The new iTunes 8 came out yesterday! Excellent. Loving the new features - especially the Genius playlist thingie. Apart from… It’s not ACTUALLY that good. Sorry. If you’re listening to a popular artist (Say Coldplay, Michael Jackson or similar), it’s great. If you’re listening to one of the reams of Christian music albums, forget it.
Genius just pops up a message saying “Tough” (see the image for the proper text) when I click the little Genius button while Tim Hughes is playing. Tim Hughes is one of the most popular worship leaders in the UK (and a top guy to boot). I was hoping it would find other inspirational songs when I hit the button. Alas, just the error.
The iTunes store had no trouble finding other Christian tracks for me to buy in the Genius sidebar! Figures. Pandora (although that’s no longer available) and last.fm don’t ever have this trouble. So why does iTunes. I put to you that Genius is truly not Genius.
EDIT: It can’t even handle the Mark Ronson - Version album. That’s far less obscure than some big religion thing!