getting a smart playlist to play random songs.

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getting a smart playlist to play random songs.

Hi there--

I figured it was a bug a few versions ago, but I still can't get this to work. I've created a smart playlist with each album tagged as say 'genre'. I can not get the playlist to randomly play. The task seems incredibly straight-forward. If you have been able to do this, can you please provide detailed instructions how to do this correctly? It should be only a few steps. I'm stumped and this should be really easy. I have to be missing something obvious.

Thanks in advance,

-Mark

MacBook Pro with Retina display, macOS High Sierra (10.13)

Posted on Sep 1, 2018 1:53 PM

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turingtest2

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Sep 2, 2018 4:11 AM in response to bdladdy

Ah, the something obvious you neglected to include was that symptom. When shuffle playing a playlist iTunes will ignore any tracks that are marked as skip when shuffling, or are unchecked. If there are no suitable tracks to play then playback stops after the first chosen track. At a guess you need to check all of the tracks in this playlist. You can either cmd-click any empty checkbox or use cmd+A to select all, then right-click and use Check Selection from the context menu. Cmd-clicking a checkbox sets or unsets all currently visible tracks and is probably how the tracks got unchecked in the first place, e.g. when trying to cmd-click tracks to add or remove from a selection that you were going to drag to another playlist.

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