Genius Mixes with 120GB Classic?

Pretty self-explanatory. Since the hardware is exactly the same (save for the hard-drive, of course) as the 160GB, will this feature come to the 120GB via a software update?

I would have thought that the Classic would be the ideal choice for the Genius Mixes feature since it is the one model with the largest capacity. The Classic is getting the back seat for sure. I am one that likes to keep all of my music with me . I do not listen to my music through iTunes on my computer only through my iPod through different avenues making the genius Mixes feature totally useless.I use iTunes only to manage my music. Apple missed it big this time around. Needless to say I am very disappointed. There will always be a market for the larger capacity iPods. I hope that Apple reconsiders and adds the feature to current 120 gig and the new 160 gig model.
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Ok, I see. Keep in mind that the Genius mixes in iTunes will not be exactly the same as the Genius mixes on your iOS devices. I don't know why this is, but I suspect it is because they are locally generated. So you simply may not get more than 4 mixes on your devices.
I think, though, the best trouble shooting step is to disable iTM on the devices, launch the Music app and let the content clear out, then re-enable the service on the devices. See if that gives you any better results.

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Hi all,
I was on my morning run and put my ipod 120gb classic on shuffle so it would shuffle through my nearly 4000 songs and then after it played 5 songs it started just flicking to the next song etc without playing it??!! Turned it off and then back on but same thing plays 5 songs normally then just flicks through the rest without playing them?!! VERY annoying! Hasn't happened before and I've had it since October. Also in the last few days it has stopped showing album art and my photos in the main menu?? Does anyone have a soloution or is this just another of what seems myriad of problems with the new classic?
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This just happened to me after having my 120GB Ipod for 2 weeks. What I did was I clicked on "Restore" when the ipod is connected. It removes all your music and restores the ipod back to factory settings. Then I loaded everything back on. It's a pain in the neck but it worked.

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I have an 8GB iPhone, and considerably more music in iTunes. For this reason, I have manual management of songs and videos enabled, but it appears that, under iTunes 9, I can't have Genius Mixes (mixes, mind you, not playlists, playlists are fine) on my iPhone. Is there something I'm missing?

there is a work around. You will have to sync your playlists rather than manage your music manually and at the same time control what tracks go on to your iphone.
I usually create a playlist in itunes called "iphone" which I use to keep track of music I want to put on my iphone. You can then select all the music in your itunes library and Control-click to bring up the contextual menu then select untick selection. Then go into the "iphone" playlist in itunes (which will have the music you want to put on your iphone, and select all the tracks there then go tick selection. So your iphone music will be ticked and all other music will be unticked. You then select "sync only ticked songs and videos" from the info page in your iphone set-up section, its right above "manually manage music". You then sync the playlists you want: the "iphone" playlist you created and whatever Genius mixes you would like. when you sync, you will have created Genius Mixes on your iphone that are limited to the songs/albums you want to have on your iphone (the ones that are ticked in your itunes library) without the fear of copying the songs that you don't want on there
Ofcourse, if you then "manage music manually" and apply, you will not erase the music from your iphone but you will lose your genius mixes for some reason. if you want to go back to syncing using playlists, then you sync to that iphone playlist again and your music will not be erased and reloaded again.
I manage music manually myself and would like to be able to do that and still retain the genius mixes. apple should sort this out! In the past, I have found it to be a good idea to occasionally sync my music using the "iphone" playlist I created and then change to manually manage music and delete the playlist from the iphone in the devices section, which deletes the playlist but keeps the music on your phone. I did this believing that the genius database information would sync properly this way, because genius database info is not linked to tracks you would manage manually and therefore would not update everytime I synced my phone. I also came across some issues with losing album artwork and ratings not updating when I only managed things manually.
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I'm running iTunes 10.7.0.21 and everything seems fine. The only strange thing is that I have two Genius mixes, each titled "Classical Mix." One of these consists of obviously classical music from my music library, but the other consists obviously of jazz. There is no Genius mix called "Jazz Mix," so it looks like the jazz mix has somehow gotten titled "Classical Mix." I also have other mixes (Alt. Singer/Songwriter Mix, Indie Rock Mix, Chamber Pop Mix, etc.), but it's really strange that a mix that consists of Billie Holliday, John Coltrane, Ella Fitzgerald, Shirley Horn, Miles Davis, etc. has a label of "Classical Mix." Meanwhile, the second "real" Classical Mix has Bach, Beethoven, Vivaldi, etc. This is really strange.
Is there any way to retitle my Genius Mixes? Is this a bug? I look at my music by genre and I clearly have 120 albums that are labeled as "Jazz," so why does iTunes insist on calling this music a "Classical Mix"?
I've tried turning off Genius and turning it back on, but that does nothing. I've figured out which "Classical Mix" is really the jazz mix, so this is really a minor annoyance, but why doesn't this work correctly?
Thanks.

The latter. I just recorded a bass track as an audio track along with tracks for guitar, banjo, harmonica, etc. (I bounce off line so playing along with the bounce is not possible.) The thing is that the other instruments I play are all acoustic, so they go on their tracks through a mic. The bass is an electric bass guitar, and while I have an amp and could mic it, it just seemed easier to put it on a track by plugging it right into the preamp, which has an "instrument" input setting as an alternative to the "microphone" input setting.
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Itunes genius mix

Hello,
i got a question concerning the itunes genius mixes. i dont have my whole library on my ipod classic, so i cant synchronize the genius mix with the ipod. my question is, if i can select different playlists, which the itunes would use to create the mixes ?
thx

Can you run Update Genius?
This looks similar to my problem (see https://discussions.apple.com/message/22875572#22875572), I also have/had TuneUp installed though I found it didn't really affect anything since iTunes also crashes with the program cleanly removed.

