From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V19 #219 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, March 19 2013 Volume 19 : Number 219 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: One of those Apple questions [Stewart Russell ] Re: One of those Apple questions [2fs ] Re: One of those Apple questions [Jason Brown ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:12:49 -0400 From: Stewart Russell Subject: Re: One of those Apple questions Wouldn't it be a lot easier just to make sure the rental had at least an aux port for your mp3 player? iTunes is such a moving target these days. Cheers Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:16:17 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: One of those Apple questions On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 8:15 PM, Jill Brand wrote: > You are the only folks that I can go to with these kinds of questions, so > here > goes. In an older version of iTunes, when I shuffled songs on a playlist, > the > screