Shuffle only likes some songs in a playlist

I have a playlist of around 190 Christmas songs in my Music Library. When I Shuffle this playlist, I always get the SAME 20 songs from the playlist. The order among these 20 varies, but it's always the same 20. The remaining 170 songs never appear. I checked some of my other playlists, and didn't run into this problem.

Posted on Dec 23, 2021 3:39 PM

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Posted on Dec 24, 2021 12:13 PM

sgb5533 wrote:

Thanks, but all the boxes were already checked, so that's not the problem.

SGB,

Check a few of the songs that aren't getting a turn in Shuffle:

  • Do they play OK when you start them directly?
  • If you right-click, Get Info, on the Options tab, are they set to "playback -- skip when shuffling"?

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Dec 24, 2021 12:13 PM in response to sgb5533

sgb5533 wrote:

Thanks, but all the boxes were already checked, so that's not the problem.

SGB,

Check a few of the songs that aren't getting a turn in Shuffle:

  • Do they play OK when you start them directly?
  • If you right-click, Get Info, on the Options tab, are they set to "playback -- skip when shuffling"?
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Dec 24, 2021 1:56 PM in response to sgb5533

sgb5533 wrote:

Great! The problem was indeed "skip while shuffling". Thanks a lot.

Glad it is solved! People usually put that setting so they don't have to hear Christmas songs in July, and then come December it creates a problem. :-) Merry Christmas.

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