shuffle on itunes 12.2 not working

Choose "Songs" not "Artists", "Albums", etc.

Pick a song and start playing.

Hit the title of the song near the bottom.

In the new screen, hit the Shuffle button.

iTunes 12.2 iPhone 6, iOS 8.4

Now I can't even go to "composers" and be able to shuffle songs within that category? HUH? And don't tell me I need to make a playlist every time I want to do this.

BRING SHUFFLE BACK, IN IT'S PREVIOUS FORM.

Is it me, or is every upgrade a step BACKWARDS in usability?

In responce to MikeD, I feel ya' brother; I was a little irritated a few months ago when I found out I couldn't get rid of the apple watch app on my phone. Now I'm down right ****** That I can't shuffle songs from different albums of the same artist. I think that was a bad, bad marketing move. PLEASE,PLEASE,PLEASE BRING BACK THE SHUFFLE OPTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi. I noticed the same thing and think I found a solution for shuffling songs per artist which may work for you as well. Posted the solution as a response here:

shuffle artists songs iTunes 12.2

Thank you so much for showing me how to get shuffle for artist; Still I can see people not ever knowing how to access that until apple made it more user friendly and easily accessible. this new iTunes could have have been designed much better than it is.

I was stuck on shuffle. Thanks this helped. It is a lot of steps just to turn shuffle off but I am glad that it worked. Now I can play my workout playlist in order... talking about muscle confusion!

I'm pretty sure everybody liked it when iTunes had that carousel "cover flow" way to view albums... NOW GONE.

I'm pretty sure everybody liked being able to double-click on a playlist and have it open a new iTunes window... NOW GONE.

I'm pretty sure everybody liked being able to shuffle songs easily, and being able to do so EASILY within artists, songs, composers, etc... NOW GONE.

Can anyone tell me why they keep doing stuff like this? Do they need to sacrifice certain functionality in order to add certain functionality? Is there anything we can do to bring these features back?

The shuffle feature and the lack of ease of use is very disappointing. Definitely a step back. 😠

All they care about is apple radio. This new version is not good big step back.

tap (touch) the image of the artist that is to the left of the artist's name while you're on the Artist Pane of My Music in the music player. This will start playback of the first track you have from that artist on your device. Then, to have that artist's music shuffled, go to the Now Playing screen and select the shuffle icon to begin shuffling the rest of their music..."http://forums.imore.com/apple-music/333427-shuffle-all-songs-within-artist.html"

it works and yes it is a pain in the ***,

not only have they complicated iTunes shuffle but the ability to shuffle genres is gone! I called Apple support and they couldn't get shuffle to work in genres. Apple only wants you to buy music from them but not listen to it the way you like.

I have a related but different question. I like to shuffle my songs and listen to them randomly on my iPhone-i shuffle them by song not album. Sometimes I might hear a song from shuffle but instead of going to the next shuffled song I might want to go to that album. In the previous version of itunes you just hit that icon up in the right hand corner and it flipped over showing all songs from the album that the randomly song came from.

How do you do that now? I see no way to do that.

I have a similar issue. I have standard and smart playlists that I manage - and I typically will open one of these up and hit the Shuffle button at the top of the list of songs within the playlist. When I do this with the latest version of iTunes on my iPhone or iPad - it will Randomly pick a song in my playlist - but will then proceed to play the rest of the playlist in order.

If I hit the Shuffle icon at the bottom of the now playing title - the icon highlights for a second - and then it unhighlights - and proceeds to play all of my titles in order.

I am beginning to be to believe that there is a connection with the very poor current iTunes operating system we now are suffering with and Apple, promoting (APPLE MUSIC). I am extremely annoyed with this and the Apple watch app you can"t get rid of. if these products are that good. they could stand on their own and not have to be crammed down our throats as well as being compromising as they are. I wish the developers would develop somthing more practical like products that more durable and water proof and please, please stop taking iTunes hostage.