Shuffling playlists or by genre

Is it possible to shuffle only within a certain playlist or within a genre? When I try to shuffle it includes the entire library, but I'd like to be able to shuffle only kids songs or other genres at certain times.

you should be able to set the nano to only shuffle the songs in a specific playlist. you can either go to the Settings menu and select All on the Shuffle menu, or you can, on a certain song in that specific playlist, press the center button three or four times, until a bar shows up with the words "off", "shuffle", and something else (i don't have my iPod with me currently!). use the click wheel and select "Shuffle" and that will shuffle the songs in that particular playlist.
hope that helps and happy listening!
-MacDarling55

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Is there a way to create multiple party shuffle playlists?? I would like to have a party shuffle for 3 or 4 different genres of music
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well, ive done that already.. But you see, Im setting up a internet radio station using automator to change playlists automaticly.. So I want a few different party shuffle playlists already set up so i can just trigger those at a sheduled time.
Maybe there is a way to switch the party shuffle input playlist within automator??

How can I see my shuffled playlist? It used to arrange in shuffled order in the window. now it just jumps ramdomly to songs. I want to be able to see ahead and behind easily, like before.

How can I see my shuffled playlist? It used to arrange in shuffled order in the window. now it just jumps ramdomly to songs. I want to be able to see ahead and behind easily, like before.

David Hurwitz wrote:
How can I see my shuffled playlist? It used to arrange in shuffled order in the window. now it just jumps ramdomly to songs. I want to be able to see ahead and behind easily, like before.
It does not look like this is possible with iTunes 11 (or 11.0.1).

HeIp Ipod Shuffle "Playlist" no longer appear in itunes when disconnected.

I got a new laptop and was forced to load up the latest version of itunes, which for me has worked fine. I connected my first gen. shuffle and married it to my new computer. But on my old computer/version of itunes i was able to keep the "shuffle's playlist" on itunes at all times so it was easy to tweak my songs and then whenever i charged my ipod all the songs would update. now it seems i cannot keep the playlist contents of my shuffle on itunes and have to update the shuffle manually while its connected which takes much more time. Where is the setting to change this so i can see the shuffle playlist all the time?
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It appears from many other posts that the " Keep This iPod in the Source List" function isn't included in iTunes 7 unfortunately. You can leave your feedback on it's absence at this link: Apple Product Feedback
You can check out a workaround at this link which may help out for now: Create ready-to-sync playlists for Shuffles in iTunes 7

HOW DO I CREATE A 30GB SHUFFLE PLAYLIST FROM ITUNES LIBRARY TO FILL MY IPOD

is it possible to generate a playlist lets call it, that is like a shuffle playlist but able to fill an ipod? where would i find the command like, " fill ipod randomly from itunes library"? wouldn't it be great !! just hook up the pod and have it filled with random songs from your library. every day you could have a new playlist, but a really big and different one.
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Just create a new Smart playlist.
Limit it to 27.5GB at Random.
Also, set it to My rating is not One Star.
Rate songs you do not want on the iPod to One star.
Connect the iPod & select it as the Source.
Go to the Music tab and set to Sync only this playlist.
To change the music, select this playlist in iTunes.
Select all songs and press Delete. It will fill up again at random.

Where can i find the shuffle playlist?

Hi, currently i am using iTunes 9.0.2, before i update to this version, when i play shuffle, i can see a playlist mix with all shuffle songs (which i know whats next shuffle song, and if i dont like it i can simply click shuffle and it will update a new list of shuffle songs), may i know if they cancel the shuffle playlist view in version 9? Thanks.

The old "Party Shuffle" has been replaced with the "iTunes DJ".
Here's more about that: http://www.macworld.com/article/139720/2009/03/itunesdj.html

Auto Create Shuffled Playlist?

I've just bought an iPod Shuffle (3G) and love it, and I like how when I tell it to sync my entire music library (60GB) it automatically picks 4GB of music at random and adds it to a shuffled playlist which it then syncs. Unfortunately, I deleted the 'auto shuffled' playlist when adding some other playlists I'd created. Now I want to fill up the remaining space with songs picked at random - is there any way to have iTunes re-create one of these auto shuffled playlists? Or do I just have to grab a selection from my library and drag it across?

iTunes has taken to building playlists (and starting to play them) from any .m3u files it finds while importing media folders. It isn't clear yet whether this behavior is supposed to be a new "feature" or has been accidentally introduced, but importing folders that contain .m3u files may not give the results you are used to.
iTunes Folder Watch would work well if your current workflow is to have iTunes scan the media folder for new files, since it only adds the file types you want it to. However if you are specifically adding individual folders then, at least for now, you probably need to remove or edit the extention of .m3u files before importing.
On the other hand, if you don't need the playlist files then throw them away. Use the search tool in Windows Explorer to find files of the form *.m3u in your media folders, select them all with Ctrl-A and then delete.
tt2

How can I get iTunes 11 to Shuffle Playlists like old version?

Anyone have any idea why they changed the shuffle function in the iTunes player? I really liked being able to see what the shuffled playlist would be and reshuffle if I didn't like the way it was mixed up. Is there a setting I can change to get it back?

Found it: PREFERENCES --> STORE --> uncheck "Show iTunes in the Cloud Purchases."

