Songs keep repeating when I shuffle a playlist

The number of upcoming songs is listed in the Cesium screen that is beyond the main player screen. Just tap the icon below the play button to see the upcoming songs list as well as the previously played list. The songs should take up where you left off, though occasionally Cesium loses track lately. Generally not more frequently then once every couple of weeks. Still no repeats though.

One thing I didn't realize for a while is that Amazon Prime comes with a music app. And guess what? It actually shuffles properly!! What's also great is you can download a lot of songs that already comes with your subscription. Not a bad alternative at all if you already have Prime.

I think I've figured out an alternate option. I have over 2,500 songs on my phone and seeing the same ones in the queue after I've purposely skipped them is maddening! After reading several of these comments I went into the Songs folder. In the top right-hand corner there's a red "Sort" option. I noticed that mine was sorting songs by Artist rather than Song Title. I switched it and now I'm seeing new songs! Literally just did it though so only time will tell if that's the issue we've all been encountering.

Slainte.

I have the same problem. I have a playlist with eight hours of music. Every time I played it shuffle, I seem to hear kind mostly the same songs over and over again. It looks Like if the algorithm doesn't work nicely. For sure it doesn't appear like pure random to me. And I agree, it is to be better in the previous music apps of Apple.

Occasionally, and some circumstances, the shuffle button does not even work. I press it, and it flashes red, and then goes back to unpressed.

OK. I did some testing with my new phone today & you're right - internet access has nothing to do with it

what's worrying, though, is that it definitely did on iOS 9

I only bought my new phone a couple of weeks ago & until then this only ever happened when I connected to the internet

did some testing yesterday with my new iPhone 7 Plus & it happens all the time! They actually made it worse in iOS 10!!

I also had this issue. Just this morning, May 25, 2017, I pressed shuffle on my playlist that has 1400 songs. Fields of Gold comes on. Great, I like this song. 3 songs later, Fields of Gold again. Okay, I just heard it, whatever, I'm busy making breakfast for my kids so I let it play. 2 songs later, Fields of Gold. Okay what the F Apple, there's 1400 songs to choose from and I get Fields of Gold 3 times in 30 minutes. I've known about this for months, but today was the breaking point.

I thought about it for a while, and figured out how to get around it. In your smart playlist, there's a criteria that you can add around Last Played. You can set it to "is not in the last" x days. I set it to 7 days, so hopefully I won't hear the same song very often.

adding this criterion to a smart playlist doesn't work on mobile devices as they only seem to update when you sync

at least, it didn't work for me. Think I'm gonna start a new thread asking for alternative Music app recommendations

I'm not sure how you can see it on your iPod, but in iTunes you can right-click on one of the header fields on your playlist (Name, Time, Artist, Genre, etc) and a checklist will appear with all of the potential fields you can add to get more information on each song. Scroll down to Last Played and select, and it will show you the last time you played that song.

As an update to my "fix" above - it doesn't always work on mobile devices as Sam Miami points out, but somehow I feel it works better. I have an old iPhone that I keep in my house to only play music from, and it doesn't store any songs on it, only connecting wirelessly to iTunes. When the connection is bad, it repeats songs often, when the connection is good, it doesn't seem to.

On the now playing screen there's a repeat icon to the right of the shuffle icon. Uncheck/unhighlight that and it will stop after the shuffle is done.

Same problem. It was nice at first because I really like these particular songs, but it's getting ridiculous.

I think I figured it out. My songs shuffle but do not repeat the same songs now. The shuffle and repeat should be grey. I've attached a picture. Don't judge me by my my music. 🙂

We should all submit complaints via- https://www.apple.com/feedback/ as well.

Follow link Play, pause, and shuffle music in the Music app - Apple Support

Any new updates on this issue? any one find any fixes?

It still happens. You just get lucky sometimes. I played 7 songs just now and songs #3 and #7 were the same. Ridiculous.