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Creating Playlists On Your iPod

TMO Quick Tip - Creating Playlists On Your iPod

by , 7:30 AM EST, March 5th, 2007

Making Playlists in iTunes for your iPod is easy enough, but what about creating Playlists on your iPod? No problem. Here's how:

  • Navigate to a song, Playlist title, album, or artist name on your iPod.
  • Press and hold the Click Wheel center button until the highlighted item flashes to add the item to your On-the-Go Playlist.

Press and hold the center button to add tracks to your On-The-Go Playlist.

To play the tracks in your iPod's On-The-Go Playlist, navigate to Music > Playlists > On-The-Go. Be sure to either play a track in your On-The-Go Playlist within 36 hours of creating it, otherwise the entire Playlist may be deleted. Alternately, you can navigate to Music > Playlists > On-The-Go > Save Playlist to save your new Playlist.


Save and Clear options are in the On-The-Go Playlist.

Clearing your On-The-Go Playlist is easy, too. Just navigate to Music > Playlists > On-The-Go > Clear Playlist.

You can create On-The-Go Playlists only on iPods with displays. If you have a first or second generation iPod shuffle, you are out of luck.


Jeff Gamet is TMO's Morning Editor and Reviews Editor. He lectures, teaches and speaks on Mac OS X and design-related topics, and is the author of The Designer's Guide to Mac OS X from Peachpit Press.

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Close Name:thepoeticjuan Posts: 1059 Joined: 14 Mar 2003
Subject: iPod Playlist

Thanks for the hot tip!

Close Name:Guest
Subject: help!

sooo you say to delete or clear the on the go playlish just to go to music then playlists then on the go then clear playlist...but there is no "clearplaylist" on any of my on the go's which...creates a problem because i cannot get them off of there! what do i do?

Close Name:Guest
Subject: on-the-go list

ok i have a 30gb video ipod and i have like2129 songs and i have like 3 on-the-go list for some reason. and i want to know how do i delete all the songs on the 3lists without putting it into my computer? if i put it into my computer all my songs go away and i have to dowloand them all over again please help me someone.

Close Name:fzelders Posts: 1 Joined: 26 Dec 2007
Subject: Creating Playlists on your iPod touch/iPhone

And how can this be done on the iPhone/iPod touch?

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