Song count - Shuffle vs All Music
When playing in "Shuffle" mode I see the song count in the upper left corner as 1 of 2897. Yet when going to "Settings, About" I see there are 3053 songs loaded on the iPod. I've owned this 20Gb unit for about 3 years and I don't remember these ever being different. Anyone know why?
Thanks in advance.
jb
Well I think it finally dawned on me why I'm getting a difference in the counts when playing in shuffle mode vs the total number of tunes on the iPod.
The newer version of iTunes has a checkbox to indicate,
"Skip When Shuffling". And yes I did take adavantage of this setting to exclude certain songs when "shuffling". Songs such as Jethro Tull's Thick As a Brick. Although a great song it's 43+ minutes long and not something I care to listen to when I'm traveling and can't fast-forward to the next tune. The iPod usually resides in the trunk of my motorcycle and I can't skip a song quite as easily as one would think.
So you iPod gurus may want to take notice that the iTunes option of excluding during shuffle may throw off your tune counts.
Sorry for the unnecessary intrusion but my memory is not what it used to be.
jb
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