Jason PercivalTechnology Enthusiast

More of a dunce, then a genius!Filed Under: Apple, Fail, Software, Technology, Troubleshoot

Well today was the Let’s Rock media event from Apple, and most of the predictions by Kevin Rose were correct.  Totally revamped iPod line, iTunes 8, new headphones, new features. 

As soon as I heard about the new Genius feature, I figured it was right up my alley, I need something to get me to listen to more of my vast music collection.How vast you say?  I have 375,590 songs which if I played straight through would play for 111 days.  That’s after the great Windows Home Server data corruption bug lost a whole bunch of tune as well.  How did I acquire such a collection?  For 7 years I worked for the largest specialty music retailer in the United States (Trans World Entertainment).  I started as a seasonal hire, and worked all the way up to being the store manager.  It was during my tenure at The Wall (now f.y.e.) that I met a lot of cool people in the business both musicians, and product reps.  The product reps were the people to know, not only did I get an unlimited supply of free music, but also a good supply of free DVDs.  Of course being the geek that I am I digitized all this content and have had it for years.  A lot of it admittedly un-listened to.  So you can see why I am going to enjoy Genius.

Well here is my problem.  I guess my music collection is a little too large, well too large to send to Apple at least.  I keep getting a network connection timeout when trying to upload my Genius information to them, I have tried now three times and the same error happens.  Now I’ve checked all my equipment and it’s not a problem on my end, it’s on Apple’s.  Maybe the cloud is just over capacity.  We all know Apple has had some capacity issues with iTunes before, mainly with the launch of the iPhone, and iPhone 3G. 

Then we have reports of the Genius being well just that a genius, but other reports of the Genius being pretty dumb.

Maybe I will write more once I get it working, that is if I ever get my information submitted.

After getting all that written, I am now in the “Delivering your Genius results…” stage.  About 33% of the way to be exact, maybe Apple sensed, well fuck as soon as I wrote sensed it time out again.

I’m not using the network for anything else, no large file transfers, just writing this blog post.  Like I said, it’s not my connection it just must be Apple having a hard time delivering my Genius information.  I guess my copy of  iTunes 8 is just going to be a dunce for a while.  I hope the issue can be resolved, so that I may get to know my music a little bit better.

I am going to attempt the same thing on my XP machine, and also my OS X machine. 

UPDATE!! You can find my newest post here with the resolution.