IPOD needs playlist folders

I like how iTunes 5 lets you create folders where you can store a variety of playlists/smart playlists within the folder.... but on your ipod it just jumbles all these playlists together in alphabetical order. It's nice they added this organiztion to iTunes, but why not on the iPod????

Glad to see I'm not the only one unhappy. I just updated my iTunes and iPod. SOOOOO disappointed that the wonderful feature of playlist folders was not part of iPod's update. What a waste! I added new playlist into folders thinking that would be a great way to access the tons of songs on iPod....but no. How could this have been over looked...unless of course it is not possible to add to the standard iPod? Maybe this is only a nano feature.

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If I remember correctly, earlier versions of iTunes did not display the folder structure of an iPod. The current version (8.2.1(6) in my case) does display any folder structure stored on the iPod. That is better.
However, I still have one complaint. In my iTunes library I use one Playlist Folder for each composer (mainly, but also for artists and collections). And in the folders I have playlists for each piece of music. That works fine for me.
My problem is that, when I connect my iPod to my Mac and it is displayed in iTunes, all the Playlist Folders are displayed in the open state by default, i.e. showing all the playlists they contain. In my opinion that defeats the purpose of the folders, i.e. to give a top-down overview of the library. With the folders open I see as many entries (or actually more) than if there were no folders but only playlists. More sensible would be to display the folders closed by default. Then I could just open the folder(s) for the composer(s) I am specifically interested in.
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I have my music library structured in iTunes with Playlist Folders (for Composers) which contain Playlists (for Works). Now I am having trouble duplicating this structure on my iPod.
Just after Playlist Folders were introduced in iTunes, the iPod (mine is a 160GB Classic) didn't support Folders at all. But in some later version suddenly it did. Great! Everything seemed fine. But now, when I try to copy a Playlist Folder by Drag and Drop to the iPod, on the iPod it ends up just as a Playlist (not a Folder), at least as seen by iTunes (v8.2.1 (6)). Actually on the iPod itself, the folder structure (under Composers) is displayed but iTunes shows the entry just as a Playlist. I've tried disconnecting the iPod and restarting iTunes but that didn't help.
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Many thanks again for the extensive answer.
rockmyplimsoul wrote:
Once you have the playlist sorted correctly in iTunes, then use the "Copy to play order" command I mentioned and then re-sync the iPod. The sort order on the playlist on the iPod should then match the order in iTunes. If not, then I suspect you're doing something wrong.
I did use the "Copy to play order" command as you described. The problem I have is that, although the play orders all look fine when seen from iTunes (both for the music library and when looking at the iPod), on the iPod itself the order is not correct. Quite likely I'm doing something wrong but I haven't been able to discover what
rockmyplimsoul wrote:
Do you mean "Structure" as in playlist folder/plalist structure, or do you mean "Sort order"? If you are auto-syncing the iPod then the playlist folder/playlist hierarchy should transfer exactly as it is in iTunes.
Understanding "Structure" may be part of the problem. Maybe I'm trying to do something that is impossible. I have built my private structure in iTunes, using Playlist Folders for composers and then Playlists (within the Folder) for each work of that composer, e.g.
-Playlist Folder: Wagner
--Playlist: Wagner - Das Rheingold
----Track 1
----Track 2
--Playlist: Wagner - Götterdämmerung
----Track 1
etc.
That works fine (for me) in iTunes.
On the iPod, though, you get something similar via Composers but I don't really believe that the iPod is using my structure. Rather I think it finds the composers via the Composer tag in the "songs"/tracks and then makes groupings depending on the album. That works out similar to my structure, for I define albums for each work. However, I'm not really convinced that my playlists as such are used at all on the iPod, even after syncing (as evidenced in the example where I had two playlists in iTunes with the same album name and they were merged when seen on the iPod).
That aside, it still doesn't explain why the play order is sometimes (but not always) mucked up when looked at directly on the iPod, when the same work's play order looks fine when the iPod's contents are displayed by iTunes.
At the moment I remain confused and puzzled. I won't now be able to follow the problem further till after the weekend but maybe next week I'll try deleting the playlists which are causing me trouble (with the play order) and redefine them, to see whether the confused play order happens again.

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Hello all,
I have a 16gb 4g iPod Nano. My iTunes library is 29gb and so therefore I cannot copy all of my music onto the Nano. I purchased the Nano for use in the gym, while I have another iPod to store my music library. I need to be able to maintain the folder structure of my dozens of playlists when I copy them onto the iPod. At the moment I cannot get this to work...
When I drag and drop a playlist folder onto the iPod it turns automatically into simply a flat playlist, encompassing all the songs from all the playlists within the folder. If I go onto the Music tab on the iPod I can get it to copy all the folders, but that is at the expense of music not on playlists on the iPod.
Also, I have tried going to File > New Playlist Folder while selected on the iPod, however, the folder just appears on the iTunes window rather than directly onto the iPod.
So if anyone would be able to help me I would be very appreciative!
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For ripping audiobooks --- use case, the Harry Potter series --- I create playlists for each CD, then put the playlists for each book in playlist folders.
This works (and looks) fine on the iTunes library side, but when I load the playlist folders onto the device (iPod 7gen, pink...) only the first folder looks right (folder icon) and browses correctly in iTunes (expands and collapses). iTunes displays the second and subsequent folders as if they were playlists and doesn't let me expand them for browsing.
On the ipod the icon is also wrong --- once again, looks like a playlist --- but I can browse the folder correctly using the touch interface.
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* iPod 7gen (pink), software 1.0.2
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Code:
<pre class="alt2" style="margin:0px; padding:3px; border:1px inset; width:640px; height:34px; overflow:auto">/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchSe rvices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user</pre>
Then press return. Wait until terminal returns to the command line. Quit Terminal. After that, log out and back in or restart. Let us know
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What I've realized recently (although I suspect it's been going on the entire time) is that when I click on the folder it does not contain nearly enough songs. In other words, there are many songs in the contained playlists that do not appear when I click on the containing folder.
I first noticed in iTunes 9, but the problem persists into the newest version of iTunes.

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IPod needs to be reformated every "second use"

Hey
I am German so pleas excuse my spelling and gramma ;-(
I just reinstaled my Computer a cupple of days ago, so it´s clean, before i reinstaled it everything was working just fine.
So here is what happens, i plug in my USB conection in iPod and USB slot, it takes some time untill i get toled that my iPod needs to get reformated for use with this computer, i do reformate it, it works, i put the ~1600 i have on it, disconect it properly - and the next time i conect it we are back to waiting a while and having to reformate it...
I can´t imagin that is is healthy for the iPod to hammer it with 1600 songs every second day wen i want to put a cupple of songs or a playlist on it (aside from it being anyoing no matter how bad it is for the hardware...)
It would be great if someone could help me fix this.
I am not a profesional so it might be issues with wrong instalation of the USB ports (software wise, i did not change any hardware) but i think i got al the drivers on the computer properly.

It is telling me that i need to reformate it for use on this computer so i am pritty darn shure i can´t just put the files on it like i would wen it would work like it suposed to work (and did work sinc i bought it in september)
Again. brok down so everyone hopfully gets what i am fighting with
1. I conect the iPod
2. the i pod tells me it needs to be reformated for use on this computer.
3. i reformate it.
4. it works just fine, i can put all the songs on it like i should be able to.
5. the next time i conect my iPod to the VERY SAME computer there is minutes of it only being the USB harddrive, than i get a mesage that i need to reformate it for use on this computer (wich, yes, like formating usualy dos, deletes all files)
help would be awsome becaus after 3 days of this i feel like having a creative jukebox would be better, and that should be telling you something sigh

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