I wrote two weeks ago about my troubles with Apple’s Genius. not being able to work with my vast music collection.
I am happy to now say that the problem seems to have been fixed on Apple’s end. I have submitted my Genius report on both my Media Center PC and my wife’s laptop and they were both able to go through. I am going to chalk this one up to network congestion on Apple’s servers. If anybody else is still having the problem, feel free to let me know in the comments below.
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Tags: Apple, Fail, Genius, iTunes, Network Timeout
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.
A couple of weeks ago I purchased an Apple TV. This is something I have always wanted, but never broke down and purchased. Well I finally did, and I’ve got to say that I have been very happy with it. I rented a movie to watch with my wife the first day I had it hooked up, and haven’t used it too much since, the reason being I need to setup my iTunes library on my HTPC to work the way I want it with the AppleTV.
So tonight I was home at a decent hour from work, and we decided to watch a family movie after dinner. The children decided they wanted to watch “Get Smart Bruce & Lloyd: Out of Control”. I paid the $4.99 to rent the flick in HD and it started the download. About 5 minutes later I got the message that the flick was ready for playback, and I hit the play button. This is when the fun started. It only showed a white screen and nothing else, if I fast forwarded I could see the name of the chapter, but still no video. So of course I turned to the all knowing google, after a quick search I was able to find this post on the Apple Support Discussions Forum. Basically the resolution to this problem was a restart, which after thinking about it myself made perfect sense, since the Apple TV is basically a trimmed down Mac Mini. So I am happy to say that after the restart we were able to watch the flick, and enjoy some time together as a family.
