Genius unavailable for this song
I have clicked on several songs in my music library, but every time I click on Genius, it says Genius is not available for this song. I have updated Genius and iTunes, but I still get this message every time.
Any help is appreciated, thank you.
When you highlight all the songs all the boxes will be checked. After you do the UNCHECK the boxes will be empty. Be sure to wait until this happens. Then do the CHECK and all the boxes will be checked. Wait until this happens. Then try genius. If it doesn't work then close itunes - open itunes and repeat. Close itunes then open it and it should work.
Good luck. Depending on the number of songs you have it can take up to 10 sec to change.
If that doesn't work then I suppose you have a different problem than I did.
Arthur
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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 / RussOops, 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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Why are there duplicates of songs in my library w/ the title 'Track 1, 2, 3 etc.' ?
hatesbadprogramming wrote:
Why are there duplicates of songs in my library w/ the title 'Track 1, 2, 3 etc.' ?
Bad ID3 tagging "lost" the track names on import? -
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 ...
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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