One great, cheap gift to give your friends is a playlist of different songs. You can create a playlist of songs from movies that you both love, or you can create a playlist of songs that reminds you of your friend. If you want to share your love of a certain genre with a friend who doesn’t know much about it, you can create a “best of” playlist for your friend, and you can also help your friends get to know new artists in this way.
In order to create and share a playlist, first figure out the theme of the playlist. You could make a love-song list for your girlfriend or a funny-song playlist for your best friend. The options are only limited by your imagination and the music you have access to. Put your list of songs together, being sure to pay attention to how they sound when they’re played in order.
Then, put the playlist on your iPod. At this point you’re probably thinking that the only way you can share this playlist now is if you let your friend listen to it on your own music device since iTunes doesn’t allow downloading of music from an iPod to a computer. However, all you have to do is make sure that you and your friend have software that allows you to do an iPod music transfer.
This software, which you can download from the Internet, allows you to synch your iPod with more than one computer. What’s more, the software also allows you to download music from your iPod to another computer. In this way, you can skip the whole process of burning your playlist to a CD and download the new list directly to your friend’s computer, where he or she can mess around with it or upload it to another iPod.