Given Apple ’s Q1 2007 financials , it ’s pretty clean that there are a mass of new iPod owners out there . One of the things that such iPod owners find oneself puzzling is shuffle — how the iPod goes about randomizing playback of its euphony . Playlist forum phallus Graylensman , for lesson , posts a plebeian question :
Here ’s the background :
The iPod confirm three kinds of shuffle . The first is the Shuffle command you find on the independent screen . Select this and the iPod will randomly pick music tracks from its intact library , skipping audiobooks purchased from Audible.com or the iTunes Store .
Within the configurations screen you ’ll see the choice to ruffle song or albums . If you select Songs , the iPod will arbitrarily roleplay tracks from the selected item — an album , playlist , or program library . So , for object lesson , if I ’ve enabled Shuffle - > Songs and then prefer my massive Funk playlist , the iPod will play songs haphazardly from that play list .
To shuffle all the albums on your iPod , enable Shuffle - > Albums then voyage to Music - > Artists - > All and public press Play . The iPod will select an record album at random and play it from start to terminate . When it finishes with that album , it will select another and play it in its entirety .
According to Apple , if you instead choose a track from the Songs screen and public press romp with Shuffle - > Albums selected , the iPod will choose a Song dynasty at random , play it and the subsequent racetrack on that record album in order , peck another song from a dissimilar album at random , and then encounter that album ’s remaining track in order . An deterrent example would go something like this : I press Play on my iPod and it pick out Human Highway from Neil Young’sComes a Timeand then dally Already One , Field of Opportunity , Motorcycle Mama , and Four Strong Winds , which are the album ’s stay tracks . Off the iPod goes to choose Sinner , which is cartroad 6 of Neil Finn’sTry Whistling This . The iPod will then play tracks 7 through 13 of TWT before move to another randomly selected track from another album .
