Songs only in a playlist?

Is there any way to have songs only appear in a playlist and not in my library and my playlist? I have some Spanish audio CD's I wanna put on my iPod but I don't want them mixed in with my music and I'd prefer to have them in their own playlist so I can listen to them. Any help would be appreciated.

It has to be in the main library to show up on a playlist or go on your ipod, but you can keep those tracks out of the music section.
When you import those Spanish CDs you can select all the tracks, right-click > Get Info.
Say yes to changing multiple items. Go to the Options tab and set them to Audiobooks. That way they will not be marked as music. You can still make a playlist of them for you ipod.

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*I did a hard reset
*downloaded the new itunes
* unsynced and resynced the music
* i have "Manually manage music and videos" under the "Summary" in intunes
*i tired pressing the home and power button at the same time and nothing

Hi altsoax2010,
If you are not seeing some of your songs listed by artist, you may find the following article helpful:
Apple Support: I don't see some of my songs when browsing by artist on my iPod
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA23703
Regards,
- Brenden

Add songs only to playlist

Is there a way I can add songs only to a playlist and not to thye itunes library? I want to make a playlist for my mom,but I don't want her songs on while I am listening.
Will someone please help me?

If you put it in the library and then delete it, the title will still be in the playlist but it will simply have an ! at the front meaning iTunes cannot locate the song.
I want to make a playlist for my mom,but I don't want her songs on while I am listening
Do you mean that you have you music and your Mom's music in the library and you do not want to listen to her music?
Create a new playlist (File -> New playlist).
Drag the songs you like form the library to this new playlist.
Click on this playlist and press Play to play only the music on this playlist.
Do the same for your Mom's music.

Ever since the last download, I am unable to edit my playlists on itunes. When my phone is not plugged in, my playlists that are on my phone are not on itunes but my songs are. Only the default playlists show up. How can I get all of my playlists back?

I usually create and edit playlists on itunes and then sync my phone to update my phone. Ever since the last upgrade, I can't do this. When I open itunes, my playlists are not there, only the songs and the default playlists. If I plug my phone in and click on My Phone at the top of the screen, I can see my playlists but I can't edit them. How can I get my playlists that are on my phone back on my itunes?

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1296

How do I add multiple songs to an existing playlist from the (no longer called) Library? Highlighting multiple songs and clicking the "Add to" button will only add the with the little arrow, not all the highlighted ones!

How do I add multiple songs to an existing playlist from the (no longer called) Library? Highlighting multiple songs and clicking the "Add to" button will only add the one with the little arrow, not all the highlighted ones! I am using the "new" iTunes.

For the moment there isn't a way for us end-users to control what is "matched" or "uploaded." That is purely a result of Apple's server-side algorithms.
To re-add multiple songs at once simply highlight all the songs you want to re-add, then right-click (or Control+click) the list and choose "add to iCloud."

TS1702 i if use "search" in music on my ipod touch 5th gen the result just show only album and playlist but nothing song result.whats wrong with it?please help

i if use "search" in music on my ipod touch 5th gen the result just show only album and playlist but nothing song result.whats wrong with it?please help

The users guide says:
Spotlight searches the following:
Contacts—All content
Apps—Titles
Music—Names of songs, artists, and albums, and the titles of podcasts and videos
Podcasts—Titles
Videos—Titles
Audiobooks—Titles
Notes—Text of notes
Calendar (Events)—Event titles, invitees, locations, and notes
Mail—To, From, and Subject fields of all accounts (the text of messages isn’t searched)
Reminders—Titles
Messages—Names and text of messages
Try:
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Unsynce all music and resync
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup
- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.
- Make an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store.
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar

Getting to song to play ONLY on one playlist.

Is there any way that I can get a song to play ONLY on a certain playlist, and somehow exclude it from the main list of songs?
Me and my girlfriend have a very wide disparity in music tastes, and we share an iPod together. Is there a way that I could make it so that when I put a song on the iPod and she wants to shuffle songs, that mine wont get thrown into the mix?
Also, is it possible to shuffle song play while playing only from a playlist?
Thanks in advance.

Yes, you could do the exclude from shuffle, but that would exclude it from everyone's shuffle that uses the computer (unless you manually do it to your iPod library only)
The easiest thing to do would be to do the grouping as I listed, then make a Smart Playlist that you use as the main. The only thing you have the smartlist do is exclude those songs which you label.
Smartlists are shuffleable as well.
This way you just label the ones YOU don't want played, set a rule 1 time on the playlist (set it to live update) and everytime a new song is added that you don't want you add it to the grouping. And your playlist automatically updates!

Shuffle Playlist songs only

Hey I have an 80gb video, and i love it
but im dissapointed with apple for having very little instructions on how to use it (i've figured most of it out now) but i just made a playlist after four months and im a little mad. for one reason and that is because the songs dont shuffle, but then when i go into the settings and turn shuffle songs only on it shuffles the playlist but also all of my songs and albums (which is really stupid, there should be a shuffle playlist setting) unless there is something else i can do, help is appreciated

http://www.apple.com/support/ipod101/
Shuffle Songs from the main menu will shuffle everything.
If you select Settings -> Shuffle - songs, whatever you select will be shuffled.
If you do not want to shuffle a selection, you must set Settings -> Shuffle to Off.
There is no shuffle setting for playlist by playlist basis.

If I set up the ICloud, does that mean that all of my songs will be stored in Icloud? can I delete the library from my PC and only choose what playlists I want on PC?

If I set up the ICloud, does that mean that all of my songs will be stored in Icloud? can I delete the library from my PC and only choose what playlists I want on PC?

