Add playlist to ipod

I just upgraded to the latest iTunes for Windows and am working my way through it. I figured out how to make a playlist in iTunes, can I drag that onto my ipod as a play list or must I make an on the go playlist? My wife thought you could create a playlist in iTunes and transfer it over to the ipod. Help?

I figured this out by looking through some other responses to the new iTunes update.
Sorry for the wasted post.
While in iTunes I went to the VIEW menu and selected 'Show Column Bar' and now the format looks similar to the older version. This time the drag and drop worked in the side column.
Yipee!

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how can I add playlist to ipod nano

You can't.
You should create playlists in iTunes and then transfer them to the iPod.
If you need to change it, do it in iTunes and then transfer again to the iPod.
Do you mean an On-the-Go playlists?
They only transfer from the iPod to iTunes when in Auto-sync.

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how do i add a playlist to my ipod shuffle

If this is the current 4th gen (or 3rd gen) shuffle, you can add a playlist or multiple playlists. (Earlier shuffles basically acted as ONE playlist.)
There are two ways to add playlists to a 3rd or 4th gen shuffle. Manually and using automatic syncing. I'll describe automatic syncing...
NOTE: When you set up automatic syncing, the iPod's existing content is replaced. Any songs on the iPod that are not in your iTunes library will be lost. If this is a problem, please post back. I can describe how to add playlists using the manual method.
First, if the iTunes sidebar (along left side of window) is hidden, from the menu bar, under View, select Show Sidebar. The iPod appears in the sidebar, under DEVICES, when connected.
Select the iPod in the sidebar. To the right, its Summary screen is shown. Toward the top, where it says Summary, click on Music next to Summary. This Music screen is where you tell iTunes what and how to sync (for songs).
Check the box for Sync Music. This setting enables automatic syncing. Choose the option to sync Selected playlists, artists, albums, and genres. Look under Playlists for the playlist or playlists (in your iTunes library) that you want on the shuffle, and select (checkmark) them. You can also select other items on the other lists, as desired.
When you click Apply, the songs in your selections sync to the iPod (include the selected playlists). Going forward, to update your iPod, you can update those playlists in your iTunes library (add/remove songs). The iPod does not need to be connected. The next time you connect the iPod (or click Sync if already connected), iTunes updates the iPod with the same changes.

Cannot add playlist to Ipod

Whenever I try to add my playlist from my computer to my ipod, the crossed out circle appears, and I cannot add it. I found that when I go to my Ipod, the bar that shows how much space is left has a lock next to it. Does this mean anything?

It is in Autosync.
Select the iPod in iTunes.
Click on the music tab.
Select the playlists you want to put onto the iPod.
When you wanto add/delete music from the iPod, just do it from these playlists and then sync the iPod.

Cannot delete or add playlists to iPod using manual adjust option

Hello!
First time I tried manual adjust it worked for me (I deleted 2 lists off my iPod, and added a new one).
But now, two days after I did that, adding or deleting playlists simply won't work.
When I connected my iPod to the computer, iTunes told me that my iPod couldn't sync because there was not enough space for that (1 MB).
Then, I try deleting 1 or 2 playlists from the iPod. Despite the deleting, the number of songs in the Music library is still the same. Which means, nothing has been deleted.
And when I try to add a new playlist as a substitute for the one I tried to delete, it only adds the playlist, without the songs in it, though.
Can anybody help me?
Thanks in advance.
PS: managing my songs manually is important for me, because the number of songs I have in iTunes is higher than my iPod capacity. So, from time to time, I may want to put some songs in it, and take other songs out of it.

Hello!
First time I tried manual adjust it worked for me (I deleted 2 lists off my iPod, and added a new one).
But now, two days after I did that, adding or deleting playlists simply won't work.
When I connected my iPod to the computer, iTunes told me that my iPod couldn't sync because there was not enough space for that (1 MB).
Then, I try deleting 1 or 2 playlists from the iPod. Despite the deleting, the number of songs in the Music library is still the same. Which means, nothing has been deleted.
And when I try to add a new playlist as a substitute for the one I tried to delete, it only adds the playlist, without the songs in it, though.
Can anybody help me?
Thanks in advance.
PS: managing my songs manually is important for me, because the number of songs I have in iTunes is higher than my iPod capacity. So, from time to time, I may want to put some songs in it, and take other songs out of it.

