I had to trade my old ipod in cuz it froze completely and they sent me a new one. The last ipod automatically categorized the songs I rated as my faves into a file. All I ever did was rate the song 5 stars and it would pop up in that playlist. That isn't happening on my new ipod and I checked the settings and don't see a setting for it.

Can anyone help me to activate this feature?

I presume it's the "Genius" feature, found on the left hand side of your iTunes, under "Playlists". You should probably try activating said feature.

"Genius makes playlists from songs in your library that go great together."



Not sure if I'm right or not, but I guess it's worth a shot

Have you considered buying a Zune instead ?

BlueZebra said:

Silence, infidel!

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It's called a smart playlist. Go to File > New Smart Playlist and then set the criteria to Rating > Is > 5 Stars and make sure Live Updating is checked.

FuNkeNsteiN said:

I keed ... I'm faithfull to my iPod ... for now. If only for how it allows me to easily follow geeky podcasts :p

AlexdeParis said:

Thanks! I still have no idea how to really use the thing but I got it working to the way I know how to listen to my music so all is good I need to sit with an ipod expert sometime so they could show me how itunes is really supposed to work. I know I did things the retarded way but it works :nod;

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

You have to create the playlist first.
What you had was a preset playlist that added everything in a category.
All my Prince automatically goes into the 'Prince' playlist.

Yeah, do what AlexdeParis said . . . .
[Edited 2/9/09 20:48pm]