Shuffle songs by Genre?

How can I shuffle songs by Genre? I don't want to create a playlist by genre?

Genre..Select the genre...All Albums...All Songs...Shuffle.
Is that what you meant?

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This is the only drawback I find in an otherwise great piece of kit.

Thanks Jeff, funnily enough I'd just sorted it. The problem I had was that in "settings", the top of the list was "EQ". I didn't realise "shuffle" was up there if I scrolled up instead of down !
Doh !!
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WTH Apple is all I can say! I used this option daily...The only way around this is to go under songs, and using the search option, start to type the genre you want. It will eventually come up. But holy moley...might as well call it IOS 7 minus itunes shuffle by genre...Who are the genius's making these calls?

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I know how to play songs shuffled within a playlist
using iTunes... but when I select playlist on my
iPod the songs are not shuffled. How do I shuffle
songs within a playlist when playing them on the
iPod??
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Under the Settings menu, select Shuffle. Try setting the shuffle to to "Songs" rather than "Albums". That's what worked for me. Also works to shuffle songs from your entire library under Music/Songs. If you have it set to album, it will shuffle the albums but not the songs within the album. Hope this helps!

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When I set Settings | Shuffle to "Songs", my iPod Classic does indeed shuffle all the songs for an Artist or Genre. But when I select a specific Album, it always plays all the songs on the album sequentially -- always beginning with the first song.
Tech support and user forums indicate that Shuffle "should" also work for a specific Album, but it fails to do so on every Album I've tried. Again, it does work for Artist, Genre, etc. -- but NOT for a single Album.
Help...? Any suggestions or info would be greatly appreciated!

Hi,
Try changing it to Shuffle Songs as described below.
+*Setting iPod classic to Shuffle Songs*+
+You can set iPod classic to play songs, albums, or your entire library in random order.+
+*To set iPod classic to shuffle and play all your songs:*+
+1. Choose Shuffle Songs from the iPod classic main menu.+
+2. iPod classic begins playing songs from your entire music library in random order,+
+skipping audiobooks and podcasts.+
+*To set iPod classic to always shuffle songs or albums:*+
+1. Choose Settings from the iPod classic main menu.+
+2. Set Shuffle to either Songs or Albums.+
+When you set iPod classic to shuffle songs by choosing Settings > Shuffle, iPod classic+
+shuffles songs within the list (for example, album or playlist) you choose to play.+
+When you set iPod classic to shuffle albums, it plays all the songs on an album in order,+
+and then randomly selects another album in the list and plays through it in order.+
+*To set shuffle options from the Now Playing screen:*+
+Press the Center button until you see the shuffle icon. Choose Songs, Albums, or Off.+
from page 28 of the iPod Classic User Guide
http://manuals.info.apple.com/enUS/iPod_classic_120GBen.pdf
-Jason

Shuffle songs within a playlist before syncingio

I can't use shuffle on my ipod player in my car or on the one that's attached to my TV.
I would like to shuffle the songs in a playlist and then sync it so they'll play in that order.
Is that doable?

From the main menu>Settings>Shuffle>Songs. Then, navigate back to the playlist, artist, album or genre NAME you want to shuffle. With the name highlighted, push play (not select).
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Yeah I remember in the lastest iOS 6 version the option to shuffle a specific genre of music was always available now you guys took it off, how come??? Sometimes I want to hear just electronica and other times maybe hip hop. Please fix this problem and yes I updated my phone to the lastest iOS version and it's still not there
THANKS!!!
P.S. I realize that I can ask Siri but sometimes she dumb as rocks, plus I'm old skool I rather choose the option myself

I fixed this issue (with help from tech support) and it involved several things.
After adding a song to iTunes, right-click on the song in iTunes and select "Update iTunes Match."
OR go to the iTunes menu-->Store-->Update iTunes Match.
Maybe that's the reason, it just hadn't updated to the cloud.
OR maybe it's not a high-enough bitrate file. This happens to me because most of my tunes are home-recorded.
Sometimes converting to .mp3 or Create AAC version might work. (You do this with a right-click in iTunes, and then you will want to remove the original file from iTunes.)
There is an iTunes Preferences setting, under General Preferences called Import Settings. Try setting it to AAC Encoder and iTunes Plus. That (I think) causes imports to be slightly better quality.
Good luck! The tech support person at Apple is requesting that a knowlege-base article be written about this.

