[access-uk] Re: Working with playlists on an iPod Touch
- From: "Jackie Cairns" <jackie.cairnsplace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:39:10 -0000
I'll give it a try Andy. I wouldn't want to play them like that, but I can
see where you might be coming from.
Kind Regards,
Jackie Cairns
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
ANDY COLLINS
Sent: 12 March 2012 12:30
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Working with playlists on an iPod Touch
Hi Jackie - What happens if you select a play list, and then tap the shuffle
button, do the tracks then play randomly ok? -
Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jackie Cairns" <jackie.cairnsplace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 11:53 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Working with playlists on an iPod Touch
> Thanks Andy, I'll keep plodding, but I think the stuff is in my iTunes
> library. The annoying thing about it is that I see all the playlists,
> check
> them before synchronising with my Touch, and find all the songs in the
> relevant lists on the device itself. But getting them to play once you
> start an album is the odd bit. Because my joints are so stiff now, I use
> my
> treadmill every day to get moving, and I like to listen to my iPod while
> walking to focus on music rather than the pain and stiffness in my body.
> But it isn't easy when you are holding onto the handles of the treadmill
> to
> have to coax the bloody iPod to go to the next track instead of repeating
> it. Interestingly, if I choose Songs instead of Playlists, they do play
> one
> after another, but then I ask myself why I created playlists if they don't
> do as I ask?
>
> Oh well, I'll figure it out somehow, eventually, (smiles).
>
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Jackie Cairns
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of
> ANDY COLLINS
> Sent: 11 March 2012 18:17
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: Working with playlists on an iPod Touch
>
> 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 my
>> Windows 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
>> to
>> copy 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 Touch
>> itself, 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
>> every
>> album 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
>> Group
>> by 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
>> have
>> done, and where I've probably gone wrong?
>>
>> Finally, I would say that everything is in my iTunes library, but I
>> prefer
>> to have iTunes set to handle music manually. God I hate that program
>> with
>
>> a
>> passion! (smile).
>>
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>>
>> Jackie Cairns
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
>> Of
>> ANDY 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
>> had
>> a 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 a
>> list is determined by how they are tagged. I have had to amend some tags
>> to
>> get 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
>> working
>> with ITunes, I make the playlist from within the programme, and then add
>> the
>> files 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 Touch
>>
>>
>>> Apologies 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 each
>>> playlist 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
>>> or
>>> 12, 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,
>>> then
>>> repeats itself. It doesn't seem to go onto the next track of the album
>>> or
>>> sequence, 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
>>>
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