Comments on: How To: Create a Genius Playlist on the iPhone or iPod Touch

By: Gizem Kayahan

Gizem Kayahan — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:07:34 +0000

Thanks!! Worked!

By: Liz

Liz — Wed, 25 May 2011 17:33:46 +0000

I used genius on my computer to create automatic genius mixes, and for a while it worked fine on my iPod touch. But now, possibly since the last software update, there is no longer a genius menu containing these mixes, though the genius function to create a new playlist based on a particular song does work on the iPod. Any suggestions for where the genius mixes went? I can’t seem to drag them onto the iPod on the computer (they’re still present on the computer).

By: Christy

Christy — Fri, 20 May 2011 23:00:59 +0000

It pretty much rejected EVERY single song on my iPod, saying it did not have enough related songs D:<

By: Lori

Lori — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:48:05 +0000

I can’t even figure out were to turn on the genius function. All it’s saids is go to iTunes to turn it on. But were in iTunes? I feel so lost!!

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 17 May 2010 19:46:22 +0000

How do u get to see that cool interface look on there

By: miki song

miki song — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:02:07 +0000

gr8 tip guys tnx

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:38:35 +0000

Your instructions stink

By: LK

LK — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:01:31 +0000

ARGH!!!! all my songs don’t work for the genius playlist, saying that there isn’t enough, where each song i have has a lot of songs in it’s album, and a lot of different albums with same artists. It’s really annoying and also, I tried updating it a bunch of times, and it never works. Any tips? or is it b/c the songs i download aren’t from itunes? ..that’s stupid

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:38:23 +0000

I have the same problem as some others. Genius works on my itunes, but says i don’t have enough common music on my ipod when i try to make a Genius playlist from the same songs. What gives?

By: Stephany

Stephany — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:03:25 +0000

Everytime I press a song to put on genius it says try again and I’m tired of doin tha

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:33:56 +0000

If you’re looking for a way to easily create playlists on the iPhone/iPod Touch with a more intuitive interface than Genius, definitely check out “Forgotten Favorites.” It just got accepted to the App Store and we couldn’t be happier with the response we’re getting (Disclosure: I’m on the development team).

Might be what you’re looking for… there’s also a YouTube video if you’re curious.

By: Dan-ø

Dan-ø — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:20:51 +0000

My geneus dont work on both laptop or ipod, any ideas

By: Pokimon

Pokimon — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:27:34 +0000

Yaar Bimari to ye hai ke Sala kaun iTunes Acount banae, Kaun Paise Bhare, Ek to INDIA mein Itunes Store Nai hai, Upar se Paise Bharo, Kaun hai Jo Paise bhare. Hai Koi?

By: Pokimon

Pokimon — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:25:33 +0000

yaar tension kya ha, chado genius nu aap hi ho genius

By: mariah pendang

mariah pendang — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:36:54 +0000

hi, please can you instruct me how to create a video playlists. i want my videos to be organized.

By: N

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:09:46 +0000

I put all songs on my ipod first and then switched on genius on itunes, so now how do i get it on my ipod?

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:18:41 +0000

I tried turning it on and off in itunes, as well as syncing a playlist made with genius and still no results. What do I do?!

By: B

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:31:51 +0000

I'm trying Genius on my iPhone and it keeps saying for this one particular song that i don't have enough songs to go with it. But when i do it on iTunes, it works. I've tried putting the one i made on iTunes on my phone, and then making a playlist, but it still says i don't have enough songs.

Advice?

By: Aishu

Aishu — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 05:47:19 +0000

if you have all your songs in ur itunes library …go 2 store(an option on top)and activate genius

By: Dylan

Dylan — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:08:29 +0000

“Genius is unavalible for the selected song.”

By: Dylan

Dylan — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:06:32 +0000

I purchesed the new ipod chronicles, it has the genius porgram but i tried just about every song on my ipod and get the same messege every time. It just says The genius aplication doesn’t work for this song. Any suggestions?

By: Aishu

Aishu — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:51:55 +0000

i have a problem.my dads not ready 2 give his credit card info,so im not able 2 make an account with itunes.i cant get any of the games nd the genius playlist!.plz help!.how do i bypass dat billing info?

By: Kuhan

Kuhan — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:26:23 +0000

@bailey no, it’s 2.1 only, however, you can jailbreak 2.1 using QuickPwn

By: bailey

bailey — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:47:13 +0000

can you do this on a jailbroken unlocked iphone 1.1.4

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 03:00:23 +0000

thanks ive tried that, no luck. but ti doesnt matter because it got stolen last friday from school somehow

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:30:13 +0000

i tried the turning off and on and syncing suggestion with no luck

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:26:54 +0000

i am unable to activate the genius playlists on my ipod touch. i can put genius playlists on my ipod from itunes, but i cannot create on directly from my ipod. any ideas?

