Apple M9804B/A manual About Playlists, About Smart Playlists, Creating Playlists on Your Computer

About Playlists

Using iTunes, you can organize songs into playlists. For example, you can create a playlist with songs to listen to while exercising or with songs for a particular mood.

You can create as many playlists as you like using any of the songs in your computer’s music library. Putting a song in a playlist doesn’t remove it from the library.

When you connect and update iPod mini, the playlists are transferred to iPod mini. To browse through playlists, select Music > Playlists on iPod mini.

About Smart Playlists

Using iTunes, you can automatically create customized Smart Playlists from the songs in your library. You can create a Smart Playlist that includes only certain genres of music, songs by certain artists, or songs that match particular criteria. For example, you could create a playlist that’s no more than 3 gigabytes (GB) in size and includes only songs you have rated 3 stars or higher (see “Rating Songs” on page 18).

After you create a Smart Playlist, any songs on iPod mini that meet the Smart Playlist’s criteria are automatically added to the Smart Playlist.

Creating Playlists on Your Computer

To create a playlist:

nIn iTunes, click the Add (+) button and type a name for the playlist, then drag songs from the library or another playlist to the new playlist.

To create a Smart Playlist:

nIn iTunes, choose File > New Smart Playlist and choose the criteria for your playlist. Any songs from your library that match the criteria you choose are automatically added to the playlist.

Using iPod mini

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