Songs keep repeating when I shuffle a playlist

Might you explain the process? Was it more than unchecking the "repeat 1" button?

I honestly don't remember every single step we did. He was going back and forth with a rep from beats and Apple Music that I almost gave up till he suggested to make sure playback was on where you left off or last played so you won't have to start the playlist again and then I told him how do I get the one song that play 40 times in a row, then suggested the repeat(1) was off. Then from that point on I haven't had any problems. Best suggestion from me would be to contact Apple and tell them what's going on. They'll help you.

FJimenez1 I think you need to go back and reread what this post is about. We aren't having the issue of 1 song repeating over and over back to back. We are having an issue where in a playlist of 1000 songs or even 200 songs,when shuffle all is selected after say 9 or 10 songs have played one of those songs we just heard will be replayed. With shuffle all you should never here the same song twice until all the songs have been played randomly. And if you have ever used this on an extended period of time you would have noticed the same problem. This isn't a problem with our devices nor with our settings. It is a fundamental flaw with the software, there's a glitch and the refuse to fix it let alone acknowledge it. So your "fix" will not work, as it stands nothing will work because none of us have the ability to reerite the software.

As Sparky87 mentioned, this is about Shuffle not remembering which songs have already played and which have yet to be played. The introductio of Apple Music has broken the Shuffle feature, so now instead of saying "Playing Song 1 of 45", for example, it just has the Shuffle icon set to on and merrily shuffles away, repeating songs and sometimes even repeating the order of those songs.

I've been Shuffling with ease since my first iPod 20GB, and this is not how it's supposed to work. I have an old iPod Touch on iOS6 and it Shuffles correctly, showing the total number of songs in the Shuffled selection and how far into that selection the listener is. Current Shuffle doesn't operate this way.

This reminds me of when check/uncheck stopped working correctly and instead of packing up my songs and leaving I just went to iTunes Match to better control over what went on my device. Apple slowly taking away features that power users enjoy to serve up their own vision of what today's music listener wants, which is apparently the same ten songs from a curated playlist over and over again.

I'm having this issue now too. So irritating that I can't go through one shuffle without hearing repeats of songs multiple times! nobody found a fix for this at all yet?

Having the exact same issue since Apple Music launched. No fix yet. Hoping that a fix is coming as this is awful for my 800 song playlist at work.

I honestly thought my head was messing with me the first few times this problem happened to me. My playlists range from 350 songs to 50 songs each and often times I find myself questioning whether or not I've heard song recently because I love the feather of shuffling a playlist and not having songs repeat themselves as I listen. I thought I was the only one with this problem! I'm glad I'm not and I hope Apple fixes it soon. I listen to music for ~4hrs/day at work and the shuffle function is used a lot! (btw I'm on an iPhone 6 on ios 9.1).

In the meantime, has anyone downloaded a good alternative music player app, while apple gets its head out of its ios? I downloaded the free app LISTEN today and it seems to be ok. Nothing slick, but I'm now hearing songs on shuffle in my playlist that I have not heard in a long time. It does seem to drain the battery a little.

I never updated my iphone 6 until recently, which I obviously am regretting. I can't believe people have been having this problem for roughly 6 months now. If apple doesn't fix this problem, there is NO WAY my next phone will be an apple.

I'm so sick of this, I refuse to buy anymore music from iTunes. Apple you need to fix this!!

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I'm curious to know any alternate iOS apps that you guys have found as well with a working shuffle.

Really I'm just looking for one that shuffles properly and tells you what track you are on (example: 34 of 420). This way I can verify its playing through every track before looping around. The same way iPods function. Any ideas?

Am currently in the process of downloading 9.2, which claims to have some updates to the Music app. We'll see if it makes a difference.

At first glance it looks like the latest software update may have corrected it!

At first glance, i thought it did too. However after getting in the car later this morning, I'm not so sure. Back to automatically playing the first song in the "A's" then the 2nd, 3rd, etc. Too bad, Apple dropped the ball... again 😟

Well today was my first day of having Good Luck with shuffling a playlist in what now seems like forever.

I did two things. First I upgraded to IOS 9.2 last night. Then I made a NEW playlist of roughly 400 songs. I successfully played 55 songs today (on and off all day) from that playlist without having a single repeat. It may have been because of the upgrade, it may have been because of the need to make a new playlist after all this apple bs, or it may have been due to both. Not sure, but it sure was nice not to hear a repeat. I'll be adding more songs to this playlist, which I believe means it will be re-shuffling, but I'll report back if this issue rears its ugly head.

Well, an update fix won't help me since my iPod Touch is stuck at 6.1.6 or something like that. I'm not a software coder, but I do know random number generators have been out a long, long time and I would assume something like that would be at the heart of any kind of randomizing (shuffling) behavior. I actually did what you suggested - took my Christmas playlist and made two new ones (instrumental & vocal). I played the vocal one today and got the same sort of behavior. It started playing from 3 separate albums (multiples from each) and every now and then some random song outside of those three. But that playlist had about 10 albums in it. I guess I just have to concede that the code for shuffle in iOS is crap - as well as the version of iTunes (12.2) that I have. Last night I was using those new playlists on my computer (where I am now, again listening). The blue shuffle arrows are on, and it is literally playing the songs in sequence. I've tried skipping songs, turning it on and off (in the window and in the playlist header) to no avail. It's like the code for shuffling doesn't even exist. Seems this should be something very, very basic. so sad.😢