iPod Its been a while, so lets "grade" Genius!

[Willis]

I can put my whole library on Shuffle and get more coherent playlists than Genius, so i hate it because they spent their time working on this piece of junk instead of making iTunes better and faster.

I find Shuffle just plays an album with a few other tracks throw in then may go between two albums and move to a thirds and fifth before finishing off the first ones. Meh at least Genius gives me a more random feel. For me it works.

I never realised iTunes was slow to start with

 

[yorkshire]

So so. Can't always create playlists from some of my songs.

 

[CPD_1]

It doesn't have a problem with the Beatles anymore which is the biggest improvement I've seen.

Also, you can turn it off under the store menu.

 

[Clincher]

It's okay... sometimes it will give decent results and other times ridiculous results.

 

[mkrishnan]

I'm generally pretty happy with it (use it predominantly on my iPhone). The only problem is that, sometimes, songs get oversampled into the playlists... I have a couple of songs that are just constantly getting picked for every playlist. Sometimes it's even to the point where that song will not only show up, say, as playlist item #2, but will keep showing up there even when I keep refreshing the playlist repeatedly. The only solution really is to uncheck them and stop them from syncing onto the iPhone.... I would like to see a thumbs up/down interface like Pandora that could suppress songs from being selected without having to keep them off the device altogether.

 

[bohbot16]

I'm generally pretty happy with it (use it predominantly on my iPhone). The only problem is that, sometimes, songs get oversampled into the playlists... I have a couple of songs that are just constantly getting picked for every playlist. Sometimes it's even to the point where that song will not only show up, say, as playlist item #2, but will keep showing up there even when I keep refreshing the playlist repeatedly. The only solution really is to uncheck them and stop them from syncing onto the iPhone.... I would like to see a thumbs up/down interface like Pandora that could suppress songs from being selected without having to keep them off the device altogether.

Have you tried rating your songs? I was under the impression that this helped Genius pick songs.

 

[mkrishnan]

Have you tried rating your songs? I was under the impression that this helped Genius pick songs.

Can anyone confirm that? The problem is, right now, none of my some 6000+ songs are rated. I guess I could certainly block rate them all and give everything except this handful of songs I don't want in lists a 4-5 star rating and then give the block songs a 1-star rating....