on the go playlists in iTunes?

[Fahrvergnuugen]

The third gen iPods have on the go playlists, which is a great feature in my opinion. To my knowledge, iTunes doesn't have this feature. Doesn't it seem like an obvious thing to leave out?

 

[adambyte]

Uh... I don't have a 3rd generation iPod (1st generation, I'm an old fart), but from what I hear, you can do this in iTunes. Here's what I do... Make a new playlist, and add a song to it. Open the playlist you just created, and start playing the song from there. Now, you can go back to your library, and start dragging more songs to the other playlist, and they'll play after the first song is done playing. isn't this the same thing? sort of putting songs in the que? cue? however the hell the British people spell that?

 

[Fahrvergnuugen]

here is the idea:

you are playing a song in your library or on an existing playlist and suddenly another song comes to mind that you want to hear next.
on a new iPod, you would find the song and gold down the select button (i think) to add it to your "on the go" playlist so it will be played next.

Ideally, you should be able to right click on any song in your library and tell iTunes to play that song next. This would work great for albums that have a song split onto two tracks (a lot of albums are like this).

I typically have iTunes set to randomize, but when it randomly picks "Don't Stop The Rock" I expect to hear "Get Up On It Like This" next

 

[adambyte]

Ah... no... guess iTunes doesn't have that particular ability. I sit enlightened.

 

[mr. k]

But If you have a on the go playlist on your iPod when you sync it with iTunes, the on the go playlist is reversed into a playlist called on the go in iTunes.