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 >>> >>> ** 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 > > ** 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