Itunes won't shuffle

Just recently, itunes will not shuffle the songs in my library. Shuffle is checked, but when I click on play, one song plays, then it stops. Any held would be appreciated.

don't use this much and forgot I burned a cd last time and unchecked most songs
Rather than check/uncheck songs, just create a new playlist with the songs you want to burn, then delete the playlist after you are done.

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I installed Mavericks yesterday. Now iTunes won't shuffle.

I installed Mavericks on my iMac yesterday. Now I find that iTunes won't shuffle and will keep repeating a song until I stop it.

To confirm, you've downloaded and installed Mavericks, and not just downloaded Mavericks, right?
If you have installed Mavericks, have you tried updating to load the current iTunes 12 software, to see if that might resolve this?
I'd probably also try using Disk Utility.app (Applications > Utilities) to repair the disk permissions, and also to check the volume for errors, though it's not at all clear that would help here.
If all that fails, see if Console.app (Applications > Utilities) shows any messages relevant to iTunes, if you launch that and then try the (failing) iTunes launch.

Automator, iTunes won't shuffle first song

I have a remote computer running iTunes playing a shuffled playlist. I wrote an Automator task to reshuffle the playlist and start it over again. The Workflow is simple:
Get Specified iTunes Items (for a playlist with one blank song)
Play iTunes Playlist
Get Specified iTunes Items (with the desired playlist)
Play iTunes Playlist (with Shuffle)
I found that I need to play another playlist in order for the desired playlist to be reshuffled. Otherwise, it picks up where it left off. So the first half of the workflow does that.
Here's the curious thing, the playlist gets shuffled for all but the first song which is always the same! If I do it manually in iTunes, it shuffles fine. Using automator, the first song stays the same no matter how many times I run the shuffle automator.
If I restart iTunes or even if I play a few other playlists manually, it shuffles once, then has the same first song problem for the subsequent runs.
Any ideas?

Is it a smart playlist?
If it is, you could try:
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=reshufflesmart
Or you could just set that playlist as a "source" in party shuffle. And just have automator play iTunes Playlist "Party Shuffle".

ITunes Jukebox won't shuffle through songs

Remember in the good ol' days, when you could just click the spacebar at the iTunes library page, and it would shuffle through your songs and play something random for you? And you could click > and it'd shuffle again?
Well, my iTunes has stopped doing that. Unless I've specifically highlighted a song, iTunes won't play anything when I hit the spacebar. I'm authorized to play all my songs, and all my keys are working right, but it just won't shuffle anymore.
Help?

Woo, fixed it.
All my selections had become unchecked, and I didn't realize that was the cause

ITunes Won't Stop Shuffling!

I have the latest desktop version of iTunes (11.1.3 (8) ) and I'm running Mac OS X 10.8.5. For the last couple of months (I can't remember which update), iTunes has been shuffling within albums any time I play music. It's very frustrating. I have shuffle turned off. If I turn it on, I can shuffle within Artist, Playlist, etc. - as it is supposed to do. However, I can't turn it off! Does anyone have any suggestions?
(In the "Control" menu, it's off - it Reads "Turn On Shuffle")
(The little shuffle icon is grey, not blue)

I'm not sure regarding OSX 10.8 + as I still run production machines on 10.6.8 but, I still have the same itunes version apperantly as you do through updates.
I noticed the same problems with shuffle not turning off but, after some thought I realized I had my mobile phone plugged in recharging on the computer. I also had shuffle turnrd off in iTunes and songs continued to shuffle! SMH
I did some quick testing and found:
1: When I ahut down iTunes, unpluged the mobile phone (running IOS btw), restarted iTunes there was no shuffle of songs! Yea!
2: I then looked at the iphone and where they used to have turn shuffle on or off of course wasnt there any more, only thing was that they had shake to shuffle in the music settings. I flipped the switch, plugged the iphone back in and restarted iTunes. Guess what???? No songs shuffled within iTunes! Hurray!
So apperantly it seems iTunes may be over ridden by device settings if their plugged in at the same time while trying to play ones iTunes..... smh
Check to see if this might be your scenario or not. I think I had even tried to go into the iTunes preferences or plist a while back and turn the code from true to off but that was a while ago also and it did not work anyway when I have a mobile device plugged in for recharging while iTunes was open.

ITunes won't recognize iPod - Extreme frustration!

So iTunes won't recognize my new IPod Video. It works fine with my kids' shuffle, mini and 4th gen but when I connect my new iPod I just get a window with: "iTunes cannot read the contents of the ipod "IPOD". Use the IPOD Software Updater Application to restore the IPOD to factory settings"
I've been trying since Christmas to get this thing working. I've tried the five R's, I've tried every combination of everything suggested on the Apple site, (including posts here) I've tried stuff from other apple users sites. No joy. I just got off the phone with the help rep from Apple. He talked me through the MSCONFIG stuff, no joy still. He told me to go to depot.info.apple.com/ipod and fill out the forms and they'd send me a package to put my iPod in to send them so they could fix it. It's personalized so it'll take an extra 3 weeks to fix. Needless to say, I'm very frustrated and extremely disapointed.
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Apple TV won't shuffle homemade music videos?

I've got a number of homemade videos (things downloaded from YouTube, etc.) I've set as music videos. Apple TV sees them just fine, and will play them just fine, but it WON'T shuffle them. It only seems to shuffle videos purchased from iTunes.
Has anybody run into this before?
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Choose a video in iTunes, right click on it and GetInfo.
Under options tab ,skip when shuffling, is probably selected - change it for all affected videos and you should be ok.

Playlists won't shuffle

i recently got a new computer and updated to itunes 10.1.0.54.
none of my playlists on my ipod will shuffle anymore. they will only play in order. they also won't shuffle when i am playing directly through my ipod. it will shuffle my entire library, but not the playlists.
i've looked at answers to similar problems and the fixes didn't work for me, or i didn't understand them.
thanks,
wendy

I am having the same problem with all of my playlists now in iTunes 10.1 They will play in order, but will not shuffle. Once you try to let it play the next track during shuffle or click next track, it stops playing. Didn't have this problem until this recent iTunes update!

Audiobook won't shuffle on ipod nano (and other related issues)

I am learning German and I bought a set which comes with an audio companion that you can use on your MP3/ipod. They come in units of no more than 3 minutes each and there are quite a few of them. I uploaded the content onto iTunes.
First of all iTunes recognised them as music and displayed them in my music file. No big deal, I went to 'Get info' on each one and changed the media kind to Audiobook so that they would show up there and not play with the rest of my music.
This is where the problems start: -
1. For some reason my nano won't shuffle the units. I can only assume that it thinks these are 'books' which you wouldn't shuffle. As such it simply plays one unit (3 mins long) and then repeats it. It doesn't even move onto the next unit/book. I've tried turning shuffle on and off, both on the ipod and on itunes to no avail. I've gone into 'get data' and the tick-box which says 'Skip when shuffling' is greyed out and can't be unchecked.
2. I can't skip to the next unit like I would when listening to a song. Pressing forward (right) does nothing. I literally have to return to the main menu and select another unit manually. Oddly enough, the only way I can get round this is by going into settings on the ipod and turning shuffle OFF. Then it allows me to skip to the next unit! Problem being that then none of my music will shuffle.
3. Once I select a new unit (either my returning to the main menu or skipping forward by turning shuffle OFF) it remembers my last position. I'm sure this is great for books, but not these small 3-minute units. I've gone into 'get data' and the tick-box which says 'Remember playback position' is greyed out and can't be unchecked.
These are my problems. I just want them to be like songs, but in a different file (i.e. not music) where I can skip forwards and backwards. I've tried adding them to their own playlist but the problems remain the same.
Any suggestions as to why this is or how I can resolve it would be greatly appreciated. It shouldn't be this hard.

Update to this -
I just tried changing it all back to Music, checking ''Skip when shuffling' and adding them to their own Playlist.
This works in so far as they won't now play when my music is playing, but I still have to turn Shuffle OFF in order to be able to skip units!
I want these shuffled, but of course I can't uncheck skip when shuffling, otherwise they'll play as part of my music. Catch 22.

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8). Disconnect your iPod by right clicking on the hardware icon in your system tray: Safely Disconnect IPod
9). Check the desktop folder and make sure all your songs are there.
10) Open iTunes and go to File>Add Folder to Library, navigate to the folder on your desktop and add the songs.
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Many thanks.
Yes, it is an "iTunes has encountered a problem" error. The ModName: dnssd. dll The ModVer: 2.0.5.0 Offset: 0000246c
With that one, by way of experiment, let's try disabling your Bonjour Service.
In your Start menu, right-click My Computer and select "Manage".
Expand "Services & Applications".
Open "Services". (Perhaps maximise the screen to better see what's going on.)
Right-click the Bonjour Service and select "Properties".
In the General tab, set the Startup type to "Disabled":
... and click OK.
Restart the PC and try launching iTunes again. Does it launch properly this time?

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I am trying add songs from my external hard drive to my iTunes Library.
I have the following options checked:
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"Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library."
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Suddenly, this no longer works. iTunes won't make a copy of the file anymore. It won't even make a copy of files located on my desktop.
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