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Old January 28th, 2006, 12:07 PM
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Exclamation itune help or itune alternative?

sorry, one more question. I am really unused to itunes.
In my pc, on musicmatch, i can scroll through my music library, and just click on any song i want to hear, and it will automatically be placed next in line on the current playlist. so this way i can set up the next 20 or 40 songs or whatever. in itunes it just plays songs in the order of the library or i have to drag everything to a new playlist first. can i set it up to respond like the musicmatch? or can i istall musicmatch on my mac? (i'd rather not not, musicmatch kind of stinks otherwise)
the smart list looks interesting, but i don't think that it accomodates how i listen to my music. i jump around through genres and artists. and i have a very diverse library.
can anyone help me? i am so unfamiliar with the itunes interface.
I probably am missing something, because it is otherwise a very intuitive program.

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Old January 28th, 2006, 01:19 PM
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is this q tooo stoopid or something

is there some reason that no one will answer this question?
does everyone else just listen to their music in alphabetical order?
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Old January 28th, 2006, 01:24 PM
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You just asked the question. Give it some time.
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AFAIK, there's no way to do that in iTunes. Write to Apple that you request this as a feature. Kind of: On-the-go playlist for iTunes or something. I guess it's just that you're used to this feature from the other app, but iTunes never really thought of working this way... There are, of course, tons of other ways to listen to your music in iTunes. (Smart playlists are really fun, btw.)
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Old January 28th, 2006, 03:27 PM
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Create a playlist and just drag the songs over in the order you want to hear them.
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There is a work-around. Create a playlist. Add your first song to it. Then, double click it in your new playlist. Now, go back to your library and add things to the new playlist as you like.

Sorry. It's not exactly the same, but it's a workaround that will get the improvised-playlist kind of behavior you're looking for.
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Or use Party shuffle, that is very random and doesn't come out in alphabetical order
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... which would _kinda_ be the *exact* opposite of what the user wants in the first place, sirstaunch.
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