Creating Playlists For Shuffle

None of the prescribed ways to create a playlist on my Shuffle are working. Any suggestions?

So, effectively, there is only "one" playlist on any given Shuffle? The only means then to order songs on my Shuffle is to manually move them around in the "Contents" window/tab - correct?

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Is it REALLY not possible to create playlists for apps within iTunes?
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How do I create playlist for opera so arias are in performance order?

How do I create a new playlist for a complete operate so the arias are in performance order?

.............I have created a new folder; let's call
it 'music of today'.
I'll now create a playlist within 'music of today',
I'll call that 'Jem' - all music by Jem is now being
transfered from my library into the playlist folder
called 'Jem'.
I now want to transfer 'Jem' onto my iPod. I'll
transfer my folder, with my playlist attached, to my
connected iPod. Its now finished transfering. I have
now viewed my iPod in this order:
music> Album > ...........Oh? No title only the
listed music from my playlist. I was expecting my
album title: Jem !!??
I wipe the iPod clear and instead of transfering the
folder I simply just transfer my playlist....but the
same thing is happening.
How do I get my playlist onto my iPod so that it is
well organised and the album show the name of the
album rather than just the playlist.
I am really, truly stuck since I believe I have tried
various methods but my iPod doesn't want to show the
album name - what am I doing wrong. I have checked
out the apple site and the manual but it really
doesn't go into too much depth where this is
concerned. :o)
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To create a PLAYLIST, you do not need to create a FOLDER first. If you want to create a plylist called 'Jem' you just need to click the add playlist button within iTunes and name it Jem.
But maybe I'm just misunderstanding you and that's exactly what you are doing.
Within iTunes you can just make a playlist called Jem and put all your music by Jem in there. Help me to understand you...

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Yes. Uncheck the Skip option. Highlight all of the podcasts in your newly created playlist and go under File (or right-click...I think on a PC?) and select Get Info. You can turn off the skip option there on all of the files at one time.
Yes...set up this way, if you're shuffling a music playlist, you won't get podcasts mixed in. It will just shuffle the individual playlist. If you just choose Shuffle Songs from the main menu, where it shuffles every file on the iPod, then you might get a podcast.
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i tried creating playlists(same as how i did for music, right click, new playlist, drag and drop files inside) via itunes and putting videos into it(different drama serials etc for easier viewing)...but the video playlists did not show up in my touch...can anyone advise?
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ok...thanks...what about continuous playback for videos?

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Either automatically or by allowing us to assign values to songs within playlists indicating how often we want to hear the particular song or how many times we want the song to be replayed before it is removed from the shuffle queue for a user specified amount of time.
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I have an older classic ipod, my daughter has an older nano. I got new laptop and have managed to sync my ipod and ipad with success, as well as move my library from old pc to new laptop. Now I am trying to update and sync my daughter's ipod. It says that it is synced but nothing changes. I believe I had set up two different libraries on the old pc, and so certain cds had been copied into her library. I can't find them in the earlier mentioned transfered library. That's not a big deal, as I can just use those cds to add them back in later (more work though). I've read older community posts on my issue, but any article links on how-to are too old, I guess. I like the idea of using just one library and creating playlists for each ipod to sync to, but cannot figure out how to do this. Also, do I need to restore my daughter's ipod to get the ball rolling? She's taken a couple of videos she likes and I'm not sure I want to lose it in the restore. Any advice greatly appreciated.

Hey puckaluck8,
Thanks for the question, and welcome to Apple Support Communities.
The following article provides different methods for managing multiple devices with one computer:
How to use multiple iPhone, iPad, or iPod devices with one computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1495
You mentioned syncing separate playlists, which is definitely a good method. The other option you may want to consider is called "Manually Syncing", which you can read about here:
iOS: How to transfer or sync content to your computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1296
Thanks,
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I have 47,000 tracks to add to iTunes and when I begin the process, it immediately creates a playlist for each album. I stop the import immediately and delete the 20 or so playlists that have been created, go back to File > Add to Library, select my folder, click Open and it does the same thing - it adds all of the tracks to my iTunes Music Library AND creates playlists for every collection of tracks it thinks is related!!!!! You can imagine how out-of-control this would be if I were to import my entire library!!
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You got the correct answer! I meant to click "Correct" answer to give you the points but I clicked "Helpful" instead because I'm new to the interface and I'm really tired.
That's what it was. I found the m3u files and moved them to my Playlist folder, then loaded up my library and ba-da-bing! My music is back. Thank you!
How can I give you the full "Correct Answer" points? Moderator??

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I want to burn 45 albums to disk tonight, however I don't want to have to create playlists for each one. Is their an easier way to burn all those albums without the hassle of creating playlists, i'm surprised I can't go into album view and press burn on each album that I wanted on disk.
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Thanks for the quick response,
I will just select the album I want to burn and press shift + CMD + N to create a new playlist from selection and burn it that way I guess.
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