Songs keep repeating when I shuffle a playlist

Agreed. This stinks. I listened to a playlist with over 500 songs over an hour and the same 5 -10 songs played at least 2 times each.

I have this same issue with not cycling through the entire playlist (555 songs) before repeating. It started happening the update before last. it is driving me crazy considering I purchased all of these songs and have always been able to trust that it cycles though all 500+ songs. It is totally driving me crazy!!! I don't know why Apple had to screw around with something that was working fine. Totally disgusted!!!

So we are at 6 pages in the forum and there's quite a few individuals with this problem.... When will apple actually acknowledge that there's a problem?

It is my hope that Bob Maguire, who has surely given this issue more attention than Apple has, will find his bug report successful. He's also figured out a workaround that, while not ideal, requires four button presses and then allows you to enjoy Shuffle the way you once did before. And it's a far sight better than our other option before (you know, NO OPTION).

Ooh whow I am not the only one with this problem. It's annoying me from the start of Apple Music (Before that i used Spotify).

I have a playlist with 200 or so songs in it (Feel free to listen to it btw) but the music app keeps giving me the same numbers and it are always the same song witch come back 😟 . Hate it. lets hope apple is going to fix this.

(I am on 9.2 Closed beta now, but it's there from the Start of Apple Music)

Adding one more voice to this chorus, not that it will make a difference. I had been using a refurbished iPod Nano till it finally died on me last month, so I caved and switched to the Music app on my iPhone 5s. This lack of control is ridiculous, and Apple is so convinced its UX designers and developers know what we want that it's now their way or the highway. All I want is to be able to reorder my songs one time, and then treat that as a static playlist. It can't be THAT complicated to keep something working the way it already was. For years. *sigh*

you suck apple... fix this problem.

I don't know how people are saying it used to be great. I've got an older iPod Touch still on iOS 6. It has NEVER shuffled correctly. I'm dealing with it still. I have a Christmas playlist that contains all single songs and albums of Christmas music. There are 39 albums and over 200 songs represented. Not only do I hear the same songs over and over, but I'm only hearing songs from about 4 albums in the playlist. It is infuriating - and it has ALWAYS been like that when I try to use shuffle. 😠

I can't even find check boxes for my songs anymore. How did you do that??

That's strange to me. My son uses my old iPod Touch from early 2011 and it shuffles flawlessly every time. It's stuck on iOS 6.

Mine is a fourth generation iPod Touch, and every year I try to shuffle my Christmas playlist (it's the only "repeating" one I have) I get the same thing. It's even more distinct - it basically shuffles songs out of four of the 39 albums, and EVERY NOW AND THEN a random one from another album. But 90% of the time it is out of those four, and many times it will be 2 or 3 songs out of the same album back to back. I do not have that issue on iTunes on my computer - I'm just running 10.7.5 on that. I've checked everything I can think of - all songs are checked to be played. I'll even manually skip songs and it is still stuck on those same albums!! It's very frustrating - to the point where I end up stopping the shuffle play and just pick and album and cycle through them. 😟

Hello everyone I had this same issue. Easy fix just turn the repeat option off. It plays the same song 35 times cuz somehow it was set on repeat(1). That's all you have to do. Thanks

That's no help. My repeat is always off for the playlist, which is over 1000 songs. I'm currently playing the playlist now which is playing songs I heard yesterday. I guarantee I did not hear 1000 songs since yesterday. What is apple's problem? Not only is this a stupid issue that apple needs to fix, but apple also needs to add an option to playlists to let you resume where you left off. Meaning that if I leave a playlist to play a particular song/album, I should have the option to go back to a playlist on shuffle and continue from the last song that was played.

That didn't help me either. If you mean that little "ying/yang" looking oval arrow thing on the right that goes from "repeat" to "repeat 1" - that's not on, and hasn't been on, for my playlist. thanks for the attempt though.

WWell everything works just fine for me all issues have been fixed on my end. I forgot to mentor earlier that I also contacted apple support and they walked me through the whole process. So good luck.