Genius results gone bad since iTunes 9

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hyperskyhypersky
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
My Genius results used to be great with iTunes 8, with Genius Playlists set to 50 songs it used to have a variety of artists and the songs would fit pretty well with the seed song.



I used to be in love with this feature, and all my friends would love the mixes I would play at parties using this feature.



But since I update my Genius after upgrading to iTunes 9 (to get the Genius Mixes), when selecting a seed song for a Genius Playlist, the 50-song Genius Playlist created seems to concentrate on 5 or 6 artists and repeat songs from those same 5 or 6 artists to fill the playlist with. And the 5 or 6 artists it selects are definitely not as good a match to the seed song as they used to be... I have over 27k songs with over 6200 artists, it's not like Genius doesn't have enough to chose from.



what happened?

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  • Reply 1 of 2
    rokcet scientistrokcet scientist Posts: 962member
    Maybe the Genius algorythm can handle no more than, say, 10K songs? And starts acting funny if presented with more than that? 10K songs is waaay more than the average Joe Blow or Jane Doe would have in their iTunes libraries. And isn't Genius targeted at Joe Blow and Jane Doe?



    Similar thing happened to me a few years ago, with the second or third generation iPhoto: it crashed – and trashed my entire photo library of over 10K photos into oblivion! Poof! Gone! Apparently it couldn't handle more than a couple thousand photos at that stage of its evolution @#$%!

    (Thank God I had good backups, BTW!).
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    hyperskyhypersky Posts: 2member
    hmmm, maybe, but it used to work great with iTunes 8... and I had as many songs.
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