Ios7 music playlist & shuffle

It seems I can no longer shuffle songs within a genre nor can I create a playlist by selecting a genre in my music app. Am I missing something or is Apple trying to make listening to music the most tedious thing ever now?
Also, how do I get iOS 6 back?

Agreed! After using Spotify for a long time I go and buy some songs from the iTunes store on my iPhone, in an effort to create a playlist to listen to. Then I find out you can't add songs from the "bought" playlist to a new one any more. I have to manually search through my whole library to find these new songs? Seriously. No wonder people are dropping itunes and going the spotify route en masse with this kind of basic functionality missing. If you could only add a song to a playlist when you are listening to the song it would be a bit better, but oh no. Come on Apple you can do better than this!
Also for some weird reason the Music App adds the new songs to the bottom of the "Bought" playlist, when before it added them to the top. So now I have the oldest ever bought songs right next to the newly purchased ones. Not a huge issue but ticks me off and is a symptom of lack of caring and lack of polish

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it's a question how your itunes settings are
in preferences ->advanced
uncheck the copy files to itunes media folder when adding to library
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Do all the songs in your playlist have a check in the box to the left of each song's name? Songs without a check will be ignored unless specifically selected to play. If you don't see the checkboxes, go to iTunes > Preferences > General and check "Show list checkboxes".
To check or uncheck all boxes on a Mac with one click, hold down the Command (cmd) key and click on one of the checkboxes with the mouse. You can use this in a library, a playlist or in search results.
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Music App shuffle option doesn't work. I have already reset the iPad, removed all my music and resynched. Shuffle button is selectable, but just plays the songs in alphabetical order, even if I try to skip to another song or start anywhere on my playlist.
So far this version of music player for apple product is disappointing, the iTunes app before never had these issues. There are some serious bugs in this Music app, Apple your comback success was largely because of iPods and iTunes, so music is a big part of Apple users use, please fix this.

Hello,
Yes I believe this is a known bug in Firefox OS v1.0. [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=883781 Bug 883781].
The bug is marked as resolved in Firefox OS v1.1. Once ZTE update the Open to v1.1 the bug will be fixed on your device.
v1.1 of Firefox OS was officially released yesterday. Hopefully it won't be too long before it reaches the ZTE Open. See here for more details:
[https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2013/10/09/firefox-os-update-1-1-adds-new-features-performance-improvements-and-additional-language-support/ Firefox OS Update (1.1)]
I hope that helps.

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Gentlemen,
just got the new Apple TV, which in general works great. Only two problems concerning the music playlists via iTunes:
Problem 1:
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Somewhere here in the forums somebody wrote that at least problem 2 is an error that was fixed with the latest update of Apple TV. But yesterday after installation, Apple TV already updated itself - so it looks like it does not work for me.
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Kind regards
Alex

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Hello & welcome to the community!
I'd reccommend you to contact support here so they can help you. They can restore playlists to previous states.
If you receive an automated email telling you to check the help section or the community, you need to reply back to it, even if it's from a no-reply address.
Support usually answers within 24-48 hours.
Hope this helps! ♫

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