Shuffle Playlist songs only

Hey I have an 80gb video, and i love it
but im dissapointed with apple for having very little instructions on how to use it (i've figured most of it out now) but i just made a playlist after four months and im a little mad. for one reason and that is because the songs dont shuffle, but then when i go into the settings and turn shuffle songs only on it shuffles the playlist but also all of my songs and albums (which is really stupid, there should be a shuffle playlist setting) unless there is something else i can do, help is appreciated

http://www.apple.com/support/ipod101/
Shuffle Songs from the main menu will shuffle everything.
If you select Settings -> Shuffle - songs, whatever you select will be shuffled.
If you do not want to shuffle a selection, you must set Settings -> Shuffle to Off.
There is no shuffle setting for playlist by playlist basis.

Shuffle playlist will skip every song in the playlist.

If shuffle is checked before attempting to play a song, the whole playlist will be skipped, song by song, although the list does re-arrange itself as a shuffle playlist. If I play a song and then check shuffle, the song will continue to play thorough, but all subsequent songs will be skipped. It will play the last possible song when that point is reached. I have not found a single comment about this particular problem online, and I have been searching for days. I am using a Mac mini as a music server and running OS 10.6.8. The version of iTunes on that computer is 10.5.2. I have no plans to update iTunes on this computer. I have repaired permissions and run DiskWarrior. No songs have "skip shuffle" checked.
I also have a new iMac running Mavericks with iTunes 12.0.1, and playlists have no problem shuffling on that machine, nor do they have problems on my iPhone, iPad or iPod.

Ginger,
Make sure that all the songs have a checkmark. iTunes will not automatically advance to an unchecked song.
If you do not see the checkboxes, go to Preferences > General and enable Show List Checkboxes.

Shuffle Playlist after selecting a song?

Is there any way to have a playlist shuffle after selecting a song from the playlist without having to select shuffle playlist after the song plays?

Have you checked to make sure the Shuffle setting has not been enabled in Settings? If so, try a hard reset to see if that helps as well. To do this, press and hold both the Select (Center) and Menu buttons together long enough for the Apple logo to appear.
B-rock

80GB Video iPod - Shuffling playlist?

I have 2 iPods,
8GB nano shuffles tracks inside a playlist by default.
I'm still having trouble figuring out how to shuffle "playlist" on 80GB video iPod.
Please help.
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Hello.
I have found a temporary work around the iPod playlists not recognizing videos. I too think this a really big problem. I just did not realize just how bit it was!
I use mine to pass thew time whil I workout at the Gym.
This is my temeporary soulution util apple fixes the problem.
I used a video editing software Adobe Premiere Elements 4.0 because I am just descovering QuickTime.
I have copied my desired videos into the Adobe program.
I then export the one video made up of many videos using MPEG4.
I Then use the quick Time Player Pro to convert the MPEG4 video to iPod.
I then Sync my iPod to my computer.
I create the lenght of the video time I desire for my workout which is between 45 minutes to one hour.
I have created various videos.
This is in no way as good as the playlist but it is certainly much better than the present sintuation.
PS: I hope Apple fixes this problem soon!
If anyone needs some help with this you can email me at [email protected]
Thank you.

All songs synced when selected playlists, artists and genres is used

For some reason when I check check "selected playlists, artists and genres" and uncheck the artists I do not want on the iphone they are not removed.
Reading the forums it was indicated that songs that are part of a playlist will not be removed so I deleted all the playlists and the songs/artists are still on the iphone.
I then removed all songs and added them back in but they are still there.
I even disabled genius and the artists/songs are still there.
I know I can manually manage the music but unchecking the artists would be very unwieldy.
The main summary screen is set to open itunes when this iphone is connected and nothing else and the music tab does not have the automatically fill free space with songs checked.

Just installed iTunes 10 in the hopes that this would resolve the issue but to no avail.
Help please I just want to sync my phone and leave off artists I uncheck (multiple albums and compilations)

How can i save my Shuffle playlist on new version of itunes?

I got a new laptop and was forced to load up the latest version of itunes, which for me has worked fine. I connected my first gen. shuffle and married it to my new computer. But on my old computer/version of itunes i was able to keep the "shuffle's playlist" on itunes at all times so it was easy to tweak my songs and then whenever i charged my ipod all the songs would update. now it seems i cannot keep the playlist contents of my shuffle on itunes and have to update the shuffle manually while its connected which takes much more time. Where is the setting to change this so i can see the shuffle playlist all the time?
shuffle 1st gen Windows XP

It appears from many other posts that the " Keep This iPod in the Source List" function isn't included in iTunes 7 unfortunately. You can leave your feedback on it's absence at this link: Apple Product Feedback
You can check out a workaround at this link which may help out for now: Create ready-to-sync playlists for Shuffles in iTunes 7

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How do I shuffle songs in a genre in the new iTunes on an iPhone or iPad?

I was at the Apple store today and one of their "geniuses" confirmed it is not possible to shuffle songs in one specific genre. He had not noticed this himself, and after trying to do it on my iPod, he tried it on his iPhone, and that did not work either. He told me the best he could do was tell his boss. This of course, does not help much, but we can always hope they fix the issue sometime soon.

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