Songs keep repeating when I shuffle a playlist

Unfortunately I'm still getting the issue ..... just had one song play .... 5 songs later (with 2,000 track in My Music) the exact same song.

I did what Cahill suggested and I'm on my way home from work and the same songs are playing as what I listened to last night but a whole 24hrs later.

This is so frustrating. I like my music shuffled but spend half the time skipping to listen to something different!!

Hi there from what I'm seeing and what I have researched 9.3 does not mention a fix for the repeat shuffle. So I guess it's back to the ole drawing board, I'll be making a phone call to find out what happened? I don't want to stop using my ipod but this is very annoying smh. I recently upgraded to a Galaxy S7, maybe I'll have to use my S4 as an mp3 player at least I won't have to worry about a repetitive shuffle grrrrr!

So to all my fellow music lovers are you ready to make some phones calls? Maybe we should pick a day to call at the same time lol

On Thursday I put My Music on Shuffle All. Over the course of about 5 hours playing time I had about 30 or so of the same songs play more than once, including some which seemed to crop up about 4 or 5 times.

This is so sad!! I guess I will keep using Spotify. Its not a perfect system either but if I have to hear some repeats at least I get to have additional songs that I don't own. Mind blowing apple can't ( won't ) fix this. Thanks for the updates everyone!

Dear fellow shufflers,

Happy to see I am not alone with this issue. Drives me up the wall since a couple of months. Writing this down is just for therapeutic reasons. So, here I go...

Apple, for the love of God, please, please, please fix this issue!!!!!

Shuffling music is no rocket science, it has been done since the invention of the jukebox at the end of the 1900's. Please, please, please try to make this work again in your 21st century stuff.

If not for me, then fix it for the 1,000,000's of other Apple users. Help us close this shameful discussion.

Thanks,

Jeffrey Ottevanger

Just wanted to chime in that I've also been having this problem for close to a year now, before I even joined Apple Music. Yet another victim of a lousy Shuffle feature that Apple doesn't seem to care about fixing. I've sunk too much money into looking for another music player, I really hope they fix this before I die of old age.

Try telling Siri 'shuffle all my music' seemed to work for me.

That worked for me until I hit any other button in my Apple music player. I ran some tests this morning and as soon as I hit pause, skip, repeat or anything else my music started repeating just 3 or 4 songs later. It seems that any interference causes the songs in the Up Next list to lock up and the player will only play a shuffled mixture of the Up Next list of songs rather than a shuffled mixture of the entire playlist.

I have been having this same issue - I have 200 songs that I want to shuffle and only hear once, before running through all 200 songs again. The issue is sporadic, but what I've seen is that when it repeats a song and I open up the Song interface - the shuffle is highlighted grey (on) but so is the REPEAT (highlighted grey and on). The repeat button is non-responsive to touch, so it cannot be turned off. I have to close the music app, and start shuffling again. But it can happen right away, or a couple days later (where it starts repeating songs, and the REPEAT button is stuck in the ON position).

I have spoken with Apple Tech support several times. I have twice restored my iphone 6 (on OS 9.3.1) and that didn't solve it. Apple Tech then instructed me to wipe it and start as new (which is a real pain in the butt) but the Tech engineer thought that was the only way to make sure that if my music app was corrupted, that it would be a fresh new and uncorrupted version. I have done that twice. The problem still exists.

Tech also thought it could be due to the headphone controls (which I use to pause the music app and start the music app). But I have even seen it happen without headphone use. For example, the music app will be fine - I'll pause it, remove the headphones, check the app and verify that the REPEAT button is off, then a little while later - open the music app (without having plugged in the headphones), and the REPEAT button is on (greyed out) and non-responsive to touch. The only way to turn REPEAT off is to close the music app.

This is ridiculous. So those of you who were hoping that 9.3 would fix it - it hasn't. Like I said, I am on 9.3.1 and the problem still exists.

I've not had jhk's problem with the repeat button but I was a frequent complainer early in the string about the frequent repeating of songs and wanted to get this comment in the string (sorry jhk). I have to say the 9.3 update seems to have fixed that problem for me (so long as I don't turn the app or phone off and back on), at least through an eight hour day of listening. That's all I need since I use a smart list to purge played songs from my phone every night. Now I can go through my 5000 favorite songs one at a time, then start over.

I Had The Same Problem, I'm on an Ipod 5th generation, isos 9.3 i think. But I Believe I Solved My Problem, like everyone else I also like to shuffle my playlist and I'd get the same songs playing over and over again. Then I tried something and it hasn't repeated a song twice since then.

Here's What I Did:

See The 3 Lines with the 3 dots by the next button. Hit That it takes you to the "Up Next" screen.

The Next Thing I Did Was "Clear" The Up Next Songs And I Reshuffled My Playlist

And It Worked. No More Repeats.

Hope This Helps Ya'll

Hmmmmm! I tried that no luck. And here we are at 9.3.2 and still Apple did not fix the shuffle issue. I really love my iPod but I want a refund. This is crazy. I'm not happy.

WaitingWaitingWaiting is correct. It seems the real problem is that Apple Music can't be touched or interrupted without causing it to forget literally everything it's done so far, except perhaps remembering that it really wanted to play songs in a certain order, so it's going to go ahead and do that again just to be safe.

it's sad that this thread was started 10 months ago and it clearly is a widespread problem with every iOS device. yet apple still has yet to own up to it's problems and isn't doing anything to fix this. I was one of the original posters on this thread having come from another one about the same issue that was started before this, I bought a brand new iPhone 6s plus in december and even it has this issue... I will hook it up to my car which tracks which number song you are on in the "playlist" when on shuffle. it'll go through them but then back track. current example will be it'll be on 640 and then the next song in the order is 135, and then 641, 642, 643, 298, 644, 645, 94, 646... etc. fix your stuff apple!!!!!