ITune won't add playlist to iPod Touch and it automatically syncs

Hi,
I did a search but couldn't find exactly the answers to my questions.
Okay #1 I plug in my iPod Touch and manually open iTunes. Even though I have clicked manual syncs iTunes ends up syncing automatically.
#2 I have a playlist in iTunes and I can't get it into my iPod Touch.
Murphys Law states that it's all probably an easy fix but for the life of me I can't figure it out... My iPod video is easier to use iTunes but noooo I had to upgrade to the Touch
Thanks,
Moochelle

Sweet!! That problem is now fixed... I forgot all about clicking the sync in preferences I had it clicked only in the device when the ipod was plugged in.
One question down... one to go

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please help! i am a fitness instructor that DEPENDS ON MY PLAYLISTS, and ever since i upgraded to itunes 11 last week, i CANNOT figure out how to add playlists to my ipod! the tutorials were not helpful, as i followed instructions, and it DID NOT WORK. i am VERY frustrated. can someone help?
thanks!

revert the look and feel to itunes 10
View > Show Sidebar
View > Show Status bar.
Now everything will work before.
Click on your iPod in the lefthand window. Then use the music sync page to select your playlists. Or drag the playlists to your device

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Thanks! I have several ipod books and they told me about manually updating songs but not playlists. That tutorial is VERY helpful. I assume that if you manually update the playlist, all the songs contained in it would have had to been previously manually updated to the ipod....to say it another way, updating the playlist does not transfer any songs. Am I correct?

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I just upgraded from an old Pentium computer to a new Dell XPS 18 running Windows 8.1. Downloaded latest version of iTunes to the new computer, then successfully transferred library content from the old computer to the new one via the external hard drive method. All material -- iTunes purchases, music ripped from CDs, a movie, even MP3 files purchased long ago from another source -- transferred successfully; everything plays on the new computer just fine.
My problem is that the "old" playlists didn't transfer over. After connecting my iPod Touch to the new computer, I verified that the iPod has the latest version of iOS, and its content (including the old/original playlists) displays in the window on the left-hand side of the iTunes screen. The really frustrating thing is that I can find no way to transfer the old playlists to my new iTunes library. I've tried dragging and dropping, selecting and pasting, and exploration of all the options menus, but no luck. Creating a new playlist in the new library and then clicking on the "Add To" button opens up a window into which to drop dragged songs/folders from the new library listing, but simultaneously closes the left-hand display window with all of my iPod's current playlists depicted.
I appear successfully to have backed up my iPod to the new computer, but all the sync menu options are grayed out. When I tried clicking on the Sync button, I got a warning that syncing to the new library would erase everything from the old library -- presumably obliterating my playlists with it. I have about a dozen different playlists, some of them with several hundred songs, drawn from a library of a few thousand individual items. Is there some means of importing/transferring the old playlists to the new computer/library, so that I don't manually have to drag and drop hundreds and hundreds of songs into a new set of playlists? Am I overlooking something really obvious or simple? Can I safely turn on Home Sharing and then import or paste the old playlists into the new computer's library. I don't think I'm too much of a Luddite, but given the size of my library I'm very leery of turning on Home Sharing (to the old Pentium computer) after I've successfully transferred over many GBs of content from the old machine to the new.
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I just upgraded from an old Pentium computer to a new Dell XPS 18 running Windows 8.1. Downloaded latest version of iTunes to the new computer, then successfully transferred library content from the old computer to the new one via the external hard drive method. All material -- iTunes purchases, music ripped from CDs, a movie, even MP3 files purchased long ago from another source -- transferred successfully; everything plays on the new computer just fine.
My problem is that the "old" playlists didn't transfer over. After connecting my iPod Touch to the new computer, I verified that the iPod has the latest version of iOS, and its content (including the old/original playlists) displays in the window on the left-hand side of the iTunes screen. The really frustrating thing is that I can find no way to transfer the old playlists to my new iTunes library. I've tried dragging and dropping, selecting and pasting, and exploration of all the options menus, but no luck. Creating a new playlist in the new library and then clicking on the "Add To" button opens up a window into which to drop dragged songs/folders from the new library listing, but simultaneously closes the left-hand display window with all of my iPod's current playlists depicted.
I appear successfully to have backed up my iPod to the new computer, but all the sync menu options are grayed out. When I tried clicking on the Sync button, I got a warning that syncing to the new library would erase everything from the old library -- presumably obliterating my playlists with it. I have about a dozen different playlists, some of them with several hundred songs, drawn from a library of a few thousand individual items. Is there some means of importing/transferring the old playlists to the new computer/library, so that I don't manually have to drag and drop hundreds and hundreds of songs into a new set of playlists? Am I overlooking something really obvious or simple? Can I safely turn on Home Sharing and then import or paste the old playlists into the new computer's library. I don't think I'm too much of a Luddite, but given the size of my library I'm very leery of turning on Home Sharing (to the old Pentium computer) after I've successfully transferred over many GBs of content from the old machine to the new.
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How to create a playlist on iPod nano gen6?

