Party shuffle issue

Hello, I'm having an odd issue occur.
About a week ago, the Party Shuffle feature stopped playing more than one song. Whatever would normally point it to the next song, seems to not be in place.
I updated to the new iTunes version a few weeks back, but this didn't happen until more recently. Anyone have any ideas?

If you want to see my question, here it is.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=669972&tstart=0

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How it is possible, I don't know....how to resolve I don't know either.
My party shuffle is empty and I don't know how to fill it again. I have succeeded in dragging my whole library to Party shuffle, but then it plays in alphabetical order, even when I click on refresh (nothing happens). Below my list, "source"is set on "library" and I have also seen to it that "Recently played songs" and "Upcoming songs" have numbers in the boxes.
How can I manage to get iTunes to automatically fill and shuffle Party Shuffle?
Can anybody help me out?
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I am also having Party Shuffle issues. First, I couldn't get it to refresh with new songs. I tried clearing all the songs and then refreshing, and that worked once. Now, I went out of Itunes then back in again and the same thing happened. Except now when I hit the refresh, I get the following warning: The playlist "Library" does not contain any songs playable by Party Shuffle. Are you sure you want to choose this playlist?
If I choose any playlist, I get this message. If I hit OK anyway, no songs appear. Can someone help???

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I can shuffle songs on my iPod, but when I click party shuffle in iTunes on my computer, it is empty. It's set to display 5 recently played songs and 20 upcoming songs. And (because I saw this referenced in other discussions) the "crossfade" option is not clicked. Why won't the Party Suffle populate?!
Thanks!

I am also having Party Shuffle issues. First, I couldn't get it to refresh with new songs. I tried clearing all the songs and then refreshing, and that worked once. Now, I went out of Itunes then back in again and the same thing happened. Except now when I hit the refresh, I get the following warning: The playlist "Library" does not contain any songs playable by Party Shuffle. Are you sure you want to choose this playlist?
If I choose any playlist, I get this message. If I hit OK anyway, no songs appear. Can someone help???

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!
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I am still on 6.0.5 so I can't really deal with your question, but just an observation.
You say the source for your party shuffle is a smart playlist. How many songs are there in the smart playlist? The fewer there are the more likely you are to get repeats in your party suffle list. Appologies if this is obvious.

Where's the party? Party Shuffle shows nothing. Zero. Zip. Nada.

Up until recently, Party Shuffle worked fine. All of a sudden, with nothing that I can see being changed (at least by me), my Music Library no longer shows in Party Shuffle. Changing the source of the music (i.e. Recently Purchased, 90's Music, etc.) doesn't do anything either. There's absolutely nothing in the playlist...
I've checked through my Preferrences ad nauseum and can't seem to locate the issue. I've even reinstalled the software and no dice. Thoughts?

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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I'm sorry, I wasn't clear. I'm talking about shuffle on the iPod. I have the songs in my Christmas playlist deselected so that they don't play when I shuffle songs in my iPod - I thought. But since the last update, they seem to play anyhow.
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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).
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Do not fear, I have the same issue. It only continues to play if songs are displayed before playing.
I am couting the hours until a patch for this comes out. I rely heavily on party shuffle to get through the day.

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