Re: How To Generate a Randomly Sorted Playlist In the Latest iTunes

[Tim Kilburn]

Hi,

It kind of depends on whether you are doing this on the iPhone itself, or doing 
it on your Mac/PC in iTunes then moving it over.  If you have Apple Music or 
iTunes Match where the iCloud Music Library is present, then the latter is the 
best, otherwise, we can make something work.  In either case though, this is 
most easily accomplished if the music is properly tagged as having the Genre 
Christmas, Holiday or something common like that.  Also, with respect to the 
random order, simply use the Shuffle All feature and they will be played in a 
random order, no need to have the playlist items in any specific order for them 
to be played in the random order.

On the iPhone itself, I'd go into the Music app, double-tap on Library then 
flick right until you hear Genre.Double-tap it.  All Genres on the iPhone 
will then be listed.  Just double-tap on the one you want then double-tap on 
the Shuffle All button.  It will just play them in a random order for you.

In iTunes, you could use a similar method as above and simply select the Genre 
you want, move to the table of songs within that Genre, do a Select All and 
create a playlist from that selection using the cmd-shift-n shortcut.  You 
could also do a Find from within the main library of iTunes with the key word 
"Holiday" or "Christmas".  the resulting titles could then be added to a 
playlist by pressing cmd-a to Select All, then use cmd-shift-n to create a 
playlist.  the resulting playlist could be transferred over to the iPhone 
either via the iCloud Music Library or by syncing the specific playlist from 
within iTunes.

I realize that this is not a step by step answer, but I can go into more 
specifics once I know more specifics about your situation.

Later...

Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada

On Nov 27, 2016, at 19:03, Brian Hansen  wrote:

I’m hoping someone can give me a bit of help here.  I need to create a playlist 
for all of my wife’s Christmas music.  Is there an easy way to get her hundreds 
of songs into the play list, and then have iTunes generate a randomly sorted 
playlist she can use on her iPhone?  Thanks for any and all help.

Blessings,

Brian

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Re: How To Generate a Randomly Sorted Playlist In the Latest iTunes

[Larry Thacker Jr.]

I was hoping someone with a little more experience would answer you, but I’ll 
give it a try.  I am not aware of any process to randomize the actual playlist, 
but one can always use the shuffle feature to achieve the same thing.  I 
resigned myself to that when I first moved to iTunes.  As for quickly adding 
the music, if there’s some common feature of all the music, you could easily 
set up a smart playlist based on that feature.  For example, I use the Grouping 
field for such things.  I think it is used for classical tracks by iTunes, but 
I’ve never seen anything in it that I didn’t put there.  Granted, I only have a 
handful of classical selections.  Otherwise, I think you could use the multiple 
selection feature to highlight a group of songs and add them at once to a 
playlist using the context menu, (sorry for the windows terminology) but I 
haven’t learned how to do that with Voiceover yet.  I don’t typically build 
playlists that large all at once, but what I did recently was perform a search 
and then move individual tracks as I found them to the playlist I was adding 
to.  Once you have moved one, a menu item appears in the context under “Add to 
Playlist”  at second from the top that will add to the last playlist you used.

> On Nov 27, 2016, at 8:03 PM, Brian Hansen  wrote:
> 
> I’m hoping someone can give me a bit of help here.  I need to create a 
> playlist for all of my wife’s Christmas music.  Is there an easy way to get 
> her hundreds of songs into the play list, and then have iTunes generate a 
> randomly sorted playlist she can use on her iPhone?  Thanks for any and all 
> help.
> 
> Blessings,
> 
> Brian
> 
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How To Generate a Randomly Sorted Playlist In the Latest iTunes

[Brian Hansen]

I’m hoping someone can give me a bit of help here.  I need to create a playlist 
for all of my wife’s Christmas music.  Is there an easy way to get her hundreds 
of songs into the play list, and then have iTunes generate a randomly sorted 
playlist she can use on her iPhone?  Thanks for any and all help.

Blessings,

Brian

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