'Shuffle All Songs' feature gone on iOS 8.4

Here is the thing –
If you are going to take a feature away or if you are going to change the
method with which your customers accessed a feature I would think it would be prudent
to provide the information to the customer to help them understand the changes
and give solutions to assist. In Apple’s typical arrogant way they don’t bother
… Why because they are banking on their product name and that the loyal base is
16 year olds with nothing better to do. Well most 16 yrs that I know don’t have
the allowance that provides them with being able to purchase a device that cost
almost $800 and even in contract you are still talking over $150. So that
leaves the actual customer base of adults that have jobs and take care of kids
and have lives so they don’t have the luxury to just hang out creating “playlists”
maybe the kids that work at Apple have hours and hours of time to explore a new
/ changed feature but the rest of us…Not so much. Apple does not have to go hours and days
without the money that is paid to them for the device and purchases why should
I and other consumers have to muddle through hours and days figuring out
features that we had and that worked. But more to the point where is the mindset
that thinks it’s OK to do these types of changes. I work in an IT dept and now have to post this fix to
900 device users …Why?

Keywal Humm!The ability to do what you are suggesting has been there all along and like 10 of thousands of other people I chose to tap on
one button to shuffle all my songs. And like those same 10’s of thousands of people I too have over 3,000 songs.

So let me get this correctly you think that spending hours upon hours of time creating play list are the way to go when all I had to do was tap on shuffle. How does that work, easier for me?

FreakyTeeth so each and everyone that ever purchased an iPhone / iPad has a Mac also… I’ve no
idea where I could have left my Mac, I don’t remember purchasing one but I’mold I could have forgotten [PS most of us have over the 5gigs of free space in music] Not everyone lives in the Apple universe

My understanding was the Thread was supposed to be for IOS 8.4 removing the shuffling feature in general so to me you would comment to the larger audience all people that have an iPhone and upgraded to IOS 8.4

Not just the people that have Mac's or Windows but the people that don't use iTunes at all other than downloading music

And yes, because I do work in IT I know that people Don't use iTunes to backup / general use of their Apple devices ( I send out e-mails every 3 months to tell them how)

Nope not frustrated at all at you (you just took it that way) but you did address the issue with the one solution of using a Mac to resolve how does that help the Windows users or for that matter the people that don't use either because you didn't include iTunes in general but iTunes on a Mac specifically

Your solution would help my 5 Mac users but what about my 890+ other users how would your solution help them? Perhaps I'm taking issue with how you wrote your solution not that you wrote a solution

Yep, I work in IT and if the solution does not or cannot address all of the affected users then how is it a truly viable solution?

Yeah this is ridiculous and should be Music app no brainers, stuff like this makes me lose a lot of faith in Apple. Simple stuff:

I DON'T WANT to have to select a song in order to shuffle all songs. The point of shuffle is to be completely random.

Tracks I've marked as "Skip When Shuffling" should NOT play when I'm shuffling my music. You'd think a simple checkbox would do what is says it does.

Here's the easiest way. You will notice that the shuffle symbol will appear and work in your playlists. For now, until Apple realizes they have crippled us - simply go into iTunes and create a playlist and add all of your music to it. Open the playlist after your next sync and hit the shuffle symbol like you used to before Apple screwed up the design of the new player. Hopefully the ghost of Steve Jobs will come to them in the night and convince them of the error in their design causing them to fix it.

All hail Steve Jobs! May the glory that was his vision and creativity be passed down to someone in the company. Can I get an amen?

This feature has been re-added in iOS 9: http://www.mcelhearn.com/ios-9-music-app-to-bring-back-shuffle-all-feature/

AMEN!!

FINALLY!!!! Thanks for the information!!

But does it actually shuffle all songs?

(In iOS 8.4, not 9) I've followed all of the directions - going to the song view, going to a song, making sure shuffle is 'highlighted'. However, even then, I've found that it *isn't* shuffling my entire library. It IS pooling from it, but it doesn't go through the whole thing. The first time I tried it, it stopped about maybe less than halfway through it (no way to tell anymore, since the "_ of _" songs is also removed. >.> ), like it had gone through the whole library. I had to press the play button and it reset the shuffle. The last time I tried it (last night) at some point, the shuffle randomly reset and was playing songs I had just heard.

I'm really frustrated with this. Even the 'solution' isn't a proper shuffle. Apple really messed this up.

As mentioned here in this article, we have iOS 9 beta 3 with Shuffle All option: http://ios9news.net/ios-9-brings-shuffle-all-songs-option/

Still no option to shuffle Apple music though! 😐

I'm having the SAME issue. My only issue with music App was is never pulled Purchased music Folder correctly and rotation to landscape always gave a million albums instead of showing what was playing. And now BOTH are still not even working or relevant in Apples eyes. What is the point of shuffling only one album? There's not a good reason to remove this function. Did they even test this Beta Music App before pushing it out? I'm resorting to go back to a paid app called CarTunes and Groove App.

It's bad enough they push their Apple Music on us, delete our whole entire library off the phones, throw it ALL in the cloud (ya no thanks) and expect us to be okay with mediocre songs they replaced the songs with because they can't find the exact match (since the metadata doesn't match). I had it replace a song called "Move Along by American Rejects" with the Live version of the same song. It wasn't the same at all. Eats up data not needed to be used over Cellular and you can't just delete the song completely out of the phone. This is just ridiculous! Please stop with the stupid Cloud services all ready!!! I'm over it! I want my music to always be housed locally, ALWAYS.

So, question, how do you become a beta tester? Do you have to be a programmer?

I would have to second that last comment. I don't want to use my data (that is never unlimited anymore) and wait for it to buffer. I will download it to my phone, every time!