Transfer to/from new nano

As a new user, this might be a old question, buut if you don't ask etc.etc............
I have a 2gb Nano, which will hold approx 400 songs. I want to be able to load, for example 400 Rock songs if i'm on a long drive, or maybe 400 easy listening if i'm relaxing on holiday ( Ah........holidays)
Is it possible to have a folder on my Pc called "rock", one called "easy" and others for different music types or artists, all which would fill my Ipod.
Then I could upload whichever one I want before going out.
Problems is that I need too many tracks to have them all on the ipod at the same time.
Any ideas?
Thanks

Yes you can do that thru iTUnes and creating playlist, you would want a Smart playlist. A smart playlist "Auto updates" Itsself based on the rules you set for it. If you creat a playlist for rock, any new songs you add to iTUnes with the genre of rock will be automaticly added to the playlist
To create a smart playlist, goto file>New Smart Playlist. Here is where you can set the rules. For a rock only playlist you would select "genre" "is" or "Contains" "rock". Now if you pick "is" it will only list songs labled rock, not songs labled rock/alternitive or whatever, would have to be rock and no other words. now if you pick "Contains" this will list all songs witht he word "Rock" in its genre field be there other words or not. After creating the smartplaylist you can always edit the rules by rightclicking the list and hitting edit.
Now rightclick the nano in iTUnes, hit "iPod Options". this will open the ipod preferences. You will see 3 ways to update iPod, Manual auto update all, auto update select playlist, you will choose auto update selected playlist and then pick the playlist you want on it.

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