iTunes 8.0 - Genius - unknown error 4010

Got a solution for my error. After deleting radio streams and deleting or restoring dead stracks Genius works.

So use this if you want just to remove dead tracks http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=removedeadsuper
or this to find them and restore them
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=listmias

Hopes it works for you all

I thought I would try genius anyway...I opened the genius bar and It kind of works. I found that with most of my artists it says it can't find them and offers the top ten selling albums. How dumb is that? I turned the stupid thing off and won't be using it again.

Is Apple the new Microsoft? Come on guys wakey wakey! Not too much to ask that someone in Apple lets us know whether this error is being caused buy a local pc issue (library size / broken files / radio streams / dog ate my homework) or a server capacity issue in which case I'll just sit back and wait...

I tried deleting my all of my radio stations and that still hasnt helped.

I've tried soo many times since iTunes 8 came out, at different times of the day. I'm beginning to get real upset, and I know its not a server load thing because my friends have turned on genius around the same time I have and no one else has had any issues.

Apple, please fix this!

You also deleted dead tracks?
I restarted itunes after fixing all the dead track.

I ran the script, and had no dead tracks.

So that ain't the fix for me.

Thank you - that solution worked for me too. Removed all my audio streams from the library, deleted the genius database (for good measure) and I now have genius!

Thanks.

Deleted 12 dead tracks (Movies, not Music though), restarted iTunes. Still getting the error.

If you delete the genius database also. Maybe the dead tracks or streams is already indexed in the database. This will give an error on the itunes server I think.

I just deleted the iTunes Library Genius.itdb and iTunes Library Extras.itdb and restarted iTunes. Genius is now recreating the dbs.. 300Gb+ of data (approx. 41k tracks) so it's gonna take a while.

add me to the list of extremely frustrated folks on this list. i hate to complain about a free upgrade feature not working, but after fighting with a macbook pro that crashes daily(and 3 Semi-Transparent Screens of Death in the last month,(STSOD, Apple's new equivalent of Microsoft's BSOD), a buggy iPhone 3G that never works as well as the 2G, and now the botched iTunes Genius feature, I'm about ready to give up on Apple.

Apple, please fix! I've spent at least $3000 in iTunes in the last 2 years(on top of a 2G iphone, a nano, a 3G iPhone, a macbook pro, 24" cinema display, etc., etc.), and I'm about to switch purely to Amazon, eMusic, or whatever else. The culmination of all these problems combined with an extremely vague error message is absolutely driving me nuts. I'm about to buy my first Thinkpad at this point!

/sorry for the rant, but I've been trying to get this to work for the past 3-4 days, and coupled with the experiences of everything else in the 3-4 months, it's completely ******* me off! Apple, please don't release stuff until you've THOROUGHLY QA'D YOUR SOFTWARE/HARDWARE.

Tried the script, then deleted the genius db files, and i'm not checking permissions, etc. Hopefully it'll work.

Didn't work...

Deleted the Genius db after removing dead tracks, restarted iTunes and let it recreate it again (2+ hours). Still no luck.

I have the same problem and no idea what's causing it. At first I wondered whether I needed to open a port on the firewall or something but obviously not if no-one else has had to.

Then I wondered whether it might be something to do with having two different iTMS accounts set up in one Library that was throwing it even though I logged in as the primary one.

Anyone else got any theories?