Songs keep repeating when I shuffle a playlist

THIS SHUFFLE BUG NEEDS TO BE FIXED. 😠

SHUFFLE on my iphone does not work without repeating songs as discussed in this thread. Seems fine in itunes on my desktop - so why the iphone is not working???

It really ***** - I can't make it through my playlist and hear all of my songs because when I come back I hear same songs again.

Is there maybe another MUSIC PLAYING APP that we can use? Surely there must be a player where shuffle works on the iphone.

It's very clear this is a problem and is very distressing that there is no way to find out if there is a fix or if Apple is even working on this. This really ***** and is frustrating. Even though this "bug" affects a lot of people who passionately are upset about it there seems to be no hope.

How do big companies get away with this poor kind of customer support?

Oh man, the shuffle-repeat issue has been driving me absolutely up the wall. This is like proverbial Chinese torture. Why on Earth would Apple remove this feature? It worked great before! Utterly unfathomable!

This shuffle business was driving me nuts as well. I have found a fix that I actually prefer over just shuffling now. I utilize multiple nested smart playlists to keep things fresh in what I am listening to, but still favor things I like more. I also switch back and forth throughout the day between my iPad and my iPhone for listening. One other quick thing to mention has been pointed out in this thread before I think; your playlist sync's to your device in the same "sort order" as you have displayed in iTunes.

Knowing that, if you click on the left most sort column in playlist > songs view, it is no longer really "sorted" It's just an order. Now in your playlist settings, check the "Limit to" box, give it a number of songs, and use "random" Boom, your playlist is shuffled. AND it will stay in that order until the next time you sync. AND you can reorder songs by dragging them, if you want to hear certain songs on your commute in the morning, for example. AND when I switch from my phone in the car to my iPad at my desk, I can just start from the song I left off with in my car and start that one on my iPad. Every night I sync, I uncheck the "limit to" box and hit ok, then I edit the list again and turn the limit back on and it re-shuffles the list. I have been doing this for a few weeks now and I no longer miss "shuffle"

Hope some people find this helpful.

This is incredibly frustrating. Playlists will not shuffle on my iPhone and same song repeats over and over. I thought the problem was connected when I stopped my subscription to Beats 1, etc. I agree; until this is fixed I'm going back to Spotify.

Fix? This is about 1000000000% more trouble than nessesary for a simple shuffle.

and btw this bug is since ios8.4 and still hasn't been fixed even in the newest build of the public beta, even though I put several bug report on this

I think I may be having the same problem.

I always have my music on shuffle (so all music shuffled, not just a specific playlist)

I did the update a month or so ago to 9.2 or whatever and that's when it screwed up.

So basically in the morning commute, I have it set to shuffle and one song will play, and this will either repeat later that journey or on my journey home. I know there's loads of songs that haven't been played because it's the same ones over and over.

This is so frustrating. I've tried resets and resyncs and nothing.

So ridiculous.

I loaded up iOS version 9.3yesterday. First thing I noticed was it cut my play list sizes by 1/4 to 1/3. For example a playlist that used to have 40 songs, now has 28. Checked iTunes on my lap top to verify. Sure enough the playlist in question had 40 songs. The majority of my play lists were similarly effected. I then tried syncing my iPhone to my lap top via iTunes. After doing so, my iTunes play lists now matched the size of the play lists on my iPhone... not what I was hoping for! I am now resigned to having to go back and rebuild my playlists in iTunes so they are the size that I want them to be. Of course my concern is my iPhone will merely cut them back down to size again! I'll have to think long and hard before I try that again. Looks to me as though Apple has merely added to their music player woes.

Regarding other music player apps. I have had decent luck with Cesium. It appears to shuffle ok without repeating or skipping songs. It uses the same up next song list as Apple's music player, though so Apple's music player can still screw up the upcoming song list if given the opportunity. I try not to run the Apple music player app as a result. Other music apps I've tried that did not work well were Ecoute, VOX, EasyMP3, 3D Audio Player and Beat.

One other nice feature with Cesium is it shows how may songs are in the upcoming song lists. What's more it also shows the remaining time in the play list. Thus makes it much easier to determine if repeated songs are in the upcoming list as well as determining if it is skipping songs. I see Apple's music player app still does not do that.

Still an overall issue with Shuffle in 9.3.

Still hearing repeated tracks when shuffling all tracks (approx 2,000 - 5 days worth).

And just got this (again, out of the pool of 5 days worth of music):

Track 1 - Hot (feat Pusha T & Boo-bonic). Rosco P Coldchain. The Neptunes Presents The Clones.

Track 2 - Hot & Fun feat Nelly Furtardo (10'). N*E*R*D. Nothing.

Track 3 - Hot. The Neptunes. The Neptunes Present The Clones.

Track 4 - Hot-N-Fun (feat Nelly Furtardo). N*E*R*D. Nothing (Deluxe edition).

"Shuffle", yeah right, give me a break!

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.