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Stay connected Illustration by Rose Wong. Enter your email. Just choose Genius under Playlists, touch New, then select any song from the presented list to generate a new Genius playlist. Well, not only, no. Genius does reinvigorate your listening, there's no doubt about that - but if you choose to turn on the Genius sidebar you also get a list of possible purchases that match your initial choice should you wish to add to your collection.

The first part of the list is Top Songs You Are Missing the rest of the album, for example and the rest are recommendations. Of course, you can preview before you press that irrevocable Buy button. Another use for Genius is finding songs for a specific purpose for a slideshow etc. Choose one getting near to what you want, and look through the Genius recommendations to consider others.

Finally, have you tried the new Visualizer sic in iTunes 8? Give it a go - it's called iTunes Visualizer and it's based on one called Magnetosphere that used to be available as an iTunes add-on. Turn it on and change the type of Visualizer under the View menu. This article originally appeared in the NZ Herald - www.

Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Already subscribed? Log in. You can revoke your opt-in choice at any time by choosing to turn off the Genius feature from the Store menu. Upon opting-out, iTunes will no longer send information about your iTunes library to Apple.

If you have elected to share your library from multiple computers, you need to turn off the Genius feature from each computer.