Syncing ITunes Across Multiple Devices...

Hi everyone,
I have had a MacBook for about four years now, and have always enjoyed having my entire music library in iTunes and on an iPod. Recently, my iPod broke -- and around the same time, I got an iPad and iPhone5 (both 16GB). So here's my question: It's not feasible to put my entire music library on the iPad and iPhone because of space considerations. So I'm wondering what you guys think is the best way to ensure that I have the same sampling of songs from my library on the iPad and iPhone (aside from just manually uploading the same songs to each device). I'm sure there are simple answers to this question, but I'm new to the iPad and iPhone, so keeping the two devices synced is all new to me. Any suggestions people have would be great. Thanks.

Create a playlist with the songs you want to listen to. When you connect each device, select the "music" tab and specify that you want it to sync to just the songs in that playlist.
If you let iTunes decide what songs to download, (I think) it will have created a playlist and already done this. You can choose to either start with this, or make a new playlist. You can sync the same playlist to all your devices.
Another option is Music Match. For $25/year, you can have access to your entire library over the network from all your devices and other computers. That was how I solved the same problem you have.

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