iTunes 8 starting shuffle in grid view?

[iamvexed]

So I'm pretty happy with iTunes 8, but more often than not, I just open iTunes and press play. Since shuffle is turned on, I get a nice mix of songs that is almost never the same.

I really like the grid view. Something new, and it's far easier to handle than cover flow.

Here's the problem. When I open iTunes, I can't just press play and have it start shuffling. It just starts at the first song of the first album. If I hit next, it goes to the next song on that album. If, however, I switch to list view, and hit play (upon opening iTunes), it shuffles just as normal, even if I switch back to grid view.

Anyone know how to get it to start shuffling in grid view?

Thanks in advance!

 

[North Bronson]

This is driving me nuts, too.

I'm used to just leaving iTunes open in the MiniPlayer with album shuffle. If I press Option-Left, it gave me a random album. This was great.

 

[iamvexed]

This is driving me nuts, too.

I'm used to just leaving iTunes open in the MiniPlayer with album shuffle. If I press Option-Left, it gave me a random album. This was great.

And it then played the album start to finish?

 

[Benjy UK]

I'm with you dude...I've been searching and don't think its possible! Which is a shame as I don't like the list view, and coverflow isn't really that great either IMO!

Contact Apple time..? haha.

 

[North Bronson]

And it then played the album start to finish?

I always left shuffle set to 'Albums' instead of songs. It's always felt kind of like having a big CD carousel on my computer -- which I prefered to randomizing over songs.

 

[ect0plasm]

Weeeeelllllllll…

Well, it seems a number of people are reporting this as a bug.
I'm of the opinion it isn't a bug at all and it's just the way Apple decided to roll out the new iTunes to push its new features.

If I had my way there would be a simple way to select to shuffle 'albums' or 'all', maybe via keystroke as well as button or checkbox.

(somewhat off topic: Buuut yea, i wish the macbook/mbp remote had a shuffle button on it.. more than fixing an issue like this. I think I can probably fix that with a 3rd party remote app.)