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Apr 17, 2006, 06:55 PM
 
this is probably been asked 420 times, but can you shuffle through playlists?
I like my lists but dont want to hear the same order all the time, neither i have the time to manually suffle things up.

Any ideas?
Thnx

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Apr 20, 2006, 03:38 AM
 
go to settings, shuffle, songs...play one song on your playlist and it should shuffle throughout that playlist.
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Apr 20, 2006, 03:40 AM
 
You can also scroll through your playlists, and then when you would click the middle button, just hit play instead.
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Apr 21, 2006, 09:07 PM
 
sorry guys neither technique worked. keeps playing song #1from the list, and would jump sequentially to 2, 3, 4...
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Apr 21, 2006, 09:08 PM
 
Are you trying to shuffle playlists, or songs within a playlist?
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Apr 21, 2006, 11:13 PM
 
uhhh...youre not doing something right.

starting from the main menu....

scroll to settings and click the middle button...

scroll to shuffle and click the middle button once so that it displays songs...(not albums)

then press menu to get out of the settings menu...

find the playlist you wanna play...

select any song and it should start with that song and shuffle throughout the rest of the list (you should see a shuffle icon on your ipod screen while in shuffle mode...its small, but its there)

if this does not work, your ipod probably has a defect but i usually tend to blame the fiddler not the fiddle.
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Apr 22, 2006, 02:34 AM
 
Originally Posted by iREZ
uhhh...youre not doing something right.

starting from the main menu....

scroll to settings and click the middle button...

scroll to shuffle and click the middle button once so that it displays songs...(not albums)

then press menu to get out of the settings menu...

find the playlist you wanna play...

select any song and it should start with that song and shuffle throughout the rest of the list (you should see a shuffle icon on your ipod screen while in shuffle mode...its small, but its there)

if this does not work, your ipod probably has a defect but i usually tend to blame the fiddler not the fiddle.

The fiddle is fine, the fiddler was a little out-of tune! Thanks man, i am shuffling my mojo as i type. Thanks.
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Apr 30, 2006, 07:31 AM
 
Btw, it will always start with song "#1" but it won't always be the same song when you're shuffling. It's just the iPod's way of letting you know where you are by how many songs are in the current list you're playing.
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