Ken Spiker

Q: How do I turn shuffle off on iPod touch?

Simple as that. I can't find it anywhere on my iPod Touch. It appears to be always in shuffle mode. I searched the discussions as most posts are from 2 to 6 years ago and describe a menu that is different from mine. Obviously the Shuffle button at the top of the playlist only shuffles, never unshuffles.

Thanx

Mac Pro 2.66 GHz, Mac OS X (10.5.1)

Posted on Jun 1, 2011 5:13 PM

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  • by lllaass,

    lllaass lllaass Jun 1, 2011 5:22 PM in response to Ken Spiker
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    Jun 1, 2011 5:22 PM in response to Ken Spiker

    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).

  • by Ken Spiker,Solvedanswer

    Ken Spiker Ken Spiker Jun 2, 2011 9:12 AM in response to lllaass
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    Jun 2, 2011 9:12 AM in response to lllaass

    No, it's not about 'shake to shuffle.' That's off. I just meant how to turn off shuffle on a playlist. I dug down through the forums and found the answer; 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. Now that's not at all like the usual intuitive interface that the iPod is famous for. The control should be at the top of the playlist, not buried under individual tunes in my opinion. (I'm bringing this up because apparently lots of people ask this question on these forums.)  

  • by rommy7,Helpful

    rommy7 rommy7 Jul 13, 2012 8:02 AM in response to Ken Spiker
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    Jul 13, 2012 8:02 AM in response to Ken Spiker

    Year later I had the same problem - a great fix

  • by Puzzling,

    Puzzling Puzzling Apr 2, 2013 11:30 AM in response to Ken Spiker
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    Apr 2, 2013 11:30 AM in response to Ken Spiker

    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.

  • by Kakuji,

    Kakuji Kakuji May 6, 2013 3:43 PM in response to Ken Spiker
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    May 6, 2013 3:43 PM in response to Ken Spiker

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

     

    Only my active controls are orange, not blue.

  • by richard_2013,

    richard_2013 richard_2013 May 21, 2013 10:33 AM in response to Ken Spiker
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    May 21, 2013 10:33 AM in response to Ken Spiker

    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?

  • by pmguyre,

    pmguyre pmguyre Jan 10, 2014 6:17 AM in response to richard_2013
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    Jan 10, 2014 6:17 AM in response to richard_2013

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

  • by CraigMc66,

    CraigMc66 CraigMc66 Jan 17, 2014 1:49 AM in response to Ken Spiker
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    Jan 17, 2014 1:49 AM in response to Ken Spiker

    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.

  • by Nicola8,

    Nicola8 Nicola8 Apr 16, 2014 7:36 PM in response to Ken Spiker
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    Apr 16, 2014 7:36 PM in response to Ken Spiker

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

  • by Val790,

    Val790 Val790 Apr 26, 2014 12:55 AM in response to Ken Spiker
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    Apr 26, 2014 12:55 AM in response to Ken Spiker

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

  • by NVCN6,

    NVCN6 NVCN6 Oct 20, 2014 5:16 AM in response to Ken Spiker
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    Oct 20, 2014 5:16 AM in response to Ken Spiker

    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!

  • by NVCN6,

    NVCN6 NVCN6 Oct 20, 2014 5:16 AM in response to richard_2013
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    Oct 20, 2014 5:16 AM in response to richard_2013

    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."

  • by NVCN6,

    NVCN6 NVCN6 Oct 20, 2014 5:17 AM in response to pmguyre
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    Oct 20, 2014 5:17 AM in response to pmguyre

    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."

  • by jcs8011,

    jcs8011 jcs8011 Oct 21, 2015 7:37 AM in response to Ken Spiker
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    Oct 21, 2015 7:37 AM in response to Ken Spiker

    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;)

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