On the Go playlist- help
Somehow I keep creating on the go playlists. I would like to know how it is I am doing it and how do I delete them from my nano? Would really appreciate
some help as the online manual is NOT helpful at all... thanks a ton
This is what I think may be happening why you are seeing so many on-the-go playlists. If there is an on-the-go playlist on the iPod and you connect it to the computer, iTunes will sync it from the iPod and name it 'on-the-go 1'. Once it does this, in the iTunes, source pane, you will see this playlist show up under your iPod as well as under Playlists. Once you dsconnect the iPod and then look under Playlists on the iPod, you will see a playlist named 'On-the-go 1'.
Now, if you inadvertantly created another on-the-go playlist on the iPod, the song would now show up under the playlist named 'On-the-go' Then once you connected the iPod to the computer again, iTunes would copy it to yet another playlist and call it 'On-the'go 2'.
As far as deleting playlists directly from the iPod; the only on-the-go playlist you can clear right from the iPod is the one just named "On-the-go". You would go into this playlist and scroll to the bottom where you would see the 'Clear Playlist' option to clear the playlist. If you do this before connecting to iTunes, then it won't get syncd to iTunes.
You would need to do what Deggie mentions in her first post to delete the extra ones.
I hope this helps clear things up some more and I am so sorry if I confused you any.
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On the go playlists-help please
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windows Windows XP ProWhen your iPod is connected, click on the little black triangle next to the iPod so it points downwards in order to show your playlists.
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thats tough man, yeah exchanging it is the best option. But why do people always leave a message saying" i'll probably just by an ipod" and it's usually followed by, "even though i don't like apple or ipod" . I mean fine, if u feel like giving up on the zen micro thats fine, i personally don't care if you're going to buy an ipod. for god sakes ipod isn't even the next alternati've mp3 players, theres plenty. Are u just trying to get the creative people saying "oh man we lost another one to ipod" cuz i'm sure they don't lose sleep over u wanting to buy an ipod instead of a zen. *done ranting*
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My PC computer was wiped (virus) including itunes. How do I transfer the many playlists and music on my ipod to the new re-installed itunes?? Ipod is synced to old itunes. I have all original music files on external hard drive. Please help?
New itunes is trying to wipe the ipod. But have many many playlists (many hours making) which I want to save. Any help would be appreciated.If you want to just extract the playlists from your iPod, plug it in iTunes. When it appears under devices, right->click on it and choose Export Playlists. Save them to a location such as your desktop and them import them into your library once you have copied and imported all of your music back into it.
See this older post from another forum member Zevoneer covering the different methods and software available to assist you with the task of copying content from your iPod back to your PC and into iTunes.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2452022?start=0&tstart=0
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SusanFrom Here http://support.apple.com/kb/HE37
I have multiple Apple IDs. Is there a way for me to merge them into a single Apple ID?
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Microphoto Playlist Help? (On the go playlis
Hi everyone, i've had my Microphoto since November of last year and i have just realized that making a playlist on this thing is more complicated then anything...
First off,
if you have no playlists it says to "save as playlist" on now playing, so then it adds one song to a new playlist.. nice, but when trying to get another song on that playlist, it is deemed impossible for me.. i tried playign the song, going to the now playing screen but theres no add to existing playlist... but there is a "add to selected" option, i've clicked this many times and nothing happens, what does this button do!
Is there an easy way to make a playlist where i can just scroll through my songs push the menu button and choose add to playlist or anything that isn't so complicated.. i just want to make it so when i sleep and i can play only slow songs, or when i wanna rock out i want only rock songs, and i know you can choose by genre, but my genres aren't exactly organized very well..
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Call it a hunch but I think the exact same walkthrough would work for the Zen MicroPhoto.
To put it simply you CANNOT alter a playlist once you have saved it with the ZMP.
You CAN however add multiple songs, albums, artists or even entire genres to your selection list and THEN save it as a playlist. This will work fine as long as you realize that once you saved the playlist you cannot add or remove songs UNLESS you load the playlist, ADD/REMOVE songs (in a linear order, you cannot re-order the songs or add a song in the middle of the selection list) to the selection list and after you've done what you need OVERWRITE the playlist to replace the old one.
Hope that helped.
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Help why cant i see my on the go playlists on the COMP?
When i make a playlist on the ipod and i go to load it to the computer it doesnt show up. only the lists that i originally compiled on the computer show up.
i searched here and it looks like people have this problem but there are a couple who claim to be able to see their on the go lists on the comp.
any help would be great. thanks
cYou need to have your iPod set to update automatically with iTunes. Then your On-The-Go Playlists will be copied to iTunes automatically and will show up in the list of playlists.
