Shuffle Song is not random enough

It is random, which is why it's not paying attention to whether or not you've played the songs latey.

There's nothing you can do except send Apple some feedback telling them you want shuffle to be less random (such as can be done in iTunes by going to "Preferences" --> "Playback."

Sorry.

Create a new smart playlist that says something like "Last played is not in last 2 days" and then shuffle play that instead.

...Hmmm? Does iTunes take in to account what songs the iPod has played? Therefore, will an iTines Smartlist work for ipod shuffle playback?

Tc

I don't think shuffle is random enough either. I'll get a song I played with the last 10 minutes and songs from the same album 3 times in a row even though there are hundreds of albums on my iPod. I just started making really big playlists and shuffling those instead, simple enough.

...Hmmm? Does iTunes take in to account what songs
the iPod has played? Therefore, will an iTines
Smartlist work for ipod shuffle playback?

If you're talking about a normal iPod, then yes. Part of the Autosync operation is to copy the last played times from the iPod into iTunes.

If you're talking about an iPod Shuffle, then no. The iPod Shuffle doesn't have a clock or a date/time, so it won't know what songs the iPod Shuffle has played recently.

Same problem here. 2500 songs in my iPod. After it has been recharged, the next day I will hear the same songs I heard the day before and the day before.

I hear the same artists a lot and the same albums but not the same song. Why? Cos I synch from Smart Folders which only contain songs which 'have NOT been played in the last 14 days'!

Smart folders are pretty clever, you can do pretty much everything with them.

Tc

this is simple probability. take another example;

if there is a lottery of 4 numbers, and you win with "1234", you are just as likely to win with "1234" the next week as you are with any other combination of numbers, providing the lottery is completely unbias.

the same principle can be applied to the iPod shuffling songs. there is no reason why a whole album cannot be played all in a row. obviously this is not likely, but completely possible.