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Freezing the play order of a shuffled iTunes playlist

[Ölbaum's Delirium] The problem with shuffled playlists in iTunes is that if I quit iTunes at the end of the day, relaunch it the next day and want to resume playing the same playlist where I left it, iTunes will shuffle it again, meaning I'm likely to hear songs I already heard the day before. On the other hand, if I turn shuffle off, it will sort the songs in the order I put them when I created the playlist, which is likely to be in Artist/Album order since this is how I browse my library when making a playlist.

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[bryanstrawser.com] Mansions of the Lord: iTunes has the song recorded by the Glee Club from West Point - and that's the version that cropped up tonight on my iPod as it shuffled through the playlist.

[Legends of the Sun Pig - Martin Sutherland's Blog] iPod Coping Strategies (Gadget Fever): However dreadful, this is the option I've settled on for the moment. The way I work with iTunes is that whenever I import a new album, I create a new playlist for it, tagged with the year in which I bought it, artist name, and album title (e.g.

[Ryan McReynolds] iTunes: Having ripped most (but not yet all) of my CDs to my iBook's hard drive, rated most (but not yet all) of the tracks, and set up a series of overlapping smart playlists to get a random mix that favors good music being played more frequently, I am now really enjoying listening to music a lot more often than I used to. I have an automatically-updated playlist of 25 shuffled songs at any given time: five random 5-star songs not played in the last three days, ten random 4-star songs not played in the last week, and ten random 3-star songs not played in the last two weeks.

[tremble.com: scared of dying, scared of living] HOW TO HOLD A GRUDGE: Whenever a track from Blueberry Boat rears its ugly geometric head on some shuffled playlist, I feel like I'm hearing the definitive argument argument against my particular tastes in music. I am reluctant ever again recommend a record – like say, for instance, the new Stars album, Set Yourself on Fire (which is so excellent even if each successive listening makes me seven percent more gay) – for fear that someone will pounce on me with, "Oh?

[Blog.benday.com] iTunes random (shuffled) playlists aren't very random & the ...: Have you ever noticed that when you do a shuffled (random) playlist in iTunes or Windows Media Player that it plays a lot of the same songs over and over again? Well, I noticed and it started to bug me because I knew that I had lots of good music that I wasn't ever hearing.

[Ithink.ch] Ölbaum’s Knowledge Base: Freezing the play order of a shuffled ...: The problem with shuffled playlists in iTunes is that if I quit iTunes at the end of the day, relaunch it the next day and want to resume playing the same playlist where I left it, iTunes will shuffle it again, meaning I’m likely to hear songs I already heard the day before. On the other hand, if I turn shuffle off, it will sort the songs in the order I put them when I created the playlist, which is likely to be in Artist/Album order since this is how I browse my library when making a playlist.

[Sunpig.com] Legends of the Sun Pig - Martin Sutherland's Blog: With director Chris Nolan at the helm, this film does a great job of exploring that side of the character, and giving it equal weight with the action story, which is, incidentally, also driven by very human motives of greed and power, rather than gratuitous insanity and fancy costumes. Even the production design is gritty and down-to-earth, inasmuch as it can be with locations like Wayne Manor and the Batcave.