Checked or unchecked songs in shuffle

Is there any way that i can play songs in shuffle without having to check them? I have only the songs i want on my ipod checked but i want to shuffle through all the songs on my itunes when im at my computer. Is there a way i can do this?

You need to put the songs you want on your iPod in their own playlist(s). Then have iTunes sync just those playlists to your iPod (in Preferences).

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Checking or unchecking songs on itunes

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone knows how to select/check or uncheck songs in itunes. When I sync my ipod, sometimes I only want to update certain songs, and going through and checking/unchecking all of the songs is literally impossible and too time consuming.
Thanks for any suggestions!
Jen

It's easier to manage your music using playlists instead of checking/uncheckng songs.
Create playlists and add/delete from those playlists.
Select the iPod in iTunes, click on the Music tab.
Tick Sync music and Sync selected playlists.

How to mass check or uncheck songs to be synchronized?

Holiday songs are a good example of songs some may wish to have on their iPod part of the year. I use the check/uncheck feature to have them loaded on the iPod only when I want them there. By doing this, I don't have to listen to Christmas music when going into shuffle mode. QUESTION: is there a way to mass check or uncheck a group of songs instead of doing each song one at a time? My searching has come up empty on this point.

Hello Meffley,
And welcome to Apple Discussions!
Not sure if there is way to accomplish what you are asking.
However, I can tell you that you can set these Christmas songs to "Skip when shuffling" by enabling this option for these tracks in iTunes. Just highlight all the songs you wish to have skipped when shuffling (to highlight multiple songs at once, hold down the Control key), right->click on them and choose "Get Info" from the Menu. When the window pops up, head over to the Info tab. Make sure there is a tick mark next to "Skip when shuffling." Lastly, sync the updated changes to your iPod.
When you wish to hear these songs in Shuffle Mode, go ahead and remove the tick mark and again sync the updated changes to your iPod.
B-rock

Can I Play "Checked " and "Unchecked" Songs on PC Automatically???

I want to Sync only checked songs from my Libray to my Ipod, so I don't use up all it's capacity. But, when I play songs from my PC, only the "checked" songs play automatically. It skips over the "unchecked" songs in any list. Is there a way to fix this so that all my songs on my PC will play together, or do songs need to be checked to play automatically in any list???

*do songs need to be checked to play automatically in any list???*
Yes they do. Using unchecking to manage an iPod is an option (and works fine when you are working with a small number of specialised tracks such as Christmas songs) but only if you can live with the other things unchecking does:
Unchecked songs will be skipped when playing songs from the library or a selection. They will only play when individually clicked on.
Smart Playlists have an option that unchecked songs won't appear.
Unchecked songs will not be burned to CD.
Genius will not use the songs that are unchecked.
Another method you can use to auto-sync your iPod with iTunes is "Sync Music - selected Playlists". Syncing selected playlists is just like syncing your whole library only on a smaller scale and more "selectively". This is particularly useful when your library is larger than the capacity of your iPod. When your iPod is is set to sync selected playlists it automatically picks up any changes you made to that playlist in iTunes since you last connected. Anything you added to the playlist will be added to the iPod, anything you deleted from it will be deleted from the iPod. In other words the iTunes playlist and the iPod are kept "in sync".
Open iTunes and create a playlist to update your iPod from, call it -My iPod for example (the dash will position it at the top of the playlists in Sources). Drag whatever content you want to have into the playlist. Now connect your iPod and when it appears in the Source list click on the iPod icon to bring up the preference tabs in the main pane. Go to the Music tab and choose Sync Music and the Selected playlists radio button. Choose the playlist you just made from the selection and click Apply. You can also sync from any existing playlists by choosing the same setting, you just need to make sure that the size of the playlists don't exceed the capacity of your iPod: Syncing Music to iPod

ITunes 11.1 is playing unchecked songs on shuffle. How do I remedy this?

I am trying to simply play my entire library on shuffle, omitting the unchecked songs. iTunes is still playing the ucheked songs. How do I remedy this? Thanks, Redd

Funny, I'm having my library (radio stations) shuffle every so often, minutes. Shuffle is turned off. - since update.
I don't want it to shuffle, but it does. Trade you?
Some stations will just quit unexpectedly also. - can't figure out how to stop it. - tried trouble shooting, even with an Apple care tech. have to report back again. annoying.

Checking and Unchecking Songs

I have an iPod mini (4GB), but my music library is much greater than that. Therfore, I have unchecked a lot of songs. However, I do not know how much space the checked songs take up (the ones that go on my iPod). Is there a way to make a smart playlist with just checked songs, so that I can add songs without having to connect my iPod and update it multiple times to get it inside the 4GB limit?
To make it simple, is there a way I can see how much room the checked songs take up?

select (highlight) them in iTunes. then right-click (or ctrl-click) and choose +uncheck selection+ from the pop-up menu.
JGG

Can't check or uncheck songs when importing CD

I put in a CD and go to choose which songs I want to import and the check boxes are no longer there. I can't even go "select all" and "check all boxes". There are no boxes to check. How can I fix this? Thanks.

Ive had the same problem when im listening to my Ipod Touch i can hardly hear anything at full volume and i have multiple sets of head phones but what i have found to be effective is to almost put the earphones in this works best when listening to any You tube video to practice this with and it will become twice as loud. the dashes on you earphones plug into the jack should just barely be in.hope this helps.

