But you can narrow down the field: from the Source pop-up menu, select a playlist, and Party Shuffle changes to show only music from this playlist. You can also rate songs you’ve heard recently by control- or right-clicking on a song name, selecting My Rating, and choosing a number of stars.īy default, Party Shuffle selects its contents from your entire music library.
SHUFFLE SONGS IN NEW ITUNES MAC
This list lets you see what’s been playing-in case you left your Mac for a while-and you can play a song again by dragging it down to the list of upcoming songs. From the Display pop-up menus at the bottom of the screen, you can change the number of upcoming and recently played songs shown, but the latter won’t appear until you start playing music from Party Shuffle. By default, it displays the five most recently played Party Shuffle songs. Party Shuffle shows the song that will start off your shuffle, as well as a number of upcoming songs-those it has put in the play queue. When you first click on the Party Shuffle icon, you’ll see a list of tracks. If you want to leave songs in Party Shuffle but skip them, just uncheck the boxes to the left of their names. If you don’t want to listen to certain songs in the list, simply select and delete them as you would items from any playlist iTunes will remove them from Party Shuffle, but not from your library, and other songs will pop up at the bottom of the list to replace them. If you want to skip a song that’s playing, just click on the Next button to go back to the previous song, click on the Previous button. Party Shuffle chooses songs at random from your library, and if you don’t like what it has picked, you can click on the Shuffle button to make iTunes deal you a brand-new hand. Party Shuffle is iTunes’ equivalent of the iPod’s Shuffle Songs feature, except that you get to see what’s coming next (see “Party Time”).