How do I turn off shuffles on itunes for windows?

Switch to the Songs view. Click the heading of the album column until it reads Album by Artist. Make sure the small triangle points upwards. Make sure all the tracks you want to play are checked. Try in the original view now.

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Possibly a better answer can be found here. It seems this last version of iTunes turns shuffle on by default. You can disable it completely under the Control Tab > Shuffle > Off. 10 days of torture is over for me. Perhaps not a perfect solution for those who make frequent use of it and this needs to be addressed it some way or another.

Not sure where your link was supposed to go to, but the original poster already mentioned that they had turned shuffle off. Personally I haven't noticed it being turned on unexpectedly after upgrading.

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The problem is you cannot turn shuffle back off by left or right clicking the blue shuffle link in the main display and some users may assume re-clicking the button disables it. If you unintentionally hit it while in the album drop down view, you must go up the control drop down menu. Perhaps this was always the case and the recently re-arranged drop down album view is causing far more errant hits than before. I find the new album drop down view to be a step backward and exceedingly irritating for albums with a large number of tracks, but that is another post. Since all the other control menu options are readily available on the main display, I suspect a lot of people never bother to look in the control drop down menu. I've been using this program for 10 years and never found myself in this position. More than a week of trying to sort and re-arrange views was wasted. The more basic answer needs to be in as many places as possible and like the user in the post below, iTunes support was completely stumped as to what might be causing this.

I see where he mentions turning off shuffle, however I cannot replicate the forced shuffle when in album view, no matter how I sort the songs in songs list, if shuffle is off. It may be the problem is also more basic. Here is the link again. Unsure why the cut and paste failed, but having commented in that thread I suspect you knew which one I was referring to, but then again there are dozens of versions of this question floating around the internet and most are offering very complex solutions that may not be needed.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7682603

When you have an Album selected in the Albums view and hover over it there is a big play button, and a Shuffle link underneath. One might assume that pressing play would play it in order, and that pressing shuffle would shuffle just that album, or that the icon might toggle the shuffle mode as it does if you click the similar icon in the notification area at the top of the iTunes windows. In practice there are many more places to turn shuffling on, than turn it off again, and it always applies globally despite the appearance of local controls. Nevertheless, once one has eliminated the shuffle feature for out of sequence playback the remaining causes are likely to be sort order issues or unchecked tracks that are skipped.

I participate in a lot of threads. There are several that are active on this topic right now, and you hadn't posted in the other one which is probably why I didn't know which one you meant.

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Frances1966 wrote:

Just to confirm that shuffle is switched off under controls. I'm playing the album the from under the 'recently added' section could this be the problem?

I don't think so. Take a look at the Up Next list after you start playing the first track. Can you see any pattern from that? If you start playing say track 4 and don't see the rest of the album in the list (and shuffle is off) that would suggest that the tracks are unchecked and thus skipped. If you see tracks 3, 2, then 1, then you have an inverted sort order in the Songs view.

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