Creating and Using an iPod On-The-Go Playlist

Working with playlists that you create in iTunes is very useful, but you can also create a single playlist on the iPod and listen to that playlist as much as you’d like. This enables you to create a playlist when you are away from your computer in order to listen to a specific collection of music. To add a song to your On-The-Go playlist, view a list, such as the list of songs on an album, on which the song is listed. Highlight the song you want to add and hold the Select button down until the highlighting on the song flashes. Continue adding songs using the same process until you have selected a group of songs.

To see the contents of your On-The-Go playlist, choose Main menu, Playlists, On-The-Go. You will see the contents of the On-The-Go playlist that you have created. You can play this playlist just like any other playlist on your iPod.

If you want to clear the On-The-Go playlist, choose Main menu, Playlists, On-The-Go, Clear Playlist, Clear Playlist (no, that isn’t a mistake, you choose this command twice, but each is on a different screen). All the songs that were in the playlist will be removed, and it will become empty again. (The songs that were in that playlist are not removed from your iPod; the playlist is just cleared of those songs.)