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:44:44 +0000

Hey Chris,

I think I know how to solve your problem. First turn off Genius in the Store drop-down menu in iTunes 8, then turn it back on again. Then create a Genius playlist and sync it into your iPod. It worked for me when I had the same problem.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:06:09 +0000

I downloaded the itunes 8 and the 2.1 update and i got genius and everything and i registered genius and everything but it doesnt work on my ipod touch. I have made many playlists on the computer and then put them on my ipod, but when u try to use genius on my ipod it just says that it is not enabled. i do not know what to do. any suggestions??

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:04:57 +0000

Hey, thanks Matt!!! Works like a charm.

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:46:45 +0000

Thanks jna, I’ll add that to the post!

By: jna

jna — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:27:23 +0000

I think you can also create a genius playlist “on the fly”- When you are playing a song you like so much you want to create a playlist from it, tap just underneath the song name so that the bar that shows your progress through the song appears. In the middle of this bar will be the genius symbol. Click on it and “presto” brand new playlist. You can actually make a chain of playlists each time you hit a great song use it to generate a new playlist- endless chain-o-genius…

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:00:02 +0000

At the bottom of the Genius playlist it says “25 Songs”. How can one create a playlist with 50 or 100 songs (as in iTunes)? I know one can always do a Refresh, but the fact that it says “25 Songs” seems to imply that there’s some way of creating a playlist with a different number of songs. Couldn’t find anything in Settings > Music. Thanks in advance.

Gotta wonder what kind of algorithm this thing uses, by the way. I generated a playlist and it included both “Black Blade” by Blue Oyster Cult, and “Whispering” by Nino Tempo and April Stevens. Huh?

By: IphoneGeek

IphoneGeek — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 05:41:26 +0000

Have to put this “GENIUS” thing to test

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 04:31:40 +0000

Ok, it works ok on my ipod touch, but there’s definitely an annoying bugs. Many times when I choose my desired seed song, it suddenly becomes the song that has similar name instead. So many remixes of the original songs are picked instead of the original versions.

By: Caillan

Caillan — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 02:27:26 +0000

I'm actually quite fond of this feature, when it was announced I didn't think I would have much use for it, but it's surprisingly accurate with my tastes.

I have about 2000 songs and most of the time I am able to create a playlist. One thing that is really annoying about this is that there is no support for any of my Beatles songs becasue they aren't in the iTunes Store. That's my major gripe so far to be honest, but otherwise it's been going pretty well.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:44:01 +0000

@Dane This is probably due to either lack of amount of plays or incorrect meta-data. When Genius goes to look for similar things it’s looking for certain album, artist, genre, etc. If it’s not entered right like in the iTunes store, then you won’t get any results. Now if certain songs are working iTunes and not on your iPod then that sounds like a bug.

By: Dane

Dane — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:29:29 +0000

@ Matt

I've think I've gone through about 50 songs on my iPod touch ( I have around 3,000) and I've only been able to create 1 playlist with an Incubus song. Every other song it says there aren't enough songs. Any ideas?

By: CHiRS

CHiRS — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:53:17 +0000

@ Matt:

It worked! Thanx again!!!

By: CHiRS

CHiRS — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:47:36 +0000

@ Matt:

Thanx man! I'll try that...

By: Manny

Manny — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:03:03 +0000

for some reason it doesnt work on my iphone when i click on the genious logo on my iphone it says i have to activate geniou on itunes and in itunes its already activated any ideas? please reply

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:41:46 +0000

@Rene It's Matt. :p

But welcome all, I'm sure other people are having a similar issue.

By: patrickbballer

patrickbballer — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:18:29 +0000

I heard it works. Better on iTunes

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:13:23 +0000

@Mike

Excellent tip! Thanks much for contributing!

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:07:21 +0000

Chris, The problem must be with you manually managing your music. I had this same problem and here's the fix:

In iTunes, click on a song and then the Genius button.

Click on "Save Playlist" at the top of the list of songs. This will create a playlist in your "playlists" section of iTunes.

Drag the newly created playlist up to your iPhone. It'll create a Genius playlist on your iPhone but more importantly the Genius function now appears to work on the iPhone itself.

By: CHiRS

CHiRS — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:03:39 +0000

The “Genius” feature seems to be missing on my iPhone. I looked for it…but it’s not there.