How do you get an Ipod Classic to make Genius mixes using the songs you want?

My Ipod Classic is now about four years old. it's the grey, 160gb model. the hard drive doesn't click, so it's in stable, working condition, as far as I can tell, but lately, I've been having a few problems with it. first and foremost, it's stubbornly refusing to make Genius Playlists for me, using the songs I want. Secondly, it's not playing some songs. now, the second issue isn't new, and I've fixed it before, but that brings me to my third issue.
when opening Klondikes (because that's the only game I play on my ipod out of the three that come with it) the other day, it gave me an error message stating "game cannot be opened because ipod is full" or something like that. I have 160 gigabytes of storage, and all I have on there is music.
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So I'll tell the Ipod to make a new Genius Mix from a selected song. in this case, I'll use Alestorm's "Keelhauled" for example. I made an edit of the song, decreasing the tempo, and drawing out the length of the song to 4:20. every single time, the ipod will use that instead of the original.
Say I use "I See Fire" by Ed Sheeran (from The Hobbit, of course). the ipod uses the Kygo Remix I have.
Say I use "One Eight Zero" by Grendel. it uses the remix.
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for "Whispers In The Dark", by Skillet, it doesn't use it, or the Instrumental version cause it can't find a match. (not a problem, just extraneous information.)
Say I use "We Can Make The World Stop" by The Glitch Mob. it uses a piano cover.
the trend I'm noticing here is that it only applies to songs with remixes. but as I have 1408 songs on my ipod, and need to be at work in an hour, I'm not going to look through everything to find every single instance of this.
the ID3 tags for these songs are correct.
Now, this is likely just a tagging issue, but the software should treat them as different songs. after all, most of them are stored in completely different blocks of memory. most of these are even different genres than the originals. and in the case of Keelhauled, because I exported the remix from Garageband, I'm listed as the Artist.
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A "classic" iPod is really a hard drive with a media player tacked on. Like any hard drive (including your computer's), it can develop data corruption. For example, maybe you mistakenly or accidentally disconnected it from the computer while it was syncing. Or you dropped it, while the iPod was trying to access its drive for song data. Or the hard drive can be getting worn out and unreliable.
The Restore will not fix the problem if the hard drive is becoming faulty. But if the data corruption was caused by something else, the Restore should fix it by erasing the hard drive to give it a "fresh start," like reformatting your computer's drive and reinstalling the OS.

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Hi, G´day!
Somebody can help me about how you can load the Genius Mix List in a 80 GB Ipod Classic?
I have totally updated my Ipod Software and the Itunes but the Genius Mix List didn´t appear on my device, can you help me if is possible to load this kind of list?
Best regards!
Pedro López

Hmmm, I bought a 60-GB Ipod Classic at first then it was stolen. The thing is my 2 year warranty didn't kick-in, nether did my car insurance which doesn't cover theft.
So I had to take the loss and come up with cash for another Ipod but this time it was the 80-GB Classic. Now this one has crashed. So I may try ZUNE this time, are you listening @ APPLE ? I've only had this new one since July 7th- 07.
So far I've shelled out roughly $930.00 for two APPLE Ipods with the 2 year warranty in approve. 18 months.
Another thing is that I didn't transfer the warranty to the new Ipod. They don't tell you themselves about the transfer but you have to take the initiative yourself. They never offered to give me the paperwork. There you have it the pitfall of not transferring your warranty. Without that warranty you are left holding the bag. So get that warranty puuuleeeezze.

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I own an ipod classic and although Genius is ON in itunes, i cannot see any genius mixes in itunes and of course not on my ipod either. I used to see it but after one upgrade of itunes it just disappeard.
I keep updating Genius but still no genius mixes. Apple people please help

Hello simoneta10,
iTunes 11 looks a little different than the previous versions of iTunes, and I'm wondering if you do not see the Genius Mixes because the Sidebar is hidden. You can follow these steps to bring back the sidebar in iTunes:
Show Sidebar - Choose View > Show Sidebar (this feature will display iTunes features on the left side of the application including Library, Store, Shared, Genius, and Playlists).
You can find the full article here:
iTunes 11: Frequently used features
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5649
Additionally, I recommend reviewing the following resource to sync the Genuis Mixes to your iPod:
iPhone and iPod: Understanding Genius Mixes
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3843
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Sheila M.

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PERFECT! That is exactly what it should be!
Look closely at the end of the sample string you posted and you will see that it has trailing empty strings at the end: '1096200000000242505,,,'
Then if you read the Javadocs for the 'split' method you will find that those will NOT be included in the resulting array:
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Is anyone experiencing random crashes with the new iPod classic 120gb units?
Every so often my unit just locks up and shows the Apple screen, only the screen is drawn in what looks like 4 colour mode, and badly drawn at that, requiring a hard reboot of the iPod to resume use (which sadly resets my smart playlists/playcounts by the looks of it).
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I clearly recall iOS7 not acting like this. So my question is: Is this a bug or a feature or am I missing something.
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First, quit all running applications and test again -
Force an app to close in iOS - Apple Support
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If the issue is still present, you may want to restore the iPhone as a new device -
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