Tracks in album playing in random order

When it goes onto the next track or I hit the forward button it seems to go to a random track. Not 1-2-3-4-5 etc as expected.

Do you have shuffle on? With a track playing, tap the album art (in portrait orientation) to bring up the scrubber bar. At the right side of that is a shuffle icon (crossed arrows) - if it's blue, you've got the global shuffle on; tap it to turn it off (white).

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I am seeing a problem whereby album and/or playlist tracks are being played in random order. The problem is affecting both my iPhone and ipod Nano and seemed to start fairly simultaneously onboth devices. This isn't like using Shuffle - after listening to 1 or 2 tracks in an album or playlist random tracks are being played from elsewhere in my music library. The problem doesn't occur when listening to albums or playlists on my Macbook. I'm running iTunes 8.0.2 on my Macbook.
Appreciate any advice from anyone that may have seen a similar problem!

Does sound like Shuffle to me. Even if you are not hitting the Shuffle (words at top of playlist), if you ever did, what that really did is just turn shuffle on.
Go play any song. Then tap center screen on the album. Another set of controls appears near top. Repeat, Progress and Shuffle. Blue is on, white is off.

Audiobooks play in random order

Hi,
I am having an issue (it's quite common, according to Google), where audiobooks appear to play in random order om the iPhone, while playing fine in iTunes.
I could not find any fix or workaround on the net, so I'm wondering if anybody here knows the answer. It appears to be some kind of bug in iTunes 9.x and iPhone 3.1, as the same audiobooks used to work fine before. And no, it's not just a question of turning shuffle off.
Thanks in advance,
Nike

I've only just bought into the iPhone so I'm not sure how it handled audiobooks before but it's possible that changes in the treatment of Album Artist or the number of discs field may be causing your problems. Using iTunes 9.0.2 with my 3.1.2 iPhone I find it groups the chapters of a multi-track audiobook together and in the right order, although sadly the chapter titles have been replaced with Part X of Y.
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tt2

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I have a simple slideshow comprised of about 10 images that fade in and out from one photo to the next. I'd like to be able to have them play in random order. How can I make this happen?

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My downloaded TV Shows are played in random order, how do i fix this?
Basically I have 10 complete seasons of Friends and I often watch it again and again but at the moment my itunes play my tv shows in random order!
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First, make sure you are running the latest version of iTunes on your computer. Update your Apple TV if you are using this as well.
Second, if the updates don't resolve it, you'll need to use 'Get Info' on each TV episode. Make sure the media type is 'TV Show'. Then make sure that the epside number and season information is entered properly.
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Playing tracks within a playlist in random order

I have many tracks in my iTunes, but very little of the music is entire albums, most of it is odd tracks from albums, downloaded tracks, and bits of radio recordings over the years. There are also a number of complete talking books on there.
This is all organised in 20+ playlists and works well, but what I would like is it to be able to play the tracks within one or more playlists in random sequence, so I don’t always get the tracks in the same order.
I have looked up “shuffle” but despite reading the help files several times, I can make little sense of it, and there is a thread here http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3922734&#3922734 that starts to answer it, but it suggests that (if I have read it correctly) that the shuffling is turned on in the iPod rather than in iTunes. I have a nano and the “Shuffle” option only has three options, Songs Albums, and Off. No mention of playlists.
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Thanks Meg - that does it. Fantastic. Marvelous.
So simple when someone has told you how to do it! I don't think I would call it intuitive though
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Albums playing out of order?

I'm using iTunes 12.1.2.27 on OS X 10.10.2.
Something very funny is happening. In album view, whenever I double-click on an album, it will play the tracks in a random order. If I double-click directly on the first song in the album, it will play that, but the following tracks are in a random order.
The only way I've found to play an album in the correct order is to either use the search and double-click on the album, or to click the play icon in album view.
What's up with this behavior? Why do albums not *always* play in order? These albums are properly tagged, with each track having the right track number.

Play a song.
Tap the artwork (center of screen while playing)
In menu that appears for Repeat, Progress, Shuffle, Genius....is shuffle on (blue means on, white is off).

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Don't use search to display then play items. Just use it to find them.
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From the Now Playing screen, tap the album cover to see the additional song controls. Makee sure the shuffle symbol on the right side under the scrubber bar is selected to "white".
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I searched and read the FAQ but couldn't get an answer that addresses this issue:
I've put my music on my new Zen V Plus (which I absolutely _love_!) and organized the songs into playlists. When I select a playlist and start it at the first song, however, the order of the songs that follow from there are *completely* random. If I go back and start again, it randomizes the playlist in a different -- random -- order. I've looked through all of the menus and can't find a "random" or "shuffle" setting to turn off. Is this normal? Am I missing some trick?
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Romerica --
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Album tracks playing in random order

I downloaded an album from iTunes today and when I went to play it, it's shuffling. I haven't asked it to. It's a Richard Hawley album. That guy doesn't even let you speak at his gigs. He'd go mental if he knew. I have checked on the "Get Info" tab, and each track is correctly listed in order. So why won't they play in order? Any ideas? Thanks

If the shuffle symbol is lit up blue then click again to turn it grey and turn off shuffle.
Otherwise what order are the tracks playing in? Is it consistent?
tt2

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How does one set music in a playlist to play in random order (is that the same as 'shuffle'?)
Within my various playlists I've set them all to be 'shuffle' by clicking on the shuffle button in the bottom-left of the itunes screen (the button turns blue to show it's been depressed). However, all the playlists still play in the default order. This also happens in the main music window.
I get so bored with the same old tune starting each time I switch my ipod on! (It happens in both my ipod classic and my iphone 3GS)
I'd also like to have my podcasts play automatically in the order they were added. Is that possible?
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How they play and how they are displayed in iTunes are two different things.
If Shuffle is turned On, the songs will play shuffled. If you sort on the first column (with the numbers), the songs will be sorted and displayed in the Shuffled order. (turn Shuffle off and on and songs will be displayed in different order)
If you sort on any other column, the playlist will still be displayed in that order but the song playing song will jump around.
If Shuffle is turned Off, songs will play in order of the column you are sorted on.

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I have tried adding audio books to my ipod classic, both by syncing and manually. The tracks come up in the right order in the menu but when listening they will often play (not always) in a random order. How do I overcome this, as it is making listening to books impossible. (Tarraganda)

I have found the problem myself when I got into the Settings. Somehow it had been put onto shuffle all music files and once I turned that off it reverted to normal. I realised something basic was wrong when our other ipod that had been synced at the same time didn't have a problem. However, I had put all the books on manually, one album at a time as problems occurred when syncing the whole library, including multiple albums for the same piece of music.

Tracks in album playing in random order

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