Why is Random/Shuffle playing only a limited subset of songs?

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Why is Random/Shuffle playing only a limited subset of songs?

For no reason that I can discern, the Random function is playing only from a small number of songs -- mainly ones I added today and yesterday. I noticed this because I have a custom "Shuffle" playlist that I've used for years and today I dumped about 125 new songs into my music library. All I was hearing was the new songs. When I quit the playlist and went directly to my library, with Random still selected, no matter what song I started with the queue would still contain only the new songs.

When I turn the random function off everything plays in the order it should.

I have a huge library -- over 25,000 files. Have I hit the limit that Random can deal with? (Just kidding, I don't really think that's it.)

I've tried trashing com.apple.iTunes.plist in Preferences and restarting the computer, which made no difference. I've turned off the Remote app on my iPad, which I often use to control playback. Beyond that I'm stymied.

Cary

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2), 16 GB RAM

Posted on Apr 3, 2015 9:31 PM

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Chris CA

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Apr 3, 2015 10:20 PM in response to Cary Wolfson

Do all songs have a check mark in iTune?

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Cary Wolfson Author

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Apr 3, 2015 10:10 PM in response to Cary Wolfson

As a follow-up, I tried reinstalling iTunes. No change. Then I tried editing my playlist so that it didn't include any songs added after last month, which resulted in it coming to a grinding halt after playing whatever song I selected.

Now, in fact, when I try to play anything from a playlist I can only play one song. Clicking on the "Up Next" queue brings up the message "No upcoming songs."

Curiouser ...

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