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When Apple debuted their song mix-creating Genius feature in iTunes, one of its more famous problem was the songs it didn’t work with. Obscure artists, albums that weren’t commercially available, and The Beatles. There were a few other major artists (AC/DC) who didn’t work with the nifty new gadget.

Well, that changed at some point, because after failing to create a playlist from Pat Suzuki’s melancholy “How High the Moon,” (now out of print) I clicked on “Oh! Darling” by the Fab Four and was greeted with a none-too-bad playlist that shifted through Floyd, Queen, and Bowie. I then tried it with “Revolution 9” and got a pop-up asking me if I was seriously trying to create a playlist based on that. Okay, not really. Here’s what that gave me:

Any other artists that Genius didn’t recognize at launch? If they were a big enough name that was conspicuous by their absence, give ‘em another try.

This, of course, should lead to rampant speculation that a Beatles/iTunes deal, which everyone involved says should be happening, but stalled over money issues. Or it could just be that Genius has finally scanned enough of its users’ playlists to hear about this amazing band that Paul McCartney was in before he directed the TV show Wings.