Does it really randomize the songs? I clicked on a song yesterday, and had some songs going before I turned it off. Tonight I click on the same song and I'm pretty sure the same songs in the same order are playing again. I think shuffling just switches up the order, but it still has a set playlist. I may be late on this or I missed something, but does anyone else agree?
The iTunes "Shuffle"
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Jordan the Nerd
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I think thats happened a few times to me, weird.
backsidetailsli
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yeah this happens to me all the time. pretty lame.
J the Ninja
macrumors 68000
Computers are not capable of random behavior. Never will be as they are made today. Period. And once that changes, we'll probably get terminators, so you don't want that. All they can do now is some crazy math that makes it look like they're behaving randomly. Sometimes it doesn't work quite right.
Imagine something like The Terminator happened. "At least ours songs are being shuffled properly."
Ivan P
macrumors 68030
It's just the way iTunes is; if you select the first track in the shuffled playlist, it thinks that you want the tracks to be played in the same order. Select any other track and it will automatically re-shuffle (this happens even if you close iTunes and then reopen it, as it saves the latest track order).
To re-randomise the tracks, starting with that certain track, make sure it's playing and then turn shuffle off and back on, or start playing another track in the playlist then restart the desired track. Inconvenient I know, but it seems to be the only way around it.
RaisingCajun
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Happens to me all the time also. You would think that this would be an easy fix. I guess it is not.