Q: Genius not available for songs

I agree. I have easily wasted 20-30 hrs going through and trying all the tips and fixes from Apple and others and still nothing.

None of us(those I listed in my past) have been able to Recover Genius and make it work.  Any suggestions on whose service to switch that has a good Genius like function?

I have seen some stuff online that Android has a genius function that works...

I am also extremely interested in an alternative service with a similar function. 

Ruby, there is an iPhone app called the "Last FM Scrobbler", which creates playlists not unlike Genius.

However, you'll need an account on www.last.fm to use the app.

Wanted to share what I have learned (not too much!). I have been  having the same problem, with *many* songs, including those from CDs, those purchased from iTunes, and even those I have previously used to create Genius Playlists. I contacted Apple, and eventually dealt with a supervisor. We have done a lot of stuff, including restoring my phone from a backup. Same problem. The engineer she spoke with suggested I "choose another song," which is preposterous, because so many are not working (including The Rolling Stones, which I have about 25 other Stones songs alone as matches). The engineer sent the problem to the "iTunes engineers," and I am supposed to hear back next week. I have over 1300 songs, and probably 1/4 of them do not generate any matches. Sometimes they are even on the same Greatest Hits CD as other songs that *do* have matches. Sent a screen shot to my Apple person for her to send along: it's a Genius Playlist I made from the song "Late in the Evening" (which will no longer generate a playlist); it's labelled by the song title, and the song is missing from its own playlist because Genius no longer thinks it has any Genius matches. Ridiculous.

That worked for me.  I was not able to create a genius playlist until I selected all songs.  Then I just right click on a song and have the CREATE GENIUS LIST option.  Works beautifully.  I am running 11.1....

Good news! Today, I went into my iTunes just to listen to some music. I tried creating a genius playlist for "dreams & nightmares" by Meek Mill, a song from 2012. I was expecting to see "genius can not create a playlist for the selected song", but to my surprise, it worked! It worked for most songs that it had before refused to work for. It even worked for songs released this year! There are still a few songs that don't work. For example, Juicy J's Stay Trippy album. Most of the songs worked, but a few still didn't work. I should also mention that the songs that didn't work were the ones that had a featured artest. I am now going to take the songs with featured artests, and get rid of them. For example, "Juicy J Feat. Lil Wayne & 2 Chainz" will simply become just "Juicy J." Most of the songs I changed worked! Except for "birthday song" by 2 Chainz. Also, the entire "Kaleidoscope Dream" album by Miguel won't create genius playlists. Interssting!

And now I can build a genius playlist off AC/DC, which I couldn't do at all before. Oh, frabjous day!

I am so, so glad you posted this. I checked after the lastest update, which had "bug fixes," but it was still not working then. And, I have not heard anything from the woman working on my case with Apple. I opened iTunes, updated Genius, crossed my fingers, and all my broken songs were fixed. That is, the ones that *used to* make Genius playlists, then didn't, now do again. To get them to work on my iPhone, I then had to sync my phone to the computer. Maybe there is another way to update Genius in the phone, but that's what I did. Before the sync, nada. After the sync, perfection. It even fixed the playlist made from a song that later had stopped working. Thank you so much for posting, or I might never have known!

This is extremely exciting. While I cannont confirm that all songs work on genius it does seem that songs that were previously inelligble are now working. Hopefully Apple increases awareness of the service!!!! Thank you Apple!!!

Genius completely not working for me. iTunes 11.2.2 din't have and "create genius list" option. back to create my own lists.

The solution on this page worked for me

http://deeemm.com/m-tutorials/36-mac-how-tos/196-fix-itunes-genius-is-unavailabl e-issue

The info has a '-' in the album title, and a ':' in the comments (Amazon Song Id:).

I removed these characters, updated genius then it worked.

Not sure how to remove all the non alphanumeric characters from 30,000 tracks though

I have the same problem and the same results the genius function doesn't work anymore. Previously was working on iOS on my iPhone and on iPad but from the last big software update iOS 10, the genius disappear entirely. Somebody help us?