Oh, weird.  I didn't try saying in order.  I tried unshuffled, and play albums 
by ...  So I guess the trick is the in order part.  Thanks!
Cheers,
Donna
> On Sep 25, 2015, at 1:44 AM, Alan Lemly <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Donna,
> 
> I just tried telling Siri to "Play my Pink albums in order." This is the
> only artist for which I have more than one album on my iPhone. Siri did
> start playing the first track on one of my Pink albums in order and the
> Shuffle indicator was not selected. When I tapped the next track button, the
> second track on that album began playing. What I can't figure out is how
> Siri picked the album to start with since she didn't do it either
> alphabetically or by release date.
> 
> Alan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Donna Goodin
> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 7:24 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Anyone know how to play all songs by an artist on an iPod or
> iPhone?
> 
> Hi Alan,
> 
> Well, so far as I can tell, specifying Unshuffled doesn't seem to work.
> Clearly I have more research to do on this. :)
> 
> thanks for the suggestion.
> Cheers,
> Donna
>> On Sep 23, 2015, at 12:24 PM, Alan Lemly <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Donna,
>> 
>> I'm glad it worked for you. I think in my original reply at the beginning
> of
>> this thread, I suggested asking Siri to "Play Bruno Mars unshuffled". I'm
>> not sure if unshuffled is the correct term for keeping Siri from using the
>> default of playing an artist shuffled but if it's not, I'm sure a more
>> correct wording exists to do this. Perhaps others with more experience can
>> chime in on the best wording to get music played without shuffling.
>> 
>> Alan Lemly
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected]
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Donna Goodin
>> Sent: Friday, September 18, 2015 1:10 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: Anyone know how to play all songs by an artist on an iPod or
>> iPhone?
>> 
>> Hi Alan,
>> 
>> Well, it took me a while, but I finally had time to test this out.  You
> were
>> right.  Siri is a very easy way to do this.  However, it is different from
>> using the procedure George described.  Siri just shuffles the songs,
> whereas
>> if you do it the other way, one album is played then another then another.
>> Nice to have both options.
>> Cheers,
>> Donna
>>> On Sep 14, 2015, at 12:41 PM, Alan Lemly <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Donna,
>>> 
>>> I understand but give Siri a try. The iPhone seems to have multiple ways
>> to
>>> accomplish the same task and you might be surprised at how handy Siri can
>> be
>>> to play music provided it works like you want it to.
>>> 
>>> Let us know your results and good luck.
>>> 
>>> Alan Lemly
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: [email protected]
>>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Donna Goodin
>>> Sent: Monday, September 14, 2015 6:39 AM
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: Re: Anyone know how to play all songs by an artist on an iPod or
>>> iPhone?
>>> 
>>> Hey Alan,
>>> 
>>> You know, I very rarely use Siri to play music.  Not sure why, just
> habit,
>> I
>>> suppose.  I'll give this a try and see what happens.  It's so frustrating
>>> having gotten it to work once. 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Donna
>>>> On Sep 13, 2015, at 2:24 PM, Alan Lemly <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Donna, 
>>>> 
>>>> So have you tried asking Siri to play Eric clapton to see what happens?
>>> I'm still using ios 8.3 so my music app has not been affected by the
>> changes
>>> they brought in to support apple music. I'd be curious how Siri would
>> handle
>>> a request to play tracks by artist when both owned and streamed music are
>>> available on the same device. 
>>>> 
>>>> Alan Lemly 
>>>> 
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>> 
>>>>> On Sep 13, 2015, at 1:57 PM, Donna Goodin <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Alan,
>>>>> 
>>>>> thanks for responding.  I don't have any problems with playlists, the
>>> playlist tab at the bottom is very easy to find.  What I would like to do
>> is
>>> be able to pick a specific artist, say Erik Clapton, and play all the
>> songs
>>> that I have by him in my library.  You used to be able to do this, Music
>>> would play one album and then just go on to the next one.  the weird
> thing
>>> is, that once, I actually did see the all Song button, and was able to
>>> select it, but I haven't seen that button since that one time.
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Donna
>>>>>> On Sep 13, 2015, at 1:34 PM, Alan Lemly <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Donna,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I sync my desired playlists to my iPhone 6 so that my iPhone actually
>>>>>> contains the music I enjoy listening to as opposed to using Apple
> Music
>>> or
>>>>>> another streaming service. The way I would listen to a particular
>> artist
>>> on
>>>>>> my iPhone would be to call up Siri and say something like "Play Bruno
>>> Mars
>>>>>> shuffled or not shuffled." I'm not sure of the actual words to request
>>> the
>>>>>> playing not to be shuffled but give Siri a try and see if she meets
>> your
>>>>>> needs.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Alan Lemly
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: [email protected]
>>>>>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Donna Goodin
>>>>>> Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2015 1:11 PM
>>>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>>>> Subject: Anyone know how to play all songs by an artist on an iPod or
>>>>>> iPhone?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> so if you have multiple albums by a given artist, how do you get your
>>>>>> i-device to play all songs from all albums?  I've looked in the Apple
>>>>>> Support forums, and saw something that said you did it by tapping on
>> the
>>>>>> artist photo.  I've tried tapping the artist's name, but that did not
>> do
>>> it.
>>>>>> Does anyone know how to do this?
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Donna
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