How to disable Genius Mixes on IOS - Ipad2?

I've been looking around for a fix to this for a while as well. This will probably get deleted, but I found something crazy recently that makes me even more upset about genius. I'm not sure about you guys, but my music collection is freakin huge. I was a DJ for five years, so I've got over 1000 CDs that over the years I've dumped into iTunes, and purchased a ton from there as well. All in all, I've got about 50K items in iTunes. Unfortunately, since iTunes forces you to use Genius, whenever I load it up, it takes at least seven minutes for the library to fully load. Granted, I've got an older PC, but that is just silly. It got even sillier when I saw a tip about deleting your Itunes Genius Library.itsb file. I delete it out, and iTunes loads almost instantly! So not only do I get phantom playlists, not only is it a fun little add on at best, but it slows down my startup time exponentially. All I can think of at this point is that iTunes is data mining with Genius. I've never met anyone who has a device that actually uses it.

I'm not saying anyone should do it, but now about once a month, I delete out that file and resume using iTunes like it was meant to be used. I'd love to hear if other people with large collections are having the same nonsense issue with a useless add on.

In iTunes look at the drop down lists top left, under store drop down list hit turn off Genius.
This can be restarted should you choose to at a later date.

Unfortunately there is no option to turn off Genius in the store drop down menu, at least not if you're using Match. So while I think Match is a great product you are absolutely penalized with unwanted playlist clutter and cruft on your iDevices in the process. Totally invasive and unnecessary. It's a shame really and is the kind of overreaching control that ****** some people off about Apple and their occassional "our way or no way" approach.

I've been a huge fan since 1996, but this last year Apple has really started impeding me as much as they've been enabling me. Censoring my emails etc... Anyway, I'm now ranting. Let's just say that for the first time since '96 I'm open to the idea of switching to another system.

WOW, they censored out the word p1sses. :-( Case in point.

Just look at the Genius Icon on the left in iTunes, then find Genius Mixes and begin to erase them. Sync your iPad and it will dessapear!

Not if you have iTunes Match turned on. Turning off Genius in iTunes doesn't save you from seeing Genius lists on your iOS thingie if iTunes Match is turned on. That's the issue--Genius on the iOS thingie, not Genius in iTunes on your Mac/Pee Cee.

Exactly, there's no apparent way to get rid of the "Genius" playlists on my iPad (3) and keep Match enabled. Puts the stupid in genius if you ask me, now I have to scroll through 13 of Apple's playlists before I can see my own. And to add insult to injury the scrolling is brutally jagged and glitchy (iTunes only) since I signed up for iTunes Match. Sometimes my iPad feels like my painfully crippled iPhone 3Gs (I'm waiting for 5, in Canada you get locked in for 3 years). If this isn't resolved I'll certainly take advantage of the potential to upgrade my matched tracks to 256, then I'll dump Match completely and reclaim my iPads smooth scrolling while riding myself of all the space wasting Apple generated playlists.

Hi, i think ive figured this out. On your ipad in the music app, go to 'more' then under 'shared' tick the library option instead of ipad. Ive just done this, the genius mixes are gone & its only showing my own playlists 🙂

Hmmm, when I go to "more" all I see is "Genres" and "Composers", nothing about "shared". This truly is exasperating to have lists forced onto my device. I will certainly cancel match because of this, once I've updated the sample rate of my library.

That won't work. All that is doing is showing you your shared iTunes on a Mac within the same WiFi network. So if your not at home that doesn't work.

Oh I didn't realise that. For me though, it will do as I rarely take my iPad out of the house.

I can't believe how invasive this stuff is getting. Have we seen the end of 'upgrading' ....because it seems that time and time again, revisions can be defined by the functionality they dispose of, not what they add.

I found myself investigating the viability of a Dell Workstation running Windows 8 yesterday ....I'm on my 18th Mac in 20 years, but that's how p****d-off I am with Apple right now. Turns out though, that platforms are much like political parties ...there are no good ones, just ones of varying calamity.

The workaround mentioned above, placing all playlists into a "My Playlists" folder is a great one, as in iOS the relative folder level is persistent when changing back-and-forth between other views. No need to ever look at the Genius playlists again. Unfortunately, there is no way of deleting the numerous tracks that genius has already downloaded to my iPad without resetting the system, and now there's no way it seems of doing that without 'upgrading' to iOS 6. Ouchhh !!

I can't wait to see what iTunes 10.8 is going to dispose of with said functionality ....but the screen shots don't look too promising, and neither does the tagline that implies they've simplified it. Yeah, and wasn't it so difficult to use ...NOT. Having sold truck loads of music it does not seem to occur to them that people have huge amounts of music to organise and could actually do with some sophistication. Oh well, rant over, better listen to some Dan Gibson and get my energy rebalanced.

Unfortunately, there is no way of deleting the numerous tracks that genius has already downloaded to my iPad without resetting the system, and now there's no way it seems of doing that without 'upgrading' to iOS 6. Ouchhh !!

Yes, there is. Go to Settings > General > Usage. Tap the Storage button. In the list that loads, tap Music. In the Music screen, select Edit in the upper right corner. then tap the Minus sign to earse all the music that iTunes Match has downloaded to your iPad.

@paulimpola. Thanks for that. Though it would still be nice to be able to choose which version of iOS to restore to.

QuartzVIBE wrote:

Hi, i think ive figured this out. On your ipad in the music app, go to 'more' then under 'shared' tick the library option instead of ipad. Ive just done this, the genius mixes are gone & its only showing my own playlists 🙂

This did the trick. THANK YOU!!!