Help with Genius Recommendations???

Hi,
Am I doing something wrong or is it just not possible to edit the Genius recommendations of an iTunes account?
There are a few artists and songs bought by others on my account and I'd rather not be recommended those. It would be good to ask that a certain artist not be recommended again. And in movies too.
Regards.

Sorry, but there's no way to tailor or edit Genius recommendations.
Regards.

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Message Edited by CroftBond on 02-18-2010 01:09 PM

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Eric,
I would hardly call the Quadro card an upgrade to a GTX 680!
Regarding getting more speed from a faster MB / CPU, since you already have a 6-core rig with 24GB of RAM I would think that any gains you would get would not be that dramatic.
Check out your cpu usage (Task manager) and see how busy your cores are during a test render. I am guessing that the Boris and / or Red Giant effects could be jumping your projects from gaining the full multi-core capabilities of the Adobe software.
Regards,
Jim

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