How do I disable "up next" on itunes 11 (or at least make it play the next song in my playlist and not some random one)

ITunes 10 was great and I heard nothing but horror stories about 11 so I didn't upgrade until I got my new computer and pushed my music over. In fact, I accidentally hit update and disconnected my computer from the Internet to stop it from happening, but was too late and now I'm stuck with it.

When I play a song and the song ends, instead of playing the next song on the list, it plays some random other song. When I "clear list," iTunes doesn't play anything at all. What gives? What happened to the greatest media player? As a pro audio engineer, I've got over 150Gb of music and this just doesn't fly. I HAVE to have my music in order and if iTunes can't do that, what is its purpose?

Help, please.

MacBook Pro

Posted on Feb 5, 2013 8:29 PM

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dhuber

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Posted on Oct 5, 2016 9:22 PM

Ok, so I figured out the solution to my problem (after about a year of dealing with this). Maybe this will help you, too. My problem was that only some of my songs have check marks next to them. In the song view, there is a column with a check mark at the top. For some reason, only a small subset had check marks next to them. It turns out that the songs with check marks are the ones that are considered for the up next list. So if you are having this problem, look at your check marks and make sure all of your songs have them. To check multiple songs, select them all, and then use control-click on any song.

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Nov 8, 2016 11:42 AM in response to PstrBrian

Wow, that one worked for me. Why have a hidden shuffle button? Grrr!

Thank you!!

Apr 15, 2017 11:56 AM in response to nick backstage

I have found the definitive solution!!!

1. Select all songs in your library

2. Go to "Options", select "Skip when shuffling"

3. Click "OK"

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How do I disable "up next" on itunes 11 (or at least make it play the next song in my playlist and not some random one)