Problems with genius sidebar

Hello everyone. I'm using Itunes 10.7 (21) for a 64 bits, 13", early 2011 macbookpro. My operating system is Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8.2 (12C60))
I have this issue. The genius sidebar option on my itunes menu appears grayed out. I have genius activated and I can create playlists without any problem. I just would like the use the recommendations feature.
I've been reading many posts regarding this same issue and I've realized that most of them are quite old (2010 and earlier). It seems like nobody is having this problem in 2012!
If anybody has any ideas on why is this happening, I'd really appreciate the help. It's kind of frustrating.
Best regards
Troubled user

hi,
I understand your frustration, but you need to know how Genius actually works. It compute playlists and references of all users to build suggestion for you. If the album you are refering is brand new, you will need to wait a little bit in order to allow the Genius database to have suggestions for you.
As for variaty on genius suggestion, I personnally could not complaint when I use it on popular artist. As for more specific ones, the suggestion are effectively narrower. As advertised, Genius database is however improving as more and more people is using it.

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