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Help with On-the-Go Playlists and sync w/iTunes!
Hi I have an iPod Mini and whenever I have an On-The-Go playlist on my iPod, saved or not, and then sync it with my computer, the songs change, for example lets say I have Green Day's "Holiday" in an On-The-Go playlist, when I sync it with my computer, the song is now Vertical Horizon's "Best I Ever Had (Grey Sky Morning). If you have any idea what's causing this, please tell me! Thank You!
P.S. I have iTunes version 4.9 and iPod Mini version 1.4. I'm almost positive these are up to date.i'm confused. you CAN clear the content of you on-the-go playlist on your ipod. just hit the clear button.
you can't have more than one on-the-go playlist though, and if you want to save it, you need to do this by syncing to itunes. -
Can I get help with on the go playlists?
Am I supposed to be able to clear on the go playlists within my ipod touch? I asked someone at the Geek Squad and I was told "no". Re-Syncing was the only way to remove these?
i'm confused. you CAN clear the content of you on-the-go playlist on your ipod. just hit the clear button.
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I've tried deleting them on my iphone or ipad, but to delete one takes about 10-15 seconds and it would take me about a month to do it this way. I tried deleting them from itunes on my PC but it is even worse doing it that way, it just freezes and since the names are all the same I can't even tell if there being deleted.
I have tried selecting more then one of the same playlist in itunes but it doesnt work.
Has anyone else ran into anything like this? I know it might sound kind of minor but I used my playlist all the time and now I'm scared to even click on them because it just starts this long, annoying waiting game.
Help!See this thread...
tt2 -
I don't seem to have the genius playlist option on my iPod touch 5th generation-what to I do???
I didn't jailbreak my ipod or download any pirated stuff. I actually only found out that my ipod should have the genius playlist option after reading a review on it. But when I checked under playlists in my music app, only the 'purchased' playlist is showing. What do I do to get the genius playlist?????
Hi prefdave,
I apologize, I'm a bit unclear on the exact nature of your question. If you are talking about Genius playlists or Genius Mixes and syncing them to your iPod Touch, you may find the following articles helpful:
iPhone and iPod: Understanding Genius Mixes
iTunes 11 for Mac: Use Genius Shuffle, Genius playlists, or Genius Mixes
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Where is the iPod playlist in iTunes?
Hello dear members,
I have a problem with my iTunes, could someone kindly help me please? My iPod is old. It's the 20GB black and white one from a long time ago. Recently, I bought a new laptop with Windows Vista on it, and I got iTunes version 7. It detects my iPod, and I can put songs on it, but I just don't know where the playlist is! The library playlist is there, but where is the iPod one when I plug it in? It used to show up when I had my old laptop with an old version of iTunes. When I click my ipod, it only has four options: Summary, Music, Podcasts, Contacts. No playlist. Please help!
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Is there a way to filter out TV shows when looking at the "purchased" playlist?
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You can go about this in a couple of different ways depending on what you are wanting out of it.
First you can highlight everything but the TV Shows in the Purchased playlist and add to them to a playlist.
"Create a playlist
Choose File > New > Playlist.
Type a name for the playlist.
To add items, drag them to the playlist on the right side of the iTunes window.
When you’re finished adding items, click Done."
From: Create a playlist
https://help.apple.com/itunes/mac/11.0/help/index.html?localePath=English.lproj# itns2943
Or you can create a new smart playlist with criteria to grab all your Purchased content, and set the criteria to exclude the TV Shows.
Create a Smart Playlist
Choose File > New > Smart Playlist.
Specify your rules.
To add another set of rules, hold down the Option key and click the Nest button. (When you hold down the Option key, the Add button changes to the Nest button.)
From: Create a Smart Playlist
https://help.apple.com/itunes/mac/11.0/help/index.html?localePath=English.lproj# itns3001
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Sterling -
i have a windows 7 laptop, and my itunes account wont log in, it is logged in on internet explorer on the website but when i come to log in on the itunes software on the laptop it comes up with error (-51) i defo have the right password, help!
fighter19lisa wrote:
that only makes it say its synced, when its not.
No, it does not. It transfers purchases from the iDevice to the computer. The computer must be authorized for the Apple ID that the content was acquired with.
fighter19lisa wrote:
my playlists wont show up on the phone.
Are they selected to sync? Is Manually Manage content on the device selected?
fighter19lisa wrote:
i had to change my password for my aol account again and i still cannot get my email on my phone to even work
What does that have to do with syncing content to the device? FYI, nothing.
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