While the iTunes Genius feature allows you to create playlists and discover new music in iTunes, you can also use Genius on your iPhone, iPhone 3G, or iPod touch, to create playlists right on your mobile device.
Though you can’t use Genius to discover new music on the iPhone (yet – I wouldn’t be surprised if that feature crops up someday), you can tap into its smarts to make great-sounding playlists. Here’s how:
Difficulty: Easy
Time Required: 1 minute
Here's How:
- Begin by tapping on the iPod icon on your iPhone/iPod touch home screen.
- In the iPod program, tap the Playlists icon at bottom left (it may be in a different place if you moved your icons around. If so, find the playlists button where you put it).
- The first option in Playlists is Genius (it has the Genius option next to it). Tap it.
- To create a playlist, Genius needs you to select a song to build the playlists around. Browse the music on your device and select a song.
- This immediately creates a Genius playlists of 25 songs based on that song (unlike on the desktop, there’s no way to make a Genius playlist more than 25 songs long on the iPhone).
- Once the playlist is created, can listen to it or refresh it to get a new set of songs based on the first one.
- If you love the playlist, tap save in the top right. The Genius playlist will be saved in your playlists screen with the name of the song you built the playlist around and the Genius icon next to it. You can edit the name of playlist once you’ve synced the playlist to iTunes.
- Once the playlist is saved, you can tap the Edit button in the top right to refresh the playlist or delete it from the iPhone/iPod touch.
