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1. Comment - Apple iTunes 8.0: A closer look at 'Genius'

   (Sep 11, 2008 - 4:53 PM)

   The reason that you have to jump through hoops to turn Genius on is because whatever it does when it's cataloging your album is a total CPU hog. My first generation MBP had both cores pegged for about an hour, all told, and I had to stop the search a couple of times because my laptop was overheating.
   
   The Genius database is in some undocumented format, and about 13MB for my 40GB music library.
   
   The result of the process? About the only songs that it works for are the tracks I bought from the iTunes store, and those that are tagged *exactly* like the ones in the store. I have used a couple of social networking plugins for iTunes that provided the same playlist generation functionality in the past, as well as Audioscrobbler (now known as Last.FM), and they all do a much better job than Apple at generating playlists and finding new music that I like.
   
   Hopefully they will improve it in the future, but for now it's a poor cousin to the third-party tools it's copied from.