IOS7 Problem: Music App: Shuffle Through 1 Genre

Hello,
I used to play one genre and play all artists in that genre and shuffle songs. I can't seem to figure out how to do this in iOS7. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I don't understand why they would take that feature off. I'm sure they'll put it back on once they realize the multitude of people that are complaining about missing options. I found a easier way to shuffle a genre instead of asking Siri. I'm Hispanic and Siri doesn't always understand what I'm trying to say when I say to shuffle "salsa" for example. But anyway, all you have to do is go to Artists..in the search bar type in the name of the genre and it should pop up as a "genre (1)" with the name of the genre underneath. Then you just click it, and on top it should say shuffle all songs and voila! Hopefully this helps.

Can you shuffle songs in a playlist?

I was just wondering if anyone knows if you can randomly shuffle songs in a playlist. I have all my music divided up by Genre and sometimes I want to listen to one rather than the other. When I hit shuffle songs, it goes back to the entire library and shuffles all the songs. Thanks for the help.

Go into settings and turn shuffle on to Songs. Once
you turn shuffle on, if you select the playlist name
and hit play the playlist will play shuffled.
If you go into the playlist (so you can see each
song) and play it it won't shuffle. This hosed me
into thinking shuffle didnt't work when I first got
my ipod.
Thank you! That worked!

Shuffling songs

I am having problems shuffling songs both in the library & when I connect the i-pod shuffle. I have followed the instructions done all of the updates & am still unable to shuffle the songs. Any tips?

Hey Bill,
On your ipod, go to SETTINGS > SHUFFLE and set it to SONGS. Then go back and play your genre, and it will be shuffled.
Cheers!
-Bryan

Can not shuffle songs

I recently joined iCloud and since then have not been able to shuffle songs on my Apple TV.
My songs are on the Apple TV. They are all there; all the album art is there, and I can play them individually; however when I click "Shuffle Songs" I receive the following message - "No content was found".
My Home Sharing is on, and I have unplugged the Apple TV and restarted my iMac, but keep getting the same error message.
I would appreciate any suggestions.

At least for me, it's when I'm trying to shuffle songs from my desktop's library on the appletv. So not icloud-hosted stuff. It's just that the timing seems to coincide with activation of an icloud account.
So it's able to access the library to display artwork, list all the songs, artists, albums, etc. and even play individual songs or shuffle playlists, but it no longer can shuffle if you select all songs, or a genre and all albums, etc.
From his description, it sounds to me like the OP is seeing exactly the same thing - it can access everything, but balks at shuffling directly from the library itself.

How do i stop my iPhone iTunes from Shuffling songs?

I cannot figure out how to stop my iPhone Music/iTunes from shuffling songs but instead to play them in order.

In the Music app, tap the screen to bring up an extra menu bar showing the current song's timeline. In the lower right is a pair of crossed arrows -- when enabled (blue), shuffle is on, tap it to turn shuffle off (gray).
Edited to add: That's when you've got the album cover image up, if you're on the track listing, tap the upper-right corner to bring it back to cover art view. The other two indicators/buttons on the bottom of the same bar are "repeat" (bottom left) to repeat the current track or playlist (two options), and "genius" (bottom center) to generate playlists of songs similar to the one currently playing.

My IPod no longer shuffles songs within playlists that are clearly set to shuffle. It is about 3/4 full so I thought of maybe compressing the files to get more space. Do you think that is the problem and if that might help?

My IPod no longer shuffles songs within playlists that are clearly set to shuffle. It is about 3/4 full so I thought of maybe compressing the files to get more space. Do you think that is the problem and if that might help?

Storage space on the iPod would not affect shuffled playlists or playlist shuffling, though substantially full iPods may wind up skipping songs on larger playlists after a while, and require a restart. As for compressing the files themselves, you can automatically re-encode files to a lower bitrate by checking the box on the summary page when your iPod is connected to your PC/Mac.
As for the shuffle problem, after restarting your iPod (hold the center button and Menu for a few seconds, until the Apple logo appears), make sure you're telling the iPod to shuffle the songs in a playlist by repeatedly clicking the center button until the Suffle Menu comes up, then scroll to the right to turn it on. From that song forward, the playlists' contents should be shuffled every time the playlist ends, or is accessed from a new song.
Shuffle does sometimes turn itself off, I've found, so double-check the setting is still on. Also, iPods shuffle by randomly assigning a playlist order for your songs, which is different from traditional shuffle (on, say, iTunes or Windows Media Player, where the new song is determined at random upon the current track ending. The iPod only chooses a random order of songs when you shuffle, to conserve battery life and queue up songs coming up on the playlist in the event of a shock).

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