ITunes - Sort by Checked/Unchecked songs

I don't actually spend a lot of time in iTunes, just load up the party shuffle and let it go, however, I'm wondering if I'm being dense.
I can't find any way to sort or find my songs by their "Checked" status. Does this feature exist?
Dual G5 2.0 Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.6)

That feature doesn't exist, but you can create a smart playlist to find only checked or unchecked songs.
I recently posted it in another topic:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=2081712#2081712
Hope this helps.
M

How to check uncheck songs in itunes

how do I key stroke to check and uncheck songs in itunes

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.

How do I make a playlist play UNchecked songs?

When creating a new smart playlist there's a checkbox option called "Match only checked items".
This means you can make a playlist that will include unchecked items.
Now how do I get them to play?
In particular I use the Genre field in conjunction with the Grouping field to identify Christmas songs. After all a Christmas song can be Rock, Funk, Soul, Pop, Folk, etc. whatever. I keep these songs unchecked so that they don't turn up in my smart playlists the rest of the year when I'm making a playlist of e.g. R&B.
However, I also have a smart playlist called Christmas that collects all these unchecked songs. Now how do I get it to play those songs?
Thanks.

qda wrote:
I dug up my old apple account from years back just to log in here to tell Grant Greene:
You dug up an old apple account from years ago to respond to Grant Greene's 13 month old post?
I've been asking this question for years, because SOMETIMES I just make a playlist of a mix of checked and unchecked songs so that I can listen to ALL the songs in that playlist without checking them, ..
and valiant66 wrote,
"Besides, the checkmarks were put there to control what syncs with your iPod, not what you listen to."
which is incorrect. The option Sync only checked songs was put there for for additional control when syncing, not the only control
As noted, unchecking songs does more than simply not sync them.
And even when unchecked, you need to select the option to not sync checked songs.

Crossfade Playback & Unchecked Songs

The crossfade playback functionality works quite well and does what it is supposed to do except when the playlist contains both checked and unchecked songs. There's no crossfade at all when an unchecked song is encountered before moving on to the next checked song (I hope it's more or less clear what I mean).
Is there any way to get around this?
iMac G4 Flat Panel Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Rather than checking and unchecking tracks as your primary method of controlling what goes on the iPod, instead check your entire library then use playlists and smart playlists to group your stuff and you can then set up the iPod to ONLY sync playlists you pick.
For example, you might make a Smart Playlist limited to xx number of songs or xx gigs or whatever you want and the playlist is the stuff "Least Recently Played". Check live updating so this list is constantly updated. Now pick this as the playlist synced to your iPod. Each time you listen to stuff in iTunes or the iPod those items become the MOST recently played and will fall out of that list and be replaced with something new. Each time you sync your iPod, that list will refresh and you will get a constantly changing selection of stuff.
Of just create a normal (not Smart) playlist, pick that one to sync to your iPod and just manually add and delete stuff from it, keeping it under whatever space you have on the iPod. This gives you what you have now, but you can leave everything in your library checked.
Patrick

IPod nano issue with shuffle function--includes unchecked songs

When I use "shuffle" on my Nano, it is including songs that I have deselected from my music library in iTunes (i.e. songs I don't want loaded to my Nano).
Anyone know why this is happening? I thought unchecked songs weren't transferred to the device, yet I can play them on it?
Is this a glitch or known error?
Thanks for any help you can provide....

Check the following:
- Is the iPod full?
- Is the iPod set to update automatically?
- Is the iPods update behavior restricted to a certain number of playlists?
- Rightclick the iPod in the sourcelist, hit update.
- If nothing else works, try reformatting the iPod with the latest Updater

For each song in my iTunes Library just before the name of the song there is a check box. What is the effect of checking or unchecking this box?

For each song in my iTunes Library just before the name of the song there is a check box. What is the effect of checking or unchecking this box?
Thanks

Unchecked items will not play unless specifically clicked on. They will not be included on shuffle and will not be synced to ipods.

Can unchecked songs in the library remain checked in a playlist?

I am creating a playlist for my son but I don't want his songs to be checked in my library. I just want them checked in his playlist. I play my library on shuffle and I don't want his songs to sync into my library. Can someone please help me manage his songs separately without creating a whole new account for him?

Unfortunately you won't be able to uncheck a song in one location and have it remained checked in another. That's just not how iTunes operates.
However, I don't see your issue: are you making sure his songs don't sync to your iPod/other device? or do you simply just not want those songs to play when you are shuffling your entire library?
If a song is unchecked, by default it won't get played when you're shuffling or in a playlist. So you don't need to worry about that.
The only issue that would arise (and maybe this is what you are referring to?) is if you have a playlist of unchecked songs, whenever you play one on that playlist, it won't automatically go to the next one.
If you want to work around this, try checking all of the songs on that playlist, but select "Get Info" for all of them and select "Skip When Shuffling" on the options tab. If I'm not mistaken, this would therefore allow you to play all of his songs continuously in the playlist, but whenever you do a full library shuffle, they will not get played. If you want to manage with an iPod though, like any checked items they will also go to your device, unless you designate your iPod to not take from that playlist.
Hope this helps
If you connect an iPod/other device, if the setting "Sync only checked items" is marked, any unchecked items will not go to that device.

HT204406 I am using iTunes Match and want to "uncheck" songs so that I can use my shuffle and not hear every song in my itunes.

Can I "uncheck" songs in my iTunes while using iTunes Match? I want to use my shuffle and not hear every song in my itunes. I use a MacBook Pro, iphone 4S and an ipad.

I know of no way to do this.
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