Can you suggest a way to keep changing the music on my iPhone?

Asked by Lightlyseared (35050

) March 1st, 2009 from iPhone

My iTunes library is about cough 100Gb. The iPhone is a 16Gb model but let’s say that 8Gb of music is enough at any one time. At the moment I just transfer over stuff manually which means I end up listening to the same stuff which seems a bit of a waste as there’s probably loads of good stuff that I’d like but just never get exposed too.

So what I was thinking was to use smart play lists to pick stuff that I hadn’t listened to while still ensuring that I didn’t end up with 10 hours of rubbish.

Any ideas or sugestions on how I could do this?

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You can include a smart play list of any size you want and make one of the selection criteria random. that way the songs wont always be the same. it will change every time you open iTunes.

Bri_L (12219

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I do exactly what @Bri_L does. I have about 120GB of music, and an 8GB iPhone, and a 2GB iPod Shuffle. I make smart playlists—one has stuff I’ve added in the past month, one has stuff I have heard at least twice but haven’t rated, one has stuff I have rated 3-stars or above (because I use 1 star to mean ‘technical problems with this track’ and 2 stars to mean ‘heard it, don’t want to hear it again’). When I sync my iPod shuffle or my phone, iTunes automatically chooses random stuff for all those playlists.

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Personally, I like to use the genius feature to create playlists to have available on the go. I like how you can keep refreshing until you have a list you like and save it.

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