Hi guys/gals,
Am obviously a newbie ‘round here. Been reading the forums for a long time, and have a curious problem that I’m hoping someone here might be able to help with. I’ve tried to Google the problem and read a bit over at the Apple Discussions boards, but haven’t found a match...so here I am.
I’ve already seen an “Apple Genius” in person for this issue, and he hadn’t seen the problem before; he even handed off my iPhone to others in the store who had iPhones, they’d never seen it either. Here’s the deal:
First, the specs: new white MacBook 2.2GHz 2GB RAM 10.5.1, 8GB iPhone (latest firmware), and 5G white iPod 30GB.
Since it’s Christmastime, I figured it was time to take the 137 Christmas songs in my iTunes library and put them on my iPhone/iPod as I do every year. No problems there. I made a Smart Playlist to grab by Genre “Holiday” and “Jazz” (like the Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack, it’s labeled as Jazz); from there I dragged the Christmas songs I wanted to a new regular playlist I labeled “Christmas,” as I do every year.
The issue is that I cannot shuffle this playlist. Not in iTunes, not on the iPhone, not on the iPod.
When I select a song, any song, in the playlist, the iPhone/iPod readout will say “56 of 137” or “101 of 137.”
Should I decide to shuffle from any song in the playlist, the readout gives me “1 out 7.” Not 1 out of 137.
I can choose ANY song in the playlist; the first song, the last song, any song in the middle of the playlist...and instead of shuffling all 137 songs, I continually get the “1 out of 7” readout.
All of the 137 songs in the playlist are there; on the iPhone and iPod as well as in iTunes, I played the playlist in order, in real time, just to make sure the devices all “knew” the songs were there. I’ve deleted the same playlist over & over, recreated everything, and still I can’t get the MacBook or iPod/iPhone to shuffle these songs. No matter what I do, the playlist will only shuffle 7 songs...not the entire 137 songs in the playlist.
Am I total doofus that I’m missing something VERY obvious? (This is likely!) Or have any of you run in to this kind of thing before? The Apple “Genius” suggested a Restore on my iPhone, but what good will that do? This still happens in iTunes and on the iPod.
I do have my music backed up on DVD, so the only thing I can think of is trying to delete all those songs and re-import them into iTunes...maybe something’s corrupt. I dunno.
Help! Anyone? Thanks in advance...love this forum.
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