'Skip when shuffling' using Apple TV

Listening to iTunes on the MAC, I can 'skip when shuffling' but when listening to iTunes using Apple TV, all the songs play. How do I 'skip when shuffling' while listening through Apple TV?

How are you listenign to the music? Are you using the music app, or the Computers > Music option? The music app is not connecting to iTunes so it will not have any of your iTunes settings on it. So you might try the other way if you have not already done so.

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I am playing music on my Apple TV 2 from my MacBook Pro. I have a bunch of stuff set to "Skip When Shuffling". Works great with my iPhone and iPod, but the Apple TV 2 plays the stuff and ignores the setting. Anyway to fix this?

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"Skip when shuffling" behavior on AppleTV

I've noticed that my Apple TV completely ignores the "Skip when shuffling" tag applied in iTunes (with respect to music at least). Is this consistent with other's experiences?

just so ppl know, the work-around is to make smart playlists in iTunes that exclude the files you don't want to shuffle and, and then to shuffle those playlists when using the Apple TV.
this should really be fixed.

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iTunes has two options for skipping a song during shuffle: the first column with the tick box (let's call this the "Play Column"), and the "Skip When Shuffling" tick box in the Options tab of the song info.
For songs in iTunes where the Play Column is unticked but Skip When Shuffling box is also unticked, this works as it should when synced to the iPhone: ie the song doesn't come up in shuffle, but it can still be selected & played directly on Music app.
But when the Skip When Shuffling box is ticked (regardless of whether the Play Column is ticked or not), the song can't even be selected & played directly on the Music app. When selected, it just picks another random song from my playlist to start shuffling from.
It's like the Skip When Shuffling option overrides the Play Column (no idea why iTunes should have two different options to do the same thing anyway), but has also now stopped the App from playing the song at all. I've tested this by unticking the Skip When Shuffling box in iTunes & re-syncing to the iPhone, and the Music app now plays the songs when selected directly.
My iPhone 4S using iOS8 always played these songs with no problem, so this is a new issue/bug/feature with either iO8.1 or the app in the iPhone 6 itself.

What kind of Music App are you using?
Maybe some Apps they have bugs when using iOS7.
I'm using MVDIO and zingmp3, it's still okay here.

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I'm wondering about the new "skip when shuffling" option in iTunes 5... does this apply only to when shuffling songs in iTunes, or is it supposed to work when shuffling songs on my iPod? Because it's not.
I've ticked this option for all of my classical songs, but they still turn up now and again when I'm shuffling songs on my iPod.
Is this because
a. This option only applies to shuffled songs playing in iTunes, and not on the iPod
b. This option will only work on the iPod software currently running on the
Nano, and will start to work when Apple release this version for all iPods.
c. It's broke.
My iPod is a 60Gb colour, running 1.2 software included in the June update. Anybody having similar problems, or know the answer?
Thanks,
- c -

OK... so I did some testing - I apparently have waaaaay too much time on my hands - and it seems that checking the "skip when shuffling" option for a song in the iTunes library does not flag the song as needing to be updated on the iPod.
I changed the genre for all of the songs I'd checked the "skip when shuffling" option for - so iTunes was forced into updating them on my iPod - and now these songs don't seem to appear when shuffling on the iPod.
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- c -

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My wife is having all kinds of problems setting iTunes to skip a song when shuffling. She sets it in iTunes and as soon she updates iTunes Match it removes the settings by from the songs. Any ideas?

Let me see if I can be clearer in my description of what's happening, sorry.
I put a group of songs into a playlist titled with the genre of the songs. Then I highlighted all of the songs in that playlist and clicked on options. Checked off the box "Skip when shuffling" because those songs still appear in my library in general. This should enable me to play my library and those songs would automatically get skipped everytime (yes, my iPod is in Shuffle mode) but they don't. They do when playing from iTunes on my desktop but not on my iPod when in the dock. (Yes, I sync'd my iPod)

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"Skip When Shuffling" - iPhone?

Hi there,
I've just discovered the "Skip When Shuffling" feature.
My question is - does this feature work on the iPhone?
If I check the "skip when shuffling" checkbox in iTunes, will this translate to the iPhone?
If not, do y'all have any suggestions as to how to manage this on iPhone?
I can create a playlist to exclude these items, but that seems like a clunky solution.
The thing is I have plenty of space, and I'd like to have the songs ON the phone just in case I have the occasion to want to listen to them. But I want to exclude them from shuffling.

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My question is - does this feature work on the iPhone?
If I check the "skip when shuffling" checkbox in iTunes, will this translate to the iPhone?
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being skipped when I choose "shuffle songs" on my iPod
oh! so you were talking about shuffling songs on the ipod, not itunes.
sorry. you didn't say. so i assumed you were talking about shuffling songs when playing them in itunes, given that we're in one of those forums.
i'll leave you in peace now.
love, b

List of songs marked "skip when shuffling"?

I've marked a number of songs to "skip when shuffling," and I have no problem with that.
However, my computer's hard drive just crashed and I'm putting Humpty Dumpty back together again. I was able to keep the music (including some I'd deleted between the time of my last backup and the crash), but not the libraries and playlists.
And the things like "skip when shuffling."
So.. on my old computer, is there a way to get a list of things I'd marked that way? Then I'd get at least most of it.
I'd ask if there was a way to transfer the libraries, and I started to, but I'm going to go ahead and do some other cleanup, too, so what the heck.
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If you need it, I have a script that creates a playlist of any tracks excluded from the shuffle, FindSkipOnShuffle.vbs, which:
creates a playlist "skip on shuffle" if it doesn't exist;
deletes anything in that playlist if it already exists;
adds any tracks that are marked as skip on shuffle; and
displays a message that tells you when it's done (because it's slow, taking about a minute to scan through 10,000 tracks, it's nice to know when it's done).
If you want to run this, just right click on the above link, save it to your PC, and invoke it while iTunes is running.

Problem with "Skip when shuffling"

OK I have a 2nd Gen iPod Nano 2gig.
I have several audio books that I do not want to come up when I'm shuffling. Each audiobook has it's own playlist and I set them all to "Skip when shuffling". It works fine...until I listen to those audiobooks. The minute I listen to one of the chapters it will undo the "skip when shuffling" option on that particular chapter and any other chapters I listen to.
Any suggestions on how to get them to stay on "skip when shuffling"??

Well I figured out how to fix this, with no help from this forum. If you're going to store songs on your iPod that you want "Skip when Shuffling" turned on, make sure you turn it one BEFORE you sync them to your iPod.

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