User's Manual

30 Chapter 2 Music Features
To create a Genius playlist with iPod classic:
1 Select a song, and then press and hold the Center button until a menu appears.
You can select a song from a menu or playlist, or you can start from the Now Playing
screen.
2 Choose Start Genius, and then press the Center button. The new playlist appears.
3 To keep the playlist, choose Save Playlist.
The playlist is saved with the title and artist of the song you used to make the playlist.
After you save a Genius playlist, you can edit it in iTunes and sync again.
4 To change the playlist to a new one based on the original selected song, choose
Refresh.
If you refresh a saved playlist, the new playlist replaces the previously saved one.
You won’t be able to recover the previous playlist.
To play a Genius playlist:
m Choose Music > Playlists >, and then choose a playlist.
Playing Genius Mixes
Genius Mixes are created for you by iTunes and contain songs from your library that go
great together. Genius Mixes provide a different listening experience each time you
play one. iTunes creates up to 12 Genius Mixes, depending on the variety of music in
your iTunes library.
To learn how to sync Genius Mixes to iPod classic, see “Syncing Genius Playlists and
Genius Mixes to iPod classic” on page 25.
To play a Genius Mix:
1 Choose Music > Genius Mixes.
2 Use the Click Wheel (or press Next/Fast-forward or Previous/Rewind) to browse the
Genius Mixes. The dots at the bottom of the screen indicate how many Genius Mixes
are synced to iPod classic.
3 To start playing a Genius Mix, press the Center button or Play/Pause when you see
its screen.
The Speaker icon
appears when the
selected Genius Mix is
playing.
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