Sunday 8 June 2014

Mending iTunes "Genius" function

I quite like iTunes but I get my music either from CDs or Amazon downloads. Both of these sources seem to cause trouble with the iTunes "Genius" system.

There isn't much you can do if your song isn't well known so iTunes can't find out what songs go with it (I believe it uses playlists including songs to aid recommendation) but sometimes it just won't work with many fairly well known songs.

A form of fix for this seems to be to delete the Genius file in iTunes (not as scary as you might think).

Exit iTunes then find  iTunes Library Genius.itdb (probably under your profile).

Restart iTunes and it will re-download the Genius info.

Hope it helps someone.