The one thing I love about mp3 players is that you can just stick it on random and it’s like having your own jukebox. But what about when you want to play only certain songs? Or play only those certain songs on random?
Well, that’s when you need a playlist. Amarok does it’s own playlists, but that’s to create a playlist of songs that are on your hard drive. This tutorial is on how to create a playlist for your iPod using the songs that are on your iPod.
First things first (I’m assuming you already have songs on your iPod and you’ve used Amarok to do this) connect your iPod to the PC (it should auto-mount, most new distros recognise iPods) and load up Amarok. Click the DEVICES tab (down the left side of the screen) then click the CONNECT button at the top left of the window:
You should now see a list of all the songs, and albums, that are on your iPod. At the top of that list are two red folders, Podcasts and Playlists.
I’ve read tutorials that say you should right click on songs/albums and add them to a playlist, while the options are there to do that, it showed nothing on my iPod. After much searching, and trial and error, I found that dragging and dropping is what worked for me. So, first of all, lets create a new playlist.
Right clck on Playlists and choose ‘Create Playlist’:
And give your playlist a name, I’ll make one for AC/DC.
There it is, but it’s empty. If the playlist had songs in it, it would have that little + symbol beside it, like my Metallica playlist has. Let’s put some songs in there.
To add songs, simply open out your artists and albums (by clicking the + symbols beside them) and drag the song titles up to the playlist.
All I did was drag ‘Rock N’ Roll Train’ up, on to ACDC, and let go. Keep doing that to add songs. If I click the + symbol beside ACDC, I can see what’s in that playlist so far.
TIP: Holding down the Ctrl key lets you pick several songs to drag up in one go.
But what if I want them to play in a different order? Simply drag them arounf within the ACDC playlist.
To keep your playlist on your iPod, click the DISCONNECT button (top left)
And to be extra safe, right click on the iPod (on your desktop, I’m using Ubuntu 9.04) and EJECT it.
Done!
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#1 by Emmanuel at June 27th, 2009
Wow, that’s pretty cool. I own an iPod touch. I’m not pretty sure if I can sync it with anything other than iTunes. I don’t particularly like iTunes at all. Perhaps I should get a classic as my next iPod. They are much simpler to manage. Then, I can go sync it with Ubuntu. That would be pretty sweet.
I have one question though. You can’t just create a playlist in Amarok and then just Sync it? I’m just curious. That’s what I’m used to.
#2 by Ronnie at June 27th, 2009
From what I can tell, you have to create the playlist with your iPod connected and only using the songs that are on the iPod. I don’t think Amarok (or any other audio app) can sync stuff (easily) with the newer iPods.
The iPod Classic is really good, it’s got plenty of space and is pretty cheap. I use it with nothing else but Amarok. For music, podcasts etc etc.
#3 by Emmanuel at July 11th, 2009
Sorry for the late reply.
You have convinced me. I will have to look into the iPod classic more seriously next time I buy an iPod. I had the 5G Video iPod before, and when I switch to the iPod touch, I gained a lot of features, but it gets a little bit crashy at times. I really miss the iPod classic.
Thanks for the post. I will reference it when if I get a classic soon!
#4 by Hardik Ruparel at October 29th, 2009
Hey. I have an Ipod Classic 80 GB 6th Gen ( I guess ) and whenever I connect it to Ubuntu 9.04 , it gets disconnected within a second and shows ‘OK to Disconnect’ on the iPod screen and nothing happens on Ubuntu.. Please help !1