No Genius Mixes with Manual Management?

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.
I hope that hasn't been too confusing for you. If you play around with it, you should get the hang of it

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a very good explanation given by the great wjosten
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http://www.wideanglesoftware.com/touchcopy/index.php
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8. Right click again & select restore from backup, select the backup you just made. When prompted to create another backup, decline.
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I don't do automatic syncing or music libraries, I run a recording studio and at the end of the day, I like to chuck a mix onto my phone and listen to it on the way home. Then when I get home, I might want to add some other stuff and compare it to the mix I added earlier.
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Hi, Michael, and thanks for your help.
I realize I can change the options to "automatically update..."
But the whole point of my inquiry was to find out whether there's a way to NOT have that preference set, as I
(a) don't want the iPod updating every time I plug it in; and
(b) want to be able to see its songs on other computers when I'm not seeking to update it.
What I want is a command that I can initiate that will say "act as though the automatically-update preferences were on and do a full update just this once".
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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?
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I have searched for solutions to the error 13019, but everyone with the problem doe'st manually manage their music like I do. I really don't want to have to sync and gothrough that mess. Help? solution for manually managing videos and music!!

I have searched for solutions to the error 13019, but everyone with the problem doesn't manually manage their music like I do. I really don't want to have to sync and go through that mess. Please Help! solution for manually managing videos and music!!

- Make an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store and hear what they hae to say. It is free.
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