Use Party Shuffle?
Go into Preferences > General and turn it on, if it was originally turned off.
Tried creating a playlist?
Hmm. Not really. I want to select the next song while the current one is playing. I would like to put a song in queue. Get it ready to play while the current is playing.
Yes Party shuffle it.
then right/ctrl click the song u wanna play next and choose "Play Next In Party Shuffle"
Yes, it will start playing at once, unless you are already playing songs from the Party Shuffle playlist, then the song you added will be - you guessed it - the next song played...Yes, but it will play right away. Sorry, but I want it to play after the current song playing. Am I missing something? I don't want to use Party Shuffle because strangely, I can't search other music with it like I want.
Why? Could you tell me why?
You mean something like "Play in iTunes DJ", "Play Next in iTunes DJ" or "Add to iTunes DJ"?I think whats missing here is, while I am playing a song from the entire library, I should be able to line up songs to play next by clicking on a song and clicking something like "play next in the queue".
iTunes DJ is the new name of the above mentioned Party Shuffle, BTW, and the feature has become a lot better in the couple of years since this thread was made...
I think whats missing here is, while I am playing a song from the entire library, I should be able to line up songs to play next by clicking on a song and clicking something like "play next in the queue". I dont want to make a playlist and i dont want to have a party, I just want to listen to song #2 once song #1 ends as i go through the list of songs (I pick my favorites on the fly and .. something like "this would be great to hear next"..)
Even windows media player allows you to queue songs from the library up for playing..
That is it! It has taken forever to get the point across! From the Entire Library! Right click! Play next!!
While your current song is playing, Right click and select "Play next in iTunes DJ". This will make it the first (0th) song in DJ as it is already playing. The next song you choose to "Play next in iTunes DJ" will be the next song you hear.
I, too, am looking for the ability to browse my library while a song is playing and pick the next 5 or 20 songs to play in that order, so I can go on about whatever else I want to do.
This is true, but the OP's request/workflow/need still isn't met. I totally get what he wants. An ad-hoc playlist out of the library, starting now, playing as he builds it. If you use DJ, each tune you pick to "Play next..." will go to the top of the play next queue, not be appended to it. So if you're playing Song1, add Song2, then add Song3, Song4, what you'll hear is Song1, Song4, Song3, Song2.
I, too, am looking for the ability to browse my library while a song is playing and pick the next 5 or 20 songs to play in that order, so I can go on about whatever else I want to do.
I couldn't find inket's application, but I did find an old applescript that is supposed to do the same thing.
However, it wasn't working and needed to be updated for iTunes 10. I have done so and the new script is available here:
5vforest (dot) net/files/PlayThisNext.zip
"Put this script in your iTunes Scripts folder. This is located in home > Library > iTunes. If there is no folder named "Scripts" there, create one and put the script in it. It will then appear in iTunes' Script Menu, where you can select it by clicking on its name.
While a track is playing, select another track and run this script. It is an applet whose generic script icon will appear in the Dock. It will wait for the current track to finish playing and then start playing the selected track, and then dismiss itself.
Play sequence will proceed from the selected track.
You can select the same track so that it plays again.
If you can't wait for the selected track to start playing, re-activate the script by clicking its icon in the Dock; it will start playing the selected track immediately and dismiss itself."
This is based on Doug Adam's original script. All credit to him where due, I just updated this as his script was no longer working.
That is it! It has taken forever to get the point across! From the Entire Library! Right click! Play next!!