I want to play my songs in a specific order

I just bought a Nano, and put on it a playlist of songs to play in a specific order. But when I play the playlist, the songs are shuffled. Is there a way to play them in the order I want them in?

Check Settings > Shuffle and make sure it is off.

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I agree it was not all communicated real well, but in your case it will work out. You missed the program where you could have upgraded 100 tracks for 30 cents each (=$30) but now you can do it via Match (=$25). It works pretty simply, per this document:
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http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/five_rs/nano5gen/
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This article has some troubleshooting steps for songs that skip: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3217.

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I used to be able to choose a genre, select all songs, shuffle, and get a nice random collection of music. A couple months back, I updated my operating system (huge mistake), and now I have problems. I cannot get a random shuffle. I can choose the genre, choose all songs, and I get an alphabetical list. If I choose shuffle, it just moves to a different place in the same alphabetical list to start off. No matter what I do, I get the same list in the same order. I can only change where in the list I start. And this is driving me crazy. I am still manually culling my list as sometimes I have the same song from two albums, and this causes them to play back to back since they have the same name. Or two versions of the same song.
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If you choose a single album to play it will play the songs in the proper order, no problem. However, if you wish to listen to all songs of a certain band, it plays them in alphabetical order. It doesn't even group the songs within their appropriate albums. So as someone above has mentioned, if you wish to listen to the entire Pink Floyd Discography in order of their release, well... you better get to work making a very long, very large playlist, because thats the only way I have found to do it.
This is absolutely rediculous to think that anyone would want to listen to songs in alphabetical order. What if you have a few live albums along with a couple "Best of's" along with the actual original albums... So when I listen to the songs alphabetically, I get to hear the same song 3, 4, maybe 5 times in a row? That's BRILLIANT!
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Run a script when mpd wants to play a song

Hi,
I have built a power strip I can control through USB. Now I have teach my computer how to turn on or off a plug , I would like that it turns on automatically my speakers when my computer play a song and turns it off when it stops.
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#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <stdio.h>
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sleep(1);
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return (client == NULL);
static struct mpd_connection * connect(const char * host, unsigned port)
struct mpd_connection * client = NULL;
for(;;) {
client = mpd_connection_new(host, port, 2000);
if(check_error(client)) {
continue;
break;
return client;
void cancel_signal(int signal)
if(signal == SIGINT) {
not_ctrlc_pressed = false;
int main(int argc, char const *argv[])
if (argc < 3) {
printf("Usage: prog <hostname> <port>");
return EXIT_FAILURE;
int previous_sond_id = -1;
enum mpd_state prev_state = MPD_STATE_UNKNOWN;
struct mpd_connection * client = connect(argv[1], strtol(argv[2], NULL, 10));
signal(SIGINT, cancel_signal);
while(not_ctrlc_pressed) {
enum mpd_idle events = mpd_run_idle (client);
if(check_error(client)) {
client = connect(argv[1], strtol(argv[2], NULL, 10));
continue;
if (events & MPD_IDLE_PLAYER) {
struct mpd_status * status = mpd_run_status(client);
if (status != NULL) {
enum mpd_state play_state = mpd_status_get_state(status);
int current_song_id = mpd_status_get_song_id(status);
switch(play_state) {
case MPD_STATE_PLAY:
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if (argc > 3)
system(argv[3]);
break;
case MPD_STATE_UNKNOWN:
case MPD_STATE_PAUSE:
case MPD_STATE_STOP:
previous_sond_id = -1;
if (argc > 4)
system(argv[4]);
break;
prev_state = play_state;
if(client != NULL) {
mpd_connection_free(client);
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
(also as gist here: https://gist.github.com/sahib/6718139)
Edit: Added error handling // do not consume 100% cpu when connection fails.
Last edited by SahibBommelig (2013-09-26 18:07:56)

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