Chapter 16. Creating, Configuring, and Using Playlists

INTHIS CHAPTER

• Learn why playlists might just be the best of iTunes' many outstanding features.

• Collect your favorite music in a standard playlist so you hear only the music you want to hear when you want to hear it.

• Change your playlists whenever the spirit moves you.

• Become an iTunes master by creating your own smart playlists to make iTunes choose music for you to listen to based on your criteria.

• Use iTunes' special playlists.

Of all the cool features that iTunes offers (and as you have seen, there are lots of cool features), this chapter's topicplaylistsjust might be the coolest of them all. Playlists enable you to listen to exactly the music you want to hear, when and how you want to hear it. Do you love a CD but hate a song or two on it? Fine, just set up a playlist without the offensive song. Wish that you could hear different songs from a variety of albums? No problem. Ever thought that it would be neat if you could pick a style of music and hear your favorites tunes in that style? How would you like it if the tunes you hear are selected for you automatically based on your preferences? With iTunes playlists, you can do all this and more.