried: reset Genius several times, deleted the XML files, deleted cookies from Safari (I did not move the entire folder out however) and still I get the following message:
"Geniue is unavailable for the song "Song Name Here".
Choosing Update Genius from the store menu will update your Genius results. If, after updating, iTunes is still unable to create a Genius playlist from this song or artist, please choose another one. "
Anyone have any ideas?

There are a couple of other threads by people who seem to be having the same problem:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3000658
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2744045
Genius is not making playlists out of songs released after April 2010. Maybe try calling Apple Support? I haven't had any luck so far but maybe if enough people call they will understand it's such a big problem.

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In genius, it says: Genius is unavailable for the song... No matter what song it is, it keeps on saying that

In genius, it says: Genius is unavailable for the song...
Then, underneath, it says "Choosing Update Genius from the Store menu will update your genius results. If after updating, iTunes is still unable to create a genius playlist from this song or artist, please choose another one.
The point is, that no matter what song or what artist I choose, even after updating, this message still pops up!

Thanks to the tip from squane about repopulating the library, GENIUS IS WORKING AGAIN!
It does seem to be related to having started iTunes Match. My guess would be the songs that did not make it to the cloud may be the culprit, but I'm not sure.
The steps are a little involved, but here's what I did:
1) Go through the iTunes Match process
2) Click the cloud icon in the sort bar at the top of itunes
3) Select all the songs that were matched (if you're like me, you'll have about 50 songs/booklets that did not make it to the cloud for various reason -- so it's important not to select these at this point).
4) Delete, and, of course, do not select "also delete this song from the cloud" (I'm doing this because I have a MacBook Air with an SSD drive, so I can't afford the space to have my 94 GB of songs on my drive).
If you haven't tried this before (only keeping the cloud version), you might try it with one song just to test. After the local version is gone, you still see the song but you need to be connected to the net to listen to it.
Now, all your songs, except the ones that did not make it to the cloud, are off your local drive.
5) For all the things you want to keep, but did not make it to the cloud, I right clicked on each item, selected "Show in Finder", and dragged it to a folder on my desktop so that I'm sure not to lose it in subsequent steps.
6) Quit itunes
7) Go to your Music/iTunes folder
8) Delete all files that begin with iTunes (so iTunes Library.itl, iTunes Music Library.xml, * Extras.itdb, * Genius.itdb)
I'd recommend backing up these files somewhere before deletion just in case...
9) Restart iTunes
10) Turn on Match
11) Turn on/update Genius
At least for me, this process fixed Genius being unavailable for any song I tried, even those songs that were the basis of previous Genius song lists that I have saved. It still shows as unavailable for certain songs like before, but all the songs it previously worked for work again.

Genius is unavailable for the song - Current Music

Somewhere over the last few months the Genius feature has stopped working for me. This is for current music (Adele, Foo Fighters) as well as older music. It is VERY hit and miss, sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. I have looked throuhg the net for ANY answers and have not found any solutions. I have rebuilt my db, updated my genius, etc to now avail. My system and iTunes are up to date. Does anyone have ideas? Could it be something with the ID Tags?

Have a look at these threads:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3000658
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2744045
Genius just doesn't work with songs released after April 2010. I made a playlist of purchased music, arranged it by release date, and checked this. Try this to see yourself. The only exception was a John Lennon song I bought that was released on a compilation in October 2010, but was of course a re-release. Many other people (I'd say all other people based on the unscientific survey of Apple Support threads!) are having the same problem. I'm trying to work it out through calls to Apple Support. There's someone very helpful there trying to help me out, but it doesn't seem to be getting through to the engineers. Maybe if enough of us call they'll do something.

I'm getting a "genius is unavailable for this song" message on recent albums, after genius is updated, feels wrong!?

When I try to create a genius playlist from some of my most recently bought music I get the message "Genius is not available for this song" (righ click > Start Genius to cerate the playlist).
I'm guessing that for music that has only just been released or is obscure genius might not be able to start a playlist, but I'm still getting this message on some popular albums that have been out for some months now.
These are the albums I've bought over the last six months that I can't make Genius playlists from. I don't really follow the charts but I'm pretty sure the Adele, Cut Copy and Mark Ronson albums have sold enough copies by now that I'd expect them to show up in Genius results.
Miami Horror - Illumination
Daft Punk - Tron: Legacy Soundtrack
Cut Copy - Zonoscope
Ou Est Le Swimming Pool - The Golden Year
Adele - 21
Adele - Rolling in The Deep (EP)
The Black Keys - Brothers
Röyksopp - Senior
Mark Ronson & The Business Intl. - Record Collection
John Lennon - Power to the Peope - The Hits
Underworld - Barking
I've tried updating genius, disabling genius and the reenabling it. Disabling genius, deleting the file "iTunes Libary Genius.itdb" then reenabling it. All my other results come back but these albums still don't have Genius working.
All but one album were bought from the iTunes store, most in the New Zealand store, some from the UK store (I recently moved), the other album was bought from another MP3 store but is available on iTunes.
My music libary in iTunes is currently 108GB / 10,300 tracks, a mixture of songs bought from iTunes and MP3s ripped from my CD collection. I'm using the latest version of iTunes (10.2.1) on the latest verison of Snow Leopard on a 2010 iMac. I sync the Mac with my iPhone, iPad and Apple TV (old generation).
If anybody can help explain why these songs don't allow me to create a genius playlist from them I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks / Russ

Oops, so you did. I must have been on auto-pilot
I don't have any of those tracks in my library so I can't tell you that any of them work for me. If Genius works overall then it's probably a matter of sampling a critical mass of playlists that already contain those songs, for it then to be able to suggest suitable "mixes". I've not tried to get to grips with the mechanism behind Genius but I'd guess it works something along these lines. Your library gets inspected and some kind of summary gets uploaded to a server which integrates data from lots of users, and then gives you some back. Perhaps the process just does take time.
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How can I download a previously downloaded purchase to my iTunes library on my laptop when the listing for the song in my library won't play because it says it cannot locate the file. Yes I have searched my iTunes folders and also done a full windows search. The track plays on my iPad and my iPhones but will not play on my laptop!?
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Purchasing a new song or album will not affect any other song or album in your library.
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werm21 wrote:
It's for my grandfathers funeral video tomarro and i can't get the songs i just purchased on itunes to work. They play but wont work when i drag them to the movie maker program. it says that the codec for the song isn't installed. codec?
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falkner09 wrote:
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