How to control Genius Mixes???

Genius Mix created 6 different Christmas playlists for me. Um.. NOT what I would listen to on a daily basis.
Does anyone know how to specify the genre of the Genius Mixes generated by iTunes? Even based on a song or artist? Great idea, but it's not so intuitive (yet?)...

I was getting some weird behavior too. So, I went into each of my genres and added that genre to the grouping. Now, I don't know what the grouping is used for but when I turned off my genius and turned it back on, it seem to group most things better. The only problem I have is that when it compiled a Christmas mix it added some of Madonna to it, and a Soundtrack mix that has Christmas albums. So, I am still confused on how to better control the outcome.

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  • How to work Genius Mixes?

    Dear Apple Support People,
         How do I work the Genius MIxes thing on iTunes? Help! Please help as soon as possible. I need the music to keep me up on my trian rides so I don't miss my stop. If you could back to me as soon as possible that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
                                            ~C00ki3M0nst3rz

    When you sync genius playlists, you access them from the genius symbol which appears to the left of the playlists symbol in the iPod App's "dock".
    From http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2978: "Genius mixes cannot be synced to your device manually. To sync Genius Mixes to your device, select the device in iTunes, click the Music tab, and select the Genius Mixes you wish to sync in the Playlists section."

  • How to sync Genius mixes?

    I upgraded to the newest firmware and i'm loving the new way to sort applications. but can't figure out how to sync the genius mixes created in my library. basically i'm looking for a different way to fill my tiny 8GB (really 7GB) ipod touch rather than make playlists.

    see http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10166577#10166577
    -fred

  • How to configure Genius Mixes?

    Plain and simple I was wondering if there was any way to tweak my Genius Mixes. I have a huge variety of music but it only seems to make a few (very strange) mixes that only cover very specific music. Ska music with Hardcore Punk? What? An "Old School Rap" mix with albums from 2012? What? Any help would be appreciated.

    B-rock, the article you provided a link to had the following sentence:
    Genius Mixes can only be synced automatically, so you won't be able to add Genius Mixes to your device if "Sync only checked songs and videos" is checked in the iTunes Summary pane. (emphasis added my me)
    I have around 7-8 thousand songs in iTunes, and a 6th gen nano that will hold around half of that, so I sync only checked songs. That said, I have 11 Genius Mixes. Is that an error in the article?

  • How to play genius mix through roku 2?

    I have an ipod touch and a Roku 2xs that I have connected to a stereo. The Roku shows playlists I have made but does not show the genius playlists. How can I have the Roku recognize the genius playlists?

    You could do this in more than one way. If you have a split keyboard, then both parts of the keyboard could be set to a different MIDI number. This makes it easy to assign one part to the organ & the other to the strings.
    If you work without a split keyboard, you could set up some transformers to filter the incoming note pitches. e.g. transformer A would select notes below a given pitch and remove all other pitches. Transformer B would select notes above a given pitch & also remove all other pitches.
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  • How to make genius mix an actual playlist ...

    ...that I can put onto my Nano?

    Depending on your issue, making an appoint will be offered as an option by choosing "Take in for Service" (see http://www.macrumors.com/2014/11/07/apple-genius-bar-online/).  Of course, you could also just try calling your local Apple store.

  • No genius mixes in iTunes Match

    Hi,
    I upgraded my ATV2 with the latest 5.1 version. Now, when I select Music->Genius Mixes it says that there a no genius mixes in my iTunes library. However, in iTunes they show up fine.
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    Thanks!

    This is what I did and it fixed my three that didn't have working iMatch Genius:
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    I turned it back on.
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    Waited
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    I opened up iTunes and then Clicked on Genious just to open without clicking on any mix.
    I left the phone on, (practised the piano) and came back to it 30 mins later.
    I then had iMatch's Genious working.
    I did the same, basically to the 4s and the iPad:
    opened up iTunes and then Genious, with clicking on any mix and waited (more piano practice)
    Now I have iMatch's Genious Mix working on all of the devices that didn't work before.
    Did anything I did have anything to do with solving the issue? I have no idea.
    But my iTunes on my 15" Macbook, my new one, locks up right away but no locking up on anything else except my ofther Macbook Pro, the 17"er.
    -- Thats another string

  • Genius Mixes doesn't appear at the Sidebar

    I don't know how to activate Genius Mixes. I've tried some tutorials like updating genius, restarting genius etc.
    But there is no Genius Mixes Window.
    Please help me!

