User's Manual

22 Chapter 2 Music Features
Organizing Your Music
Using iTunes, you can organize songs and other items into lists, called playlists, in any
way you want. For example, you can make playlists with songs to listen to while
exercising, or playlists with songs for a particular mood.
You can also make Smart Playlists that update automatically based on rules you define.
When you add songs to iTunes that match the rules, they automatically get added to
the Smart Playlist.
You can turn on Genius in iTunes and create playlists of songs that go great together.
Genius can also organize your music library automatically by grouping songs into
collections called Genius Mixes.
You can make as many playlists as you like using any of the songs in your iTunes library.
Adding a song to a playlist or later removing it doesn’t remove it from your library.
To make a playlist in iTunes:
1 Click the Add (+) button or choose File > New Playlist.
2 Type a name for the playlist.
3 Click Music in the Library list, and then drag a song or other item to the playlist.
To select multiple songs, hold down the Shift key or the Command (x) key on a Mac,
or the Shift key or the Control key on a Windows PC, as you click each song.
To make a Smart Playlist:
m Choose File > New Smart Playlist and define the rules for your playlist.
To make playlists on iPod classic when iPod classic isn’t connected to your computer,
see “Making On-The-Go Playlists on iPod classic” on page 31.
Turning On Genius in iTunes
Genius finds songs in your library that go great together and uses them to create
Genius playlists and Genius Mixes.
A Genius playlist is based on a song that you select. iTunes then compiles a Genius
playlist of songs that go great with the one you selected.
Genius Mixes are preselected compilations of songs that go great together. They’re
created for you by iTunes, using songs from your library. Each Genius Mix is designed
to provide a different listening experience each time you play it. iTunes creates up to
12 Genius Mixes, based on the variety of music in your iTunes library.
To create Genius playlists and Genius Mixes on iPod classic, you first need to turn on
Genius in iTunes. For information, open iTunes and choose Help > iTunes Help.