Thank you
I realize they are separate
I will do music match so that all of my songs are in ICloud
Do I need to keep the library on my PC or can I download whatever playlists I want stored on the device at that time.
Example: I have almost 1G of Christmas Music - because it is on my PC in my llibrary they sync to my ipod touch every time - i really want those stored somewhere else so they do not sync [or take space on my pc] with exception to one month per year.
I am thinking I can create space on my PC and Touch by storing songs on icloud that i do not listen to regularly; I am also thinking I can request songs by playlist to download to my touch or PC
Is that a clearer question or am I just confusing myself??

Song shows up in playlist on iTunes, but not on the iPod Touch

So I bought a song from iTunes on my iPod Touch, and so it shows up on the "Purchased" playlist, and I can listen to it. So, I sync up to my PC (or my wife's MacBook Pro, doesn't matter) and using iTunes, I add the song to a playlist of my current favorites. I then sync the iPod. In iTunes, it shows the song as part of the playlist, and shows that there are 24 songs in it. But when I unhook the iPod and look at that exact same playlist, the new song does not show up, and it says that there are 23 songs in the playlist.
I have already tried deleting the playlist, creating a whole new one, and I can put any song I want in there, except for this one. ??? Anyone heard of this before?

If the song is in iTunes, and it is in a playlist that you auto-sync your Touch to, then the only things that might cause this problem are:
1- Is this new song un-checked in iTunes? If your Touch is set to sync only checked items that would prevent it from syncing. If that's the case, just enable the checkmark next to the new song and re-sync.
2- Is this playlist a smart playlist that is forced to be limited in size? If so, there is a bug with the 3.1.x OS such that smart playlists that are limited in size will have different contents (and sorted differently) when you compare the playlist on iTunes vs. on the Touch. The solution in this case is to disable Live Updating in the smart playlist definition, then the two versions of the playlist will agree.
3- Is the new song tagged as "Skip when Shuffling"? If so, and if your Touch is in shuffle mode, then the song count in the playlist will not include songs that are designated to be skipped.
See if any of those three things are what is going on. If not, then perhaps you need to reset or restore your Touch, but I doubt that.

How can I change the order of the songs listed in a playlist?

How can I change the order of the songs listed in a playlist?

Hello Pokerplayer62,
In order to update the order of items in your playlists on the iPod Nano, you have to update them on the computer, and then sync the updated playlists to your device.
From the iPod Nano User guide here: http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_us/ipod_nano_features_guide.pdf
To set iTunes to update iPod nano automatically with selected playlists:
Open iTunes and select iPod nano in the Source list. Click the Options button and click Music.
Select “Automatically update selected playlists only.” Select the playlists you want.
All the best,
Sterling

I authorized and dled ITUNES to the new pc. Well i would like to know where is all my songs i purchased? I want to hear them on this pc, i bought them so where are they and how do i get them on here so i can buy new songs and make new playlists?

I authorized and dled ITUNES to the new pc. Well i would like to know where is all my songs i purchased? I want to hear them on this pc, i bought them so where are they and how do i get them on here so i can buy new songs and make new playlists?

They will only be where you put them. They do not magically appear in new places.
Have you copied them from your old computer to your new one?

Why I can only transfer 1 playlist at one time to iPhone 4?

Never had this issue before with previous iPhones.
Now using iPhone 4, latest iTunes and Windows 7 64bit. iPhone is running the latest iOS 5.1.1.
Let's say I have 10 playlists which I've created in iTunes. And I want to copy them to my iPhone. So what I'd usually do is drag the playlist to the iPhone 4 icon. And the songs will start copying to the iPhone.I would then drag the other 9 playlists and ALL the songs would copy over.
BUT now... when I start to drag the second playlist over, the songs from the first.... STOP transferring and the songs from the second playlist then starts transferring. So out of 15 songs from playlist 1, maybe I now get only 5....
Any idea what could be wrong???

Oh... BTW, I tried doing what I usually do to an iPod and it works as expected.
Just not with this iPhone 4.

How can I save my place in my library when moving between songs, albums, artists, genres, playlists, store, ect?

I dont remember this being a problem in iTunes 10.
Say I'm in album view. I find an album I want to play. I click on the track. Cool.
Then I decide "Oh I need to see if this album is on a playlist I have."
I switch to playlist view to check out the playlist.
Then when I want to move back to album view, I've lost my place and have to use the "go to" scrolldown menu.
Why can't I switch back and forth between playlists and albums and have iTunes save my place?
What would solve this problem is the little "go to" icon that was on Itunes 10. I hate the scrollbar. Take me to the place I was before! I shouldn't have to think about using this stupid scrollbar. It should essentially be as quick as a "back" button on a web browser, but it's not!

This is my #1 biggest complaint/annoyance with iTunes 11. I tried searching for posts about this issue a dozen times but never found any, no one seems to know what I'm talking about when I describe this issue to them. Haha, so I'm glad I'm not the only one.
But like you said, it's so freakin' annoying that when you're looking at like a Jack Johnson song in your music library, and then click on a playlist to see if a particular Jack Johnson song is in that playlist, when you click back over to your music library you're all the way back up at the top at the 'A' artists and not where you left off. There have been two updates to iTunes 11 and they've yet to bring that feature back. I just sent them a feedback request regarding the issue, so hopefully they'll become aware of it.

How to sync selected songs only

Greetings,
Is it possible to sync only some songs or folders from iTune without loosing what is already there in iPhone?

Same way you did with the previous versions of iTunes.
To view the iPod in iTunes, Ctrl S to show the sidebar.
Create a playlist, add songs and sync that playlist.
Or drag songs to the iPod in iTunes.

Songs only in a playlist?

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