    Can someone help me please?

  • How Can I Control (or Understand) Genius Mix Lists?

    I am running iTunes 11. I decided to turn on Genius Mix (Menu--> Store--> Turn On Genius). This was fine. There was some information exchanged, some calculations done, etc. and an hour or so later I had a category under "Genius" of "Genius Mixes". There were twelves such mixes: Folk Rock Mix, Vocal Mix, Jaxx Mix, Classical Mix, Contemporary Folk Mix, Clssic Rock Mix, Electric Blues Mix, East Coast Rap Mix, Classic R&B Mix, Country Mix, Sountracks Mix and another Classic Rock Mix.
    I did absolutely nothing to specify these categories and I have no idea how many songs are in each mix.I don't know if these are "canned" categories or if they are generated based on my content. I assume there are categories others have that i don't have.
    Only by attempting to add one or more of these Genius Mixes to my iPhone have I been able to learn how big they are: Most are Gigabytes in size. Perhaps my entire music library has been tranched into these categories. I don't know. I have been unable to find any tools to show me a listing of the songs in the Genius Mixes other than using the "Next Up" drop down menu that is shown when I am playing a song from one of the mixes. Trying to employ that tool to learn anything about the lists would be just short of stupid.
    I can make my own Genius lists by selecting a song and then limiting the size to 25, 50...etc. songs. I like these. But these huge "Genius Mixes" just seem silly. If anyone knows how to get them to display as lists so that we can see what's in them rather than "album cover quilts" that show four clustered album covers I would be most grateful (and embarrassed, as this would seem to be an obvious viewing option for me to maybe have overlooked). Either way, any bits o' wisdom or information most welcome.

    umitcelik1984 wrote:
    Hi,
    Thank you very much for your help.
    I tried the example and I wrote such a dll but when I try to use the same dll in a VS C++ project and a labview project, te dll uses different memory location. When I sent a value to dll and when I try to see it in my vs C++ application, I could not see the values. How can I communicate with my VS C++ and labview project. The dll must use the same memory location for my aim.
    Best ragards,
    Umit
    As you have already seen, LabVIEW and VC++ running in their own process.   The memory space is not shared between process.
    What you need is Inter-Process Communication.  Call Dll.vi alone is not going to slove your problem.
    If you are a good C/C++ programmer, search MSDN site for Inter-Process Communication.  There are a few choices.
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    George Zou
    http://gtoolbox.yeah.net
    George Zou
    http://webspace.webring.com/people/og/gtoolbox

  • How do I set up genius mixes on my iPhone with iTunes match

    I have used genius mixes on my phone, but now that I have iTunes match I no longer see the controls for turning on the genius mixes for my phone.  How do I do that?

    Apparently this currently is not possible. Although the release notes of iOS 5.1 state that Genius Mixes should be available on iPhone and iPad, they simply don't show up. Here another thread concerning this problem: iOS 5.1 - Still No Genius Mixes

  • How can I make a new genius mix? Apple has made two automatically, but I would like one based on other genres within my iTunes library. I have tried updating my genius mixes to no avail.

    How can I make a new genius mix? I do not want to make a genius playlist. Genius has already created two mixes but I would like another based on other genres within my extensive music library. I have tried updating Genius from Store>Update Genius but to no avail. Thank you!

    Hi. The two user tips both describe a sequence of steps that should get your library from the point where it threatens to wipe data from your device to where it is syncing normally, while recovering as much information as possible. It may still be necessary to wipe and reload the device but this should only take place once all the data that can be recovered has been recovered.
    Doing step 1 of 8 and then complaining things aren't the way you want them to be yet strikes me as premature...
    Since you appear to have all your media content, and we are discussing an iPod classic, not an iOS device, the main worries are already taken care of. What's left is ratings, playcounts, playlist membership and checked status. Since your device holds only part of your library at best you could only recover the missing data for the content that is on the device using third party tools.
    Recreating the previous checked/unchecked status of every track in your library from where you are now may not be that easy. Syncing with selected playlists has many advantages, one of which would have been that you would have a named playlist that could have been retrieved by 3rd party software if you had used this method.
    You haven't explained what caused your problem in the first place, but if you have a Previous iTunes Libraries folder holding old copies of your iTunes database (generated with each iTunes update) then it would be possible to restore the most recent of these and then update the library with any changes in your media folder.
    BTW Apple doesn't offer free support for this kind of issue with iTunes.
    tt2

  • How to get more than 2 squares in Genius Mixes?

