iTunes question

[PopTodd]

Before I had a new OS installed in my Mac, I had my iTunes set to randomize my songs by artist... making it least likely for any songs by the same artist to be repeated. But, since that new installation, not only am I getting a lot more repeats, but I am having a hard time finding the randomization controls on the new iTunes control.

A little help?

Thanks.

[Winston Legthigh]

I see these as my options, (my version of iTunes is 9.2.1 (4))

 

Controls >

Shuffle>

By Songs

By Albums

By Groupings

 

I don't know what "By Groupings" means.

 

And I'm not sure how else to refine the shuffle options.

 

This is how I would shuffle all Beatles songs: Input "Beatles" into the search field, so that only Beatles songs show up on the screen. Then I hit Shuffle and Play, and it plays every song in random order. No repeats.

[PopTodd]

Yeah, I've done all that. It used to be, however, that there was a slider that you could use to control the likelihood of hearing an artist repeated: "more likely" to "least likely". I think that control is now gone. I wish that it weren't; that's what I'm looking for.

[Rusty Shackleford]

I see these as my options, (my version of iTunes is 9.2.1 (4))

 

Controls >

Shuffle>

By Songs

By Albums

By Groupings

 

I don't know what "By Groupings" means.

 

And I'm not sure how else to refine the shuffle options.

 

This is how I would shuffle all Beatles songs: Input "Beatles" into the search field, so that only Beatles songs show up on the screen. Then I hit Shuffle and Play, and it plays every song in random order. No repeats.

 

My understanding of "groupings" is that it allows you to tag songs with the same grouping, and then when you shuffle, it will play all the songs in a group together.

 

So for example, you can tag "Red-Eyed and Blue" and "I Got You" so that they'll always play together, just like God and Tweedy intended.

 

At least that's what I'm hoping--they haven't come up yet on my shuffle.