How do I turn shuffle off on iPod touch?

Many thanks for pointing that out Ken. That shuffle feature has been driving me mad for weeks now. One shouldn't have to resort to googling an answer to something that should be intuitive. I wonder even if Apple monitor these forums in order to improve their products? I doubt it.

Thank you, Ken for explaining the steps. Even now, a couple years later and I had this exact question. I tried all sorts of things like resyncing library from iTunes, etc. only to find it is a hidden little icon on the album art. In my case the shuffle icon has two states, gray (off) or orange (on) and looks like a couple of arrows crossing over each other.

Hopefully you have already found the answer to this. See Ken's solution above.

"you have to bring up the album art of the piece that's currently playing, then tap the screen, then the icons that control playlist order appear. If an icon is blue the function is on, if white it's off."

thanks so much - my iPod Touch is different. The controls for shuffle are on the bottom of the screen and not in color but, yes, you have to click on the picture of the album and there they are. I looked and looked on the iPod and couldn't figure out what to do. Thanks so much!!

Glad I found this. The iPod was heading for the wall otherwise!

Only my active controls are orange, not blue.

I listen mainly to classical music - which iPod doesn't seem to know about. For example, to select a symphony to be played, you can't just import it from a CD: each movement then becomes a 'song' and gets listed individually. I've been laboriously renaming all 4 movement tracks to the symphony title (e.g. 'Mozart Sym#40'). Then I can select 'Mozart Sym#40' on the iPod album list and get the whole symphony.

But then iPod, in its wisdom, decides I want by default to shuffle 'songs', so I might get movement #3, then #1, then #4, then #2 ! Why doesn't iPod have its usual slick design and allow you to set defaults for classical music users: i.e. play all albums in track order, i.e. no shuffling; set album=the title of a multi-movement work during import. Settings, Music lets you turn on 'Shake to Shuffle' ..... why not a 'Shuffle on-off' option?

Does anyone know a quick (preferably default for all albums) way to turn Shuffle off?

I inherited my daughters old ipod touch and over 3 years after this thread was started, I too had the same question. I agree that turning off Shuffle should not be buried. I own all Apple products now and can usually figure these things out. Thanks Ken for finding the answer to this!

Hopefully you have already found the answer to this. See Ken's solution above.

"you have to bring up the album art of the piece that's currently playing, then tap the screen, then the icons that control playlist order appear. If an icon is blue the function is on, if white it's off."

Year later I had the same problem - a great fix

Richard, did you ever find a way to KILL shuffle? Please advise.

If you are talking about shake to shuffle, from the Users Guide:

You can turn Shake to Shuffle on or off in Settings > Music (it’s on by default).

Thanks Ken - you solved quite a frustrating (albeit First World!) problem for me! 😀

Thank you Ken. I would never have worked that out. I can now listen to audio books!

Thank you for this, it's been driving me crazy!!! thanks to you, i'm happily listening to my music in the order I want;)