in all manuals it says and shows go to playlist icon, but I don't have such icon. and in iTunes it only offers me genius mixes, can't find any way to create my own playlist. tried google etc, but no results

Hi kawarik,
I found some information on how to create playlists on iPod nano (6th generation) here:
iPod nano User Guide
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/iPod_nano_6thgen_User_Guide.pdf
The information starts on page 25:
Creating and editing playlists
Create a playlist:
1 On the Home screen, tap Music, and then tap Playlists.
2 Flick down, and then tap Add.
3 Tap a category (Songs, Albums, Podcasts, and so on), and then tap the items you want to add.
Don’t tap Done until you’ve added everything you want to include in the playlist.
4 Swipe left to continue adding content.
You can add content from any category. For example, you can mix podcasts with songs in a
single playlist.
5 When you finish, tap Done.
The new playlist is named New Playlist 1 (or New Playlist 2, and so on). The next time you sync, you can change the title in iTunes. When you sync again, the playlist title on iPod nano is updated.
Since I am quoting this article out of context, I also located the section on multitouch gestures (page 11) to help with step 2 above:
Flick
Flick your finger quickly up or down to scroll rapidly. You can wait for scrolling to stop,
or touch anywhere on the screen to stop it immediately. Touching the screen won’t choose
or activate anything.
In some lists, such as Playlists, you can flick down to show editing controls at the top.
Cheers!
- Ari

"Recently added" playlist on iPod Touch problem

I don't know what happened but suddenly my recently added playlist on iPod Touch stopped sorting my songs as they were added (by date) they are all random now. It's pretty annoying since sometimes i just want to listen the the previously imported songs and it's impossible to find them.
Now, as for the recently added playlist on my iTunes,they appear sorted the way i like them.
Does anyone know how can I tell my iPod to sort my songs this way?
Thanks

This is a known bug with the 3.1.x OS. As a workaround, either go into the playlist definition and un-check "Live Updating", or you can add some criteria that intentionally breaks Live Updating (e.g. add the criteria "Playlist Is Music", where "Music" is the general iTunes folder for music items).

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Hey.
Why won't you do a 'recently added' playlist in ipod as we have in itunes?
it can be very helpful!
also, why ipod classic doesn't support hebrew language?
Thanks.

Nobody here can tell you why some feature you want isn't available, but you can ask Apple to add it via
http://www.apple.com/feedback

Adding playlists to ipod creates duplicates

When I add a playlist to my iPod nano, and the playlist contains songs that are already on my iPod, iTunes copies the song to my iPod a second time, so I have 2 copies of those songs on the iPod.
-the iPod is set up to manually manage songs & playlists
-the iPod is set to convert all songs to 128kbps AAC when adding songs
-10.6.4, iTunes 9.2.1, iPod has most recent software.
anyone else experiencing this?

Hi, welcome to Apple Discussions.
Are you certain you're getting duplicate track on the iPod, or is it just copying them over again? iTunes manages the transfers whether auto-syncing or manually managing not the iPod. When you manually manage you know best - if you drag on a bunch of tracks iTunes will just do as it's told, replacing exisiting copies with new ones if that's what you tell it to do. It's actually much easier to sync with selected playlists. If you update a playlist or some information about a track this will be automatically reflected next time you sync.
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I need to add my new ipod to itunes. it will only show the old dead ipod. i want to keep the music, but get rid of the info of the old dead ipod and add my new one and its info. please help.

Hello,
I need to add my new ipod to itunes.
itunes will only show the old, dead ipod that my niece had given me secondhand.
I just got a new one and want to put in it's serial number, etc. but keep the music.
Please help, I've been going around in circles online for hours. I don't want to merely change the name of the old ipod, which is the only info I can find.
Thanks.

"In addition, I would like to get all of the music files that are already on my ipod on to my new computer"
Open iTunes and select edit/preferences/advanced/general. Put a check mark in the box marked "copy files to iTunes music folder when adding to library" and also "keep iTunes music folder organized", then click 'ok'.
Connect the iPod whilst holding down the shift/ctrl keys to prevent any auto sync, and if you see the dialogue window asking if you want to sync to this itunes library, click 'no'.
Then go to file/add folder, open 'my computer', select your iPod and click 'ok'.
The music files should transfer to your iTunes.
However it appears that no playlists or any other info such as ratings/last played etc will transfer.
If this is important to you, you may want to use other options.
There's Yamipod. This is a free program that transfers music and playlists etc from iPod to iTunes.
Once the music from your iPod is in your new iTunes library, you can go about adding new music as you did previously.

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