Listen to Songs by Genre

Make a smart playlist for the genres you want and sync them to ipod.

In iTunes on your computer, make sure you have a Genre for the songs. On your iTouch, once in the Music program, there are 5 icons at the bottom (Playlists, Artists, Songs, Albums, More). Click on More. There you'll see Genres. Select the genre you want. At the top of the list, you'll see "All Albums", and once you click on that, "All Songs". Hit "Shuffle" at the top of the screen. If only one artist shows up, I would imagine it's because it's not set up properly somehow in your iTunes.

The Touch permits listening to music by genre. However, you may not see the choice to do so. Press the Music icon and select More (Bottom right portion of the screen.) This will list the other play options from those that automatically show-up on the bottom of the Music home page. If you want to alwayss see the genre option at the bottom of the page choose edit and slide the icon to the bottom.

tbond22 wrote:
In doing reserch I found out you can shuffle by genre, but only if you enter a space on the album title in your ITunes.

Are you sure? I've never needed to do that in order to play by genre.

Have you followed what Valbobal said?

On your iTouch, once in the Music program, there are 5 icons at the bottom (Playlists, Artists, Songs, Albums, More). _Click on More._ There you'll see Genres. Select it to see a list of genres and select the genre you want.

I do not have album titles nor do I want them.

What do you mean, none of your albums have the title in them? Even if this is the case, it makes no difference, genre is on the More menu by default. If it's not there, have you moved it? (You can, if you wish, move it to the bottom bar.)

Once in your chosen genre menu, the iPod will show a list of artists, and under that, a list of albums. At the top of that menu is *All Songs.* When you go into that menu, there will be a list of songs and at the top, a Shuffle option. Press that and the iPod will shuffle songs from the genre you have chosen.

Phil