Hi Jackie -The only thing that might be an issue in what you are doing, is in copying the songs from the pen in to the newly named play list. It might be that you have to copy them in to your ITunes library first, then name your new play list, and then select the tracks from the library you want in the play list. This is how I have always done it, and my play lists work just fine, in all the ways I would expect them too, that is, in track order, or shuffled if that is selected, with no unwanted track repeats. After all, a play list only points to the tracks in the library, it doesn't actually physically contain the tracks.
I hope that's all it is, cos I can't think of anything else <smile> I wish you good luck with it -
Andy----- Original Message ----- From: "Jackie Cairns" <jackie.cairnsplace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 11:48 AM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Working with playlists on an iPod Touch
Hi Andy Thanks for your Email, and apologies for taking time to reply, I've been enthralled by a book I am reading! What I do, and bear in mind I am referring to the Mac here, is to copy whatever I want in my playlist onto a pen. All my music is stored on myWindows PC, and backed up on numerous drives. So, hooking the pen up to the Mac, I open iTunes, choose the New Playlist button, name it, then proceed tocopy the songs I have on my pen into the new playlist folder I've created. I then go to the table which shows me what I have, and ensure the new playlist is checked. With the iPod Touch connected, I apply the transfer, and it plays me a little tune once the music has gone over. On the Touchitself, I see all my songs in the playlist name I have created. I can play them, but they seem to repeat rather than go onto the next track, yet everyalbum is numbered, or "Jackie's Jamboree" of songs listed alphabetically. Yet I can't seem to get the iPod Touch to play them one after another. On the Mac, I see the playlists, I see the availability of space on the Touch that is left, everything else is present and correct. On the Touch, I've been into settings and found some for Music. In there,I've found everything seems to be ok, except I'm not sure whether the Groupby Artist and Album - or something along those lines - should be turned on or off, it was on by default. Turning it off doesn't seem to make any difference.Sorry for the long posting, but I hope this gives you an idea of what I havedone, and where I've probably gone wrong? Finally, I would say that everything is in my iTunes library, but I preferto have iTunes set to handle music manually. God I hate that program with apassion! (smile). Kind Regards, Jackie Cairns -----Original Message-----From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf OfANDY COLLINS Sent: 09 March 2012 11:44 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Working with playlists on an iPod Touch Hi Jackie - Is it that only the first track plays, and then repeats itself just once? Can you see all the other tracks in the play list on the Touch? If so, and you select one of them and play it, does it play twice and then nothing?I have play lists on the Touch, and have no issues with them. I've just hada play to see if I can replicate your experience, and don't seem able too. As I think you are probably aware, the order in which tracks appear in alist is determined by how they are tagged. I have had to amend some tags toget things to stay in the original track order. This is usually about the source file, and where it came from originally, [off a shop bought CD, or other music source.] I do wonder if your problem might be in where the playlist was originally created, as you said you copied them from a Mac to the Touch. When workingwith ITunes, I make the playlist from within the programme, and then add thefiles to it, and then when I hook up the Touch, it synchs automatically. Frustrating isn't it when things like this don't make any sense - Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jackie Cairns" <jackie.cairnsplace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "'BCAB Discussion List'" <bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 10:04 AM Subject: [access-uk] Working with playlists on an iPod TouchApologies for cross-posting, but I am after some help please from some of you with knowledge of playlists on the iPod Touch. I have now created and copied 83 playlists from the Mac onto my iPod Touch, having "kind of" mastered iTunes, (grrr). But I can't seem to get eachplaylist on the iPod Touch to play in the order in which they should. For example, many of them are actual albums, so are numbered from one to 10 or12, or however many tracks there are. I also have some playlists where I have made up a selection of tracks, and would expect these to go in alphabetical order as they aren't numbered. But each time I choose a playlist, I find the first track, it plays, thenrepeats itself. It doesn't seem to go onto the next track of the album orsequence, so I am obviously doing something wrong, or missing an aspect. Could someone please tell me how I get a playlist to allow me to play the album or selection of titles from start to finish without repeating the same track and not continuing with the next. Many thanks, and apologies for being so ignorant here, but I can't fathom it out. Kind Regards, Jackie Cairns ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq
** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq