Party Shuffle changed behaviour?

There seems to be a change to Party Shuffle in the newest version of iTunes. When I set it to show 0 upcoming songs (I like to be surprised) it won't grab another song to play after the current song finishes playing, everything stops.
Is this an intended change? And if so, why bother allowing the option of showing 0 upcoming songs!!

Yes if it was set to zero if it ran out of user selected songs it would just play a random one. I (and the original posters) just want it to work the way it did before.
I delete songs because I didn't select them. iTunes randomly selects some songs if my selections get under 5, and if I select some new songs using 'add songs to party shuffle' the songs selected by iTunes get sandwiched between my 'priority songs' and the new songs. Deleting those tracks doesn't change the continous aspect (when set on 5 or more).
I know I'm not doing a great job of explaining how I like to listen to music. Siffice it to say I wish it would work like it used to. In the grand scheme of things it's a minor issue, but I'm bugged by the change.

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Thanks for the support . I decided to provide Apple with some feedback as well. This is what I sent them:
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It seems that right now it is impossible to change the default setting of having newly downloaded podcast episodes set to 'Skip when shuffling'. This causes them not to be played in party shuffle and be skipped in playlists when you have shuffling enabled.
One of the many exciting things about smart playlists is that you can use them to create your own radio station that is tuned to your likes and dislikes. I've used a combination of a dozen or so playlists to create a 'Radio Mix Playlist' that plays music I like as well as episodes from podcasts I follow like the BBC World News Service.
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Can my Party Shuffle problems be solved? Is anybody else experiencing this?

There are 3 glitches i have encountered using Party Shuffle (PS) in iTunes (v 7.0.2.16) that i don't know how to fix:
1) When PS displays/sets the upcoming songs i'll be listening to, which are pulled from one of my smart playlists, a song will frequently show up twice in the shuffle queue. The higher the number of songs i have displayed "on deck", the more likely i am to see songs repeat, but i'll often have a song listed twice in just a 10 song shuffle queue, and sometimes thrice. Once the song is actually played though, it won't be put back into my PS queue anytime soon (because the smart playlist i have PS pull the songs from is set to only include songs i haven't listened to in the last month and have a playcount less than 10 or so (which by the way is an otherwise great way to sortof normalize the "randomness" of the iTunes' shuffle probabilities).) Nevertheless, it's not until the song actually plays and in turn updates the Last Played and Playcount fields for the song that it will take it out of the smartplaylist... but by then the song has already been queued multiple times in PS. (By the way, my Smart Shuffle playback option in iTunes preferences is set to the "least likely" extreme.) Anyway, it sounds like a lot of people are having issues with songs repeating too much and with iTunes' ghost preferences for some songs over others.
2) I've also noticed that a number of people were having trouble getting PS to play songs continuously instead of one-at-a-time (i.e. having to press play again after each song ends to get the next queued one going). I heard this was taken care of with the latest update - v 7.0.2.16 (although i wish there actually were a way to toggle a continuous play option). Anyway, the recomened solution at the time seemed to be to set the PS option for displaying the number of recently played songs to something other than 0. So, i thought i would change mine to 0 to see if it actually would only play one-at-a-time. It did not. Instead, it started to do something even stranger. It now updates the Last Played and Playcount fields for the new song coming into the queue instead of the song that just finished playing. This isn't really the biggest deal to me, since i usually like to see what the last few songs played were, but it's a glitch nonetheless.
3) The only other thing i've personally noticed, which isn't really the biggest deal either, is that sometimes when i tell iTunes to "clear album artwork" from a song... well, it doesn't do it. So i have the wrong album cover showing up in PS for songs that are playing. The only way it seems i can get rid of it is to replace it with some different image/cover... which can be a little annoying when you don't want to take the time to go trackdown the correct 200 x 200 pixel image for the album.
Well, i hope someone can help... especially with the first one. I'm guessing these issues can't be resolved until some future updates are released to deal with them. I hope you can prove me wrong though. I also hope Apple has some people listening in these forums for people talking about this stuff so they can fix these bugs... 'cause i don't know of anywhere someone can report an iTunes software bug/glitch.
Cheers!
Dell Dimension XPS T600r Windows XP Pentium 3 600MHz, 32mb video card

I am still on 6.0.5 so I can't really deal with your question, but just an observation.
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Unauthorized songs stop play from Party Shuffle.

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It works... i just tested it.
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Dear All,
Does anybody know if there is a way of party shuffling a shared library?
My music library lives downstairs in the living room, at my iMac, and is shared wirelessly with a windows laptop elsewhere in the house.
I don't generally listen by any method other than Party Shuffle - but I can't seem to do that on the itunes on the laptop.
I can play all the music in the shared library randomly by pressing the random button at the bottom left and double clicking on 'all artists', but this is really not as good as Party Shuffle (I like to sit down and prune the upcoming list depending on my mood / company).
If anybody can help I'd be much obliged.
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It's been that way ever since Party Shuffle appeared in iTunes.
One way I used to do it when I had my music library on a desktop computer and I was using a PowerBook was to use remote desktop software like VNC to control the remote computer.
Or if you quit out of iTunes on the remote computer and use file sharing to mount the remote file system you could hold the Option key down on your local computer and then select the library on the shared volume. I haven't tried this but I think it may work. Changing libraries was something introduced in the latest version of iTunes, although I don't think this was what they had in mind when introduced it.

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Select Library - Music.
NI View, next tot eh Search at the top right of iTunes, select List or Grouped with artwork, one of the first two button (not cover browser).
Go to menu View -> Show browser.
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I deleted all the songs in Party Shuffle, and now, the feature will no longer operate. Right now, Party Shuffle lists only one song from one playlist, and when I choose other sources from the source selection list located below the track listing window in an effort to get Party Shuffle to accept other songs, it consistently informs me "The playlist '[chosen source]' does not contain any songs playable by Party Shuffle. Are you sure you want to choose this playlist?" I receive this message regardless of which source I choose, whether it be my music library or one of my playlists, including the playlist containing the one track now listed. Answering "Cancel" or "Okay" to that dialog box only affects whether or not the chosen source is listed as the selected source. ("Cancel" leaves the source listed as it is, while "Okay" changes the source listed to the selected source, though without affecting the listing of the tracks, er, track.)
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Message was edited by: PaulGK

Never mind. I solved the problem when, just for the heck of it, I decided to select (by checkmark, not highlight) all of the tracks in my music library to see if that would make a difference. Yep, it made a big difference. In fact, it made all the difference. Apparently, tracks must be checked to be available for Party Shuffle, but you'd never know that from the "Creating a custom mix using Party Shuffle" entry in iTunes Help. There's no mention of that critical step at all. So that solves the mystery as to why I continued to receive that dialog box telling me that my source selection did not contain any songs playable by Party Shuffle. Yeah, no kidding: 'Cause I hadn't selected any tracks in the first place! Thanks a lot, whoever wrote that incomplete iTunes Help entry on how to use Party Shuffle. What a waste of time, frustration, and anxiety, all because of some poorly written documentation... sigh

Party Shuffle doesn't work as intended

Hi,
my brother's iTunes does not work as intended. His Party Shuffle lists songs in order of artists and their albums = it does not shuffle! Pressing the 'Shuffle' button does not change the order at all. Changing the shuffle logic slider in preferences does not affect at all. Rebooting or repairing permissions does not work.
I have 2 iMacs with iTunes working great so I think I've tried everything. Is this a MacBook bug? Any suggestions?
Thanks!
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Hi Jamaikas,
I'm sure no one is intentionally ignoring your question.
Seaching for "party shuffle" in the forum comes up with a TON of hits. Here is a post that might help you:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3564323&#3564323
-HTH
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