You'll be deleting lots of Playlists now

My browser only has artist and title - yours shows genre too. I haven't yet found how to add that - is there a browser options box somewhere?

Calhoun, I'll just try using it for a few days - it's probably not nearly as big a deal as I'm thinking, I just had an expectation going in that this would be simpler, so I set up iTunes one way as I was ripping hundreds of albums prior to buying an iPod, only to find out the interface isn't the same.

I also thought the transfer worked both ways, so I could move songs back onto my computer, but I guess not. I guess I should keep back-ups of anything I don't have on CD, just in case anything happens...

Ok, let me see if I'm understanding you. To organize your music for iTunes, you went and made a bunch of folders and subfolders (say, artist, and inside that, a folder for each album) and put them in iTunes music library folder. You want your iPod to have the same organizational structure.

If that's correct, then I have some good news and some bad news for you. The bad news is that you didn't need to spend all of that time organizing, because iTunes does it for you. You can just drag-and-drop files onto iTunes, and if they are labeled properly or if it can recognize the album from the database, it will take care of all of that.

The good news is, the iPod does the same thing.

"Playlists" are not the same as subfolders. On the left hand side of the screen is a list of playlists. If you did all of this album/artist stuff with folders WITHIN iTunes, you reaaaaallly wasted your time. You can basically delete all of that and make new playlists if you like (something that iTunes WON'T do for you, like, say, "songs for sunny happy super awesome days"). But if you just want them organized by artist/album, it's done for you.

You can actually creat playlists on your iPod. They're called On-The-Go playlists. You go to each song you want on the playlist, and press the select button (whatever that is for your generation of iPod. . . dunno. . . I have an old one) and hold it down until the song title blinks a couple of times. Then you go back to the "playlists" menu, and select On-the-Go.

I hope that's helpful.

If your browser isn't showing click the eye on the left top
You go to the artist column and select one and then go to the album column (only the albums bu the artist you selected will show) and select the one you want

And then just play

Don't you have the browser in iTunes active?

PANDURITO said:

Hmm, but now when I try to play an album that way, the moment I go do something else it iTunes it only plays to the end of the current song - it doesn't continue to play the whole album...