Party Shuffle w/ Sharing

Sharing my music from my desktop to my laptop using Airtunes I find that I cannot choose a folder in Party Shuffle to access my shared music. Is this part of the copyright law problem? Is there a way around this? I would prefer Party Shuffle over the old fashioned Shuffle option. Any ideas?
Thanks.

Count me in on this one. I logged in to check this and one other issue, both of which it appears are not yet available. Just to reiterate, I would like to see iTunes support:
1) Party Shuffle capability for shared playlists
2) Allow user to rate songs in shared playlists (permissions could be controlled on the serving library)
It looks like I'm in the same situation as at least several other people are - I want to store and manage just one main library (in the basement, in my case), while creating "shell" iTunes libraries on other household computers (or possibly media servers in the future) that access the shared library in the basement. Party Shuffle is fantastic; it seems that it wouldn't be too hard to update iTunes to serve random songs per Smart Playlist rules to a requesting client. After all, it's already serving songs as it is. Likewise, I've loaded my entire CD collection, but have only rated maybe half of my music to date. I like my basement, but it sure would be nice if I could rate songs while I stream them over my family room stereo (I have a special smart playlist that only feeds me unrated songs - only 1566 songs to go...).
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Party Shuffling a shared library

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.
Cheers,
Doug
iMac, purple, CRT Mac OS X (10.3.9) 512MB RAM

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.

Party Shuffle with Shared Music

I saw this question posted a few times (all of which are archived and do not allow posting of replies). Does anyone have any good info as to why Party Shuffle can't pull from a shared music library? The only real "workaround" is to play the library and select the "Shuffle" button, but you obviously don't have control over what songs get played next.
I would really like to see this available. Is it in the works or should I just not expect it at all.

Doesn't look like anyone else cares... Oh well...

Party Shuffle with shared library

Is there anyway to use Party Shuffle on a remote computer with a shared library as the source? I have all my music on my G5 but my laptop is what I use during parties.

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.

Unauthorized songs stop play from Party Shuffle.

I have a mac laptop that is authorized for two iTunes store accounts, and a computer authorized for only one. I get audio files from a shared source, a linux machine with a pair of harddrives in RAID, but after importing all of the songs into iTunes, it will add those that are not authorized to play, and will put them into party shuffle, and every time it comes to one of them it will ask for authorization information, and will not go onto the next one untill I manually skip to the next song.
How do I set it to not add music that the computer is not authorized to play to party shuffle, since rarely can I see someone wanting to authorize a computer when it gets to a track in party shuffle, and the fact that it stops playing is annoying.

It works... i just tested it.
if you want to prove it to yourself, or check, just make a new playlist, add, say, three songs to it, then change party shuffle to use that folder, go back to playlist, uncheck one song, go back to party shuffle, hit refresh, and bask in my genious!

Party Shuffle over Network

Hello all,
Sharing my music library over a network using Airtunes is great.
I really dig using Party Shuffle on my main Mac but when sharing to my iMac iTunes doesn't allow me to use Party Shuffle, only the regular Shuffle option.
Is there any way around this?
Any help would help.
Thanks!
OP

Count me in on this one. I logged in to check this and one other issue, both of which it appears are not yet available. Just to reiterate, I would like to see iTunes support:
1) Party Shuffle capability for shared playlists
2) Allow user to rate songs in shared playlists (permissions could be controlled on the serving library)
It looks like I'm in the same situation as at least several other people are - I want to store and manage just one main library (in the basement, in my case), while creating "shell" iTunes libraries on other household computers (or possibly media servers in the future) that access the shared library in the basement. Party Shuffle is fantastic; it seems that it wouldn't be too hard to update iTunes to serve random songs per Smart Playlist rules to a requesting client. After all, it's already serving songs as it is. Likewise, I've loaded my entire CD collection, but have only rated maybe half of my music to date. I like my basement, but it sure would be nice if I could rate songs while I stream them over my family room stereo (I have a special smart playlist that only feeds me unrated songs - only 1566 songs to go...).
HP Laptop Windows XP Pro Multiple machines (tower, laptop) trying to share one library effectively...
HP Laptop

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.

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Thanks.

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