Android: If you like the intelligence of something like Pandora, but want it to use music you already know and have, free app Jukefox is like the iTunes Genius of Android, shuffling tracks together by genre.
You can easily control what gets synced onto your iPod (or iPhone) by using playlists or excluding specific tracks, but the former isn’t comprehensive and the latter stops you playing the full contents of your iTunes library on your computer. Blogger Scott Buckley details a clever use of playlists that lets you blacklist specific tracks and sync everything else to your iPod.
Windows Phone 7 (and Windows/Mac): Just because you’re on Microsoft’s mobile platform doesn’t mean you need to leave iTunes behind. This nifty app controls any iTunes library wirelessly, giving you power over playlists, volume levels, and song/album searching.
Have you ever accidentally deleted an iTunes playlist or two and figured it was gone forever? Here’s how you might be able to get those missing playlists back.
Matching your song playlist to your running distance and style is a task you don’t want to botch up. Lifehacker reader samc352 shares some great tips on automatically and manually generating Beats Per Minute (BPM) playlists.