    I have iTunes 9 and when I do Genius Mixes I get only 2 boxes when it says you get 12. How can I do this? Do I need to get more music?

    Hi shraddha,
    The Jet OLE DB provider reads a registry key to determine how many rows are to be read to guess the type of the source column. The registry setting is:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Jet\4.0\Engines\Excel\TypeGuessRows
    Or
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\wow6432node\microsoft\jet\4.0\engines\Excel\TypeGuessRows
    By default, the value for this key is 8. Hence, the provider scans the first 8 rows of the source data to determine the data types for the columns. If any field looks like text and the length of data is more than 255 characters, the column is typed as a
    memo field. So, if there is no data with a length greater than 255 characters in the first 8 rows of the source, Jet cannot accurately determine the nature of the data type. Therefore, values longer than 255 characters may be truncated or ignored.
    To import data from a memo column, we must make sure that the memo column in at least one of the sampled rows contains a value longer than 255 characters. Or we can increase the number of rows sampled by the driver to include such a row by increasing the
    value of TypeGuessRows. For more details, please refer to the following kb:
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/281517/en-us
    Thanks,
    Katherine Xiong
    Katherine Xiong
    TechNet Community Support

  • I used to have eight genius mixes and now I have four...I changed the genres around and nothing happened...I've added many more songs since it changed from 8 to 4 mixes...how can I get more again and why did it go from 8 to 4?

    I used to have eight genius mixes and now I have four...I changed the genres around and nothing happened...I've added many more songs since it changed from 8 to 4 mixes...how can I get more again and why did it go from 8 to 4? I had the Hardcore mix and a rap mix and classic rock and grunge mixes...now I don't...I kinda want those back...the mixes I have now make no sense as most the songs on each do not correlate AT ALL to the genre mix they have been placed in. If someone could give me an answer that'd be great.

    1. Don't confuse "Apple ID" with iTunes Account ID.  You can have many Apple IDs but only one iTunes account active at a time.
    2. If you "changed" your iTunes account ID, you actually have 2 accounts - one under the old name plus the new name.
    3. You can't merge the accounts - they remain separate.  Apps purcahsed under the old account name will update ONLY WHEN THE PHONE IS SIGNED IN TO THE OLD ACCOUNT NAME  and visa versa.
    4. Likewise, you can sync only the apps, music, media purchased under the account the phone AND iTunes are signed in to.

  • I want to fix a Genius Mix as a playlist...How do I see track names in a Genius Mix?

    I want to fix a Genius Mix as a Playlist. How do I see track names behind a Genius Mix icon?

    I don't think you can. I was going to suggest that since you can sync a Genius Mix to a device you might read off the tracks from that, but it turns out the details are hidden there too.
    As I understand it once a Genius Mix has been created it won't be altered, unless you delete a "mix" you don't care for in which case a replacement will be generated.
    To capture the list in iTunes I guess you would have to leave the mix to play all the way through until it loops back on itself, then sort your Music in Last Played order and capture the results to a regular playlist.
    tt2

  • How do I get new Genius Mixes?

    I click Genius Mixes and it's always the same old mixes. How do I create/get new Genius Mixes?

    You need to update your genius and you'll get the mix with your new genius results. If it isn't updating there may be an issue with your library that's stopping the error - either 4002 or 4010 errors. I would turn genius on an off in the "Store" menu then update genius. If that doesn't work (it didn't for me) here's what I did to get it working:
    Turns out there was an overriding issue with dead tracks for me.
    - Turn Genius off - this will delete the genius results.
    - Download the iTunes script Super Remove Dead Tracks http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=removedeadsuper
    - Install and run according to directions
    - Turn genius on
    Hopefully this fixes the issues and you'll get genius mixes when it stops updating.

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