Looks like if I would have read the Apple discussion post a bit longer before hastily writing my last post, I would have found the solution. For anybody that is consistently getting a 4010 error, this seems to work:

(1) Open [username]/Music/iTunes/ in the Finder.
(2) Make a copy of "iTunes Music Library.xml"
(3) Validate the XML file. The easiest way to do this, if you have Firefox 3, is to open the "iTunes Music Library.xml" file in Firefox. Depending on how large the file is, this might take some time. Presumably, at this point, you'll get an error message saying that there was an XML Parsing Error.
(4) Find the song that is causing the problem. If you can't tell which song it is, you may have to open up the file in a text editor, and navigate to the line number specified.
(5) Go into iTunes, find the song, right click it, and click "Get Info".
(6) You should see some funky characters somewhere. At this point, you can either (a) delete the song, or (b) click on Info, and make sure to completely delete and re-write all the information.
(7) Once you've done that, re-load the file into Firefox and correct all the songs until there are no more errors.
(8) When Firefox parses the file correctly, quit iTunes.
(9) Open the [username]/Music/iTunes/ folder in Finder again and remove the "iTunes Library Extras.itdb" and "iTunes Library Genius.itdb" files by dragging them to the Trash and emptying it.
(10) Restart iTunes, enable Genius, and voila!

It's quite unfortunate that iTunes doesn't seem to be able to repair corrupted XML, or at least tell you that that's the problem.

 


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Richard Price link
09/19/2008 23:53

Wow, that really is quite a workaround!!

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lydia link
09/26/2008 13:30

wow. I keep bringing this up... But, weebly should make an iPhone Application!!! It'll make life 10x easier and you will gain money and mostl likely more weebly users... I would definently pay $3-$10 for it.

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brian soule
09/28/2008 22:18

It's all about the user generated blog entry rating system

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Writer X
10/07/2008 18:20

Autosave blog drafts are an imperative

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Matthew link
10/17/2008 02:58


thank u r information

it very useful

u r blog Is very nice



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Fatal link
11/01/2008 01:14

Thanks for describe this trouble

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Dot Dot Dot
11/02/2008 22:30

What if you don't have Firefox?

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Johny link
11/05/2008 23:58

Thanks for the help!!!

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TDKTony
12/21/2008 11:15

Thank you very much, I have encountered the odd wierd character in comments or composer before and occasionally put my ipod into a reboot loop!

great little blog!

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02/14/2009 17:44

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Unlocked iPhone Buyers Guide link
05/06/2009 15:57

Hi David,

Handy little tip you've posted here.

Love the little blog - cute!

A.

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