Ipod nano gen6, create/edit playlist

I have hundreds of songs and artists name( lots of songs come from my friends which don't even have artist names), etc. Everytime I want to create an on-the-go playlist on ipod gen6, I have to go through the "allsongs category" which made me really frustrated. I have create multiple folders, each of them contains playlists that I like, how can I make the folders(which contains several playlist) appear instead of only 5 categories(artist,songs,genres,composer, albums)
this kind of playlist(onthego) is very easily created with older ipod but it's hard with the new gen.

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On your iPod, go to settings-->shuffle and set it to Songs.
Now navigate to your playlist. (Music-->Playlists). Once the playlist is highlighted, click play. The iPod should now randomly choose songs from that playlist and play them.
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