Manually manage music but auto-sync one playlist?

Ok so basically, I'm trying to figure out if there is a way to manually manage my itunes library but automatcially sync one of my playlists. The reason being is that I have on artists that constantly changes (assorted singles) which is just a collection of different artists' singles. It would be nice to have itunes automatically sync that one playlist but allow me to maintain control of the rest of the library.
Otherwise, my only way to get around this is to create a folder that contains playlists for all the albums/artists I want to sync and have itunes autmotically sync everything that folder?????

It would be nice to have itunes automatically sync that one playlist but allow me to maintain control of the rest of the library.
Simple.
Uncheck Manually manage music and videos.
Select the Music tab.
Tick Sync music and Sync selected playlists.
Tick the playlist you want.
Drag the other music you want to the iDevice.

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Golf129 wrote:
As my music is growing larger, but my iPhone's memory isn't. I change to manually manage musics on the phone. When I change details of the song e.g. adding album artist or lyrics. iTunes doesn't sync it for me. Do I have to manually do this by myself like adding and deleting the old ones every time I make a change.
Just make the changes then add the song to the iPhone.
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