iPod Playlists/Orginization

[katiesue]

Looking for some opinions on iPod organization. I got my best friend an iPod for her 40th birthday. We’ve known each other since we were 4 so I’m putting on lots of old photos plus all the different songs etc we used to listen to. My question is I’m trying to figure out how to best organize all the songs I’m putting on there so it’s easy to find stuff. I was thinking of doing it by era – 70’s, early 80’s, late 80’s, 90’s. Mostly they are single tracks from different artists. There are a few artists where I’ll put on whole albums. Since I don’t have an iPod of my own just looking to see how everyone else organizes theirs. She’s pretty un-techno so I’m trying to make it as easy as possible.

And I have one more question. You can’t copy stuff off of your iPod onto another computer right? So I’m going to need to burn off the photos etc onto cd and send those as well as she won’t be able to view them except on the iPod otherwise. Correct?