iPod Genius Doesnt work

Take the artist name out of your track titles and see how well Genius fares then. It looks distinctly like your tags are stopping Genius working as it relies on correct metadata.

cgrier said:

Does genius only work for music that you have bought from itunes?

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Shaduu said:

Take the artist name out of your track titles and see how well Genius fares then. It looks distinctly like your tags are stopping Genius working as it relies on correct metadata.

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The song does not have to be purchased from iTunes. It also does not have to be a perfect match to the iTunes or Gracenote metadata. I think the issue is more that iTunes has to be able to make a high-likelihood match between your song and a specific song in their Genius database. In my experience, adding things like additional artists in parentheses in the song title doesn't hurt it. But in your example... do you leave the album field blank on all your songs? That's probably not going to work....

OTOH, I don't know if having it at the end instead of the beginning makes a difference (i.e. I don't know if "Remedy (The Game)" would get matched, although I tend to think it would, based on my own songs, if the other data like the album name were there....