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How To Create An iTunes Playlist

December 7, 2012

Now that you have your beautiful iPod Touch 32GB, how do you set about managing your music collection? There are many different ways of doing it. Everybody has a CD or LP record collection and step number one is downloading all this music on your iPod. All you need to do is plug your iPod onto a PC, and feed the PC’s disc slot with your CDs. The iPod will work out by itself that you want to download a CD, will ask for your permission and then it’ll get started. Then you can go ahead and create an iTunes Playlist.

How To Create An iTunes Playlist

Download Your Music Collection

The process is very fast with the latest 5th generation iPod Touch, around ten seconds for 100MB of sound (you’ll discover that music files are pretty hefty). If you’re starting out from LPs, you’ll have to convert them into digital sound, either files or CDs. To do this you’ll have to ask  around any music store, there always is a solution. Whatever you do, don’t throw your LPs away afterwards, they have some monetary, as well as sentimental value. The other basic method of feeding your iPod Touch is to download music from the web. You can do this directly on the iPod by hitting the iTunes website. There are literally tens of thousands of titles available there, the only snag is that you will have to pay to have them.

Now that the first hurdle is over, and you have thousands of songs at your fingertips, how to enjoy them? The easy way is to play them using the “shuffle” function. It will save you the hassle of scrolling up and down the iPod searching for something…but it also means you’ll have no control over the choice of songs. No doubt you’ll know all of them, after all you loaded them, but what if the shuffle insists on playing rock anthems when you’re in the mood for a soft bluesy melody? This is where playlists come into play.

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Creating Playlists On iTunes

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Through iTunes you can create two types of playlists: the Smart Playlist, which iTunes works out for itself once you have selected some key parameters (genre, artists, length of song or playlist etc), and the Manual playlist, where you are the absolute king.

You will start by clicking on “+” in the bottom left-hand corner of your iTunes screen, and by giving a name to your playlist, which will then appear in the left column of your screen. Then, all you’ll have to do is click back to your music library and scroll through it.

Every time you hit a song you want to include in the playlist, simply click on the line and drag it into your playlist’s line in the left column of your screen. That’s it! You can drag a multiple selection of songs by clicking on the downshift button, or you can add a whole playlist to another simply by dragging it up or down the left hand column.

If you want to add genres or whole artists selections, click on “View” in the top command line of the screen, then click “Show Browser” and the whole of your library, grouped under headings such as Artists or Genres, will appear. Again all you’ll have to do is drag the selected information into the playlist, and release to add.

In this way you’ll be able to build customized playlists to suit all your moods and moments, and you’ll get a lot more from your iPod.

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