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Genius Mixes not showing up in iTunes under Genius

Posted on 10/16/09.

I recently upgraded to iTunes 9 and noticed that Genius Mixes was not listed under the Genius pull down. Thinking that perhaps this was an issue with the installation I deleted and re-installed iTunes.
However, this didn’t correct the problem. Is there a setting that I am not aware of that needs to be activated. This issue also stumped the folks at the Genius Bar in my local Apple Store. Thanks in advance for any assistance.

– K Eric


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11 Responses to “Genius Mixes not showing up in iTunes under Genius”

  1. Gary Rosenzweig says:
    Oct 16 at 6:55 pm

    Is Genius On? Under the “Store” menu, select “Turn on Genius.” Otherwise, the mixes never get made.

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    • K Eric says:
      Oct 19 at 8:50 am

      Hi Gary,

      Genius is on under the store menu. It does appear in iTunes as a pull down along the left
      side navigation. However, “Genius Mixes” is missing from under it.

      Is there a music library threshold (number of songs) that must be reached before the mixes are listed?

      Thanks,

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      • Gary Rosenzweig says:
        Oct 19 at 9:08 am

        Try turning Genius off and then back on again. But if you do have too few songs, then not only will Genius mixes not be able to work, but they wouldn’t be of any use. There is no set number, because it needs to match songs of similar styles and genres. But you probably should have at least several hundred songs to see useful results, I imagine.

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  2. K Eric says:
    Oct 19 at 10:42 am

    Thanks,

    I’ll give the on/off switch of genius another go later this evening.

    There are 117 songs, most purchased from iTunes in my macbook iTunes library. I would think this would be enough songs to have a mix.

    Looking forward to getting your book on Tuesday. Amazon says it’s a day away.

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  3. K Eric says:
    Oct 19 at 7:09 pm

    No success!

    Genius mixes are a no show. This is so strange.

    Thanks for the tip!

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  4. Gary Rosenzweig says:
    Oct 19 at 7:45 pm

    I’m thinking that 117 songs is too few — especially if they are different genres.

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  5. Nancy says:
    Nov 29 at 10:50 pm

    I am having the same problem. They did show at one time and I was enjoying them. Then the screen was blank one day. When I turned them off and on to fix the blank screen, they disappeared comletely. I have tried everything to get them back with no luck. I have over 4000 songs so that isn’t my issue as well as the fact they were working at one time.

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    • Brent says:
      Dec 31 at 12:23 am

      I’ve had exactly the same situation – available -> blank screen -> no Genius Mixes. Very sad as I really enjoyed Genius Mixes.

      Anyone found a solution?

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  6. Nikolas says:
    Dec 18 at 1:25 pm

    Same problem, tried all of the suggestion I could find. Still not working!

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  7. Laurent says:
    Jan 4 at 5:07 am

    Same problem here !!! Blank screen, then item totally disappeared after turning off and back on “Genius”. :-(

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