Repeating and shuffling a song list
Creating, clearing, and saving on-the-go playlists Changing the volume level
Bookmarking Audible books
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our iPod is lightweight enough to carry everywhere but also heavy with thousands of songs, representing a cross-section of the history of rock music — a veritable museum in your hands. Or perhaps you have every pop-ular song that made the charts in the last few years or every jazz note played between 1960 and 1966. You spent a few minutes creating playlists in iTunes that barely scratch the surface of the huge library you have in your hands.Now how do you switch songs or playlists while maintaining your jogging pace or avoiding wrecks on the freeway?
After you add music to your iPod, you can locate and play that music easily, browsing by artist and album, and even by composer. Selecting a playlist is simplicity itself, and if you don’t have playlists from iTunes (or you don’t want to hear those playlists), you can create a temporary On-The-Go playlist.
This chapter shows you how to do all these things.
Locating Songs
With so many songs on your iPod, finding a particular one can be hard (like finding a needle in a haystack, or trying to find “Needle in a Haystack” by the Velvelettes in the Motown catalog) — even though you can narrow your search by genre, and also search by artist, composer, album, or playlist.
By artist
Your iPod organizes music by artist, and within each artist by album. Follow these steps to locate a song by artist and then album:
1. Select the Browse item from the iPod main menu.
Scroll the main menu until Browse is highlighted, and then press the Select button. The Browse menu appears.
2. Select the Artists item.
The Artists item is at the top of the Browse menu and should already be highlighted; if not, scroll the menu until Artists is highlighted, and then press the Select button. The Artists menu appears.
To browse by genre, select the Genres item, and then select a genre from the Genres menu to get a reduced list of artists that have songs in that genre (in alphabetical order by artist name).
3. Select an artist from the Artists menu.
The artists’ names are listed in alphabetical order by first word. Note:Any leading Theis ignored so that The Beatlesappears where Beatleswould be in the list. Scroll the Artists menu until the artist name (such as Radiohead or Bowie, David) is highlighted, and then press the Select button. The artist’s menu of albums appears. For example, the Radiohead menu in our iPod includes the selections All, OK Computer,and The Bends;the Bowie, David menu includes All, Heroes, Ziggy Stardust,and many more).
4. Select the All item or the name of an album from the artist’s menu.
The All item is at the top of the artist’s menu and should already be high-lighted; you can press the Select button to select it or scroll until an album name is highlighted and then press the Select button. Note:Albums are listed in alphabetical order based on the first word. A leading Aor The is notignored, so the album The Basement Tapesis listed afterthe album Stage Frightin The Band’s menu. A song list appears after you select a choice.
5. Select the song from the list.
The songs in the album list are in album order (the order they appear on the album); in the All list, songs are listed in album order for each album.
Scroll up or down the list to highlight the song.
By album
Follow these steps to locate a song by album directly:
1. Select the Browse item from the iPod main menu.
Scroll the main menu until Browse is highlighted, and then press the Select button. The Browse menu appears.
2. Select the Albums item.
Scroll the Browse menu until Albums is highlighted, and then press the Select button. The Albums menu appears.
Select the Composers item to choose a composer, and then select a com-poser from the Comcom-posers menu to get a list of songs for that comcom-poser.
3. Select an album from the Albums menu.
The albums are listed in alphabetical order (without any reference to artist, which might make identification difficult). The order is by first word (a leading A, An,or Theis not ignored, so the album The Natch’l Bluesis listed after Taj’s Bluesin the T section rather than the N section).
Scroll the Albums menu until the album name is highlighted and then press the Select button. A song list appears.
4. Select the song from the list.
The songs in the album list are in the order in which they appear on the album. Scroll the list to highlight the song name and press the Select button. The artist name and song name appear.
By playlist
When you update your iPod automatically from your entire iTunes library, all of your playlists in iTunes are copied to the iPod. You can choose to update your iPod with only specified playlists, as we describe in Chapter 11.
Playlists make playing a selection of songs or albums in a specific order easy.
The playlist plays from the first song selected to the end of the playlist.
Follow these steps to locate a song by playlist on your iPod:
1. Select the Playlists item from the iPod main menu.
The Playlists item is at the top of the main menu and might already be highlighted. If not, scroll the main menu until Playlists is highlighted, and then press the Select button. The Playlists menu appears.
2. Select a playlist.
The playlists are listed in alphabetical order. Scroll the Playlists menu to highlight the playlist name, and then press the Select button. A list of songs in the playlist appears.
3. Select the song from the list.
The songs in the playlist are in playlist order(the order defined for the play-list in iTunes). Scroll up or down the play-list to highlight the song you want.