Absolute Beginner's Guide to iPod and iTunes

In This Chapter

• Learn why playlists might just be the best of iTunes' many outstanding features.

• Collect your favorite music in a standard playlist so you hear only the music you want to hear when you want to hear it.

• Change your playlists whenever the spirit moves you.

• Become an iTunes master by creating your own smart playlists to make iTunes choose music for you to listen to based on your criteria.

• Use the Party Shuffle to keep your iTunes experience fresh and interesting.

Of all the cool features iTunes offers (and as you have seen, there lots of cool features), this chapter's topic playlists just might be the coolest of them all. Playlists enable you to listen to exactly the music you want to hear, when and how you want to hear it. Do you love a CD but hate a song or two on it? Fine, just set up a playlist without the offensive song. Wish you could hear different songs from a variety of albums? No problem. Ever thought it would be neat if you could pick a style of music and hear your favorites tunes in that style? What about if the tunes you hear are selected for you automatically based on your preferences? With iTunes playlists, you can do all this and more.