Songs keep repeating when I shuffle a playlist

Ya all of my songs are checked off too... The only thing I can figure out is in settings there used to be an option to turn on or off "continue playback where left off" that option is still under the video settings but looks to be removed from music. Thats the only reason I can see for it misbehaving like this. What bothers me is that because not many people are talking about this problem it probably won't be fixed by apple.

Well it looks like there is a new update, but it so far doesn't appear to have fixed the issue we all are having... Nice ti see apple focus solely on the popular problems and not ALL of them! Just because there isn't that many of us complaining about it they don't seem it a real issue. Thanks for noticing apple.

I know right. It's super frustrating I want to give apple a chance to fix this, cause seems like such a easy/logical fix. As much as I want to like Apple Music I can see myself going back to Spotify very, very soon.

Experiencing this same issue. Have tried toggling restart, toggling REPEAT on / off. Nothing seems to work. Oddest thing about all of it is that the song replays at totally random intervals. It just restarts right in the middle of a track. Thus far my user experience with the relatively new Apple Music has been a real bummer. So unintuitive and buggy.

This is still an issue. I've actually gone to either Shuffling ALL music because it makes repeats less likely or just playing albums/playlists front to back because Shuffle is so broken. I accidentally left Shuffle on today when listening to an album. I pulled up the "Previous/Next" list and it had songs on the album both as played and upcoming, even though Repeat was not on.

I hope Apple fixes Shuffle.

I’m having the same problem and haven’t found any solutions, I hope more people will post on here to get recognition so Apple can stop making the music section so horrible. Literally every update worsens the music and makes it less enjoyable, I wish they’d leave it alone for once and keep it the way it was. If it isn’t broken, don’t try and fix it...

this needs more attention and more people complaining about it! I totally agree that they shouldn't have changed something that worked! Apple needs to fix it now and stop screwing us over! Please spread the word and keep this thread alive so we can get this fixed!

As far as I can tell, there are two problems.

The first is that when shuffling, whether it's all music or a playlist, the Shuffle seems to lose its place and circle back to an early point, playing songs you've already heard in an order you've already heard.

The second is that Shuffle doesn't seem to care what's already been played at all. I Shuffled all Local H music and songs I'd already heard kept popping back up, as if Shuffle chose every single next song at random and didn't take note of what was already heard. It may be more random, but true Shuffle, like in cards, doesn't repeat. It orders things randomly and then plays them consecutively without repeating them.

Jarathen you are totally right that's a great summation of our problems. However there's a third problem with this which you didn't mention and isn't really related to shuffle. It's the fact that the music doesn't pick up from where you last left off. So if you pause and walk away for say 5 hours and come back it'll restart the song and start a new rotation of the shuffle instead of continuing the song and shuffle list where it last was. So unless you're listening to music non stop your playlist will at some point get reswapped

Very much so. The app seems to lose your place and restart from the home page if you're away from it, or at best a song is back at zero seconds even if you're well into it.

Apple Music in 8.4 and post is pretty rough.

THANK YOU! Finally someone answered the question I had! I normally don't see the "now playing" screen, just the screen with the play list and couldn't figure out why it kept repeating the same song over and over again after I clicked the shuffle button.

I did some light shuffle testing last night and didn't encounter any of this problem. I am testing it again, more thoroughly, today.

The Music app has definitely been nipped and tucked in various areas. The app definitely feels more appropriate to the feel of iOS, and I'm crossing my fingers I can properly shuffle again.

I ran a 45 song playlist and found it was mostly fine, but like five songs played at the end that had already played, though not in order. Now I'm playing a 100-song playlist to see what shakes out. I'd love a full fix, but at this point I'd accept improvement.

The problem is sporadic, for sure. Sometimes it plays the same artist several times in a row, causing me to check my settings; the program should be smart enough to randomize the artists. There are dozens in this playlist. Whatever... First World problems. Just thought I'd add my voice to the small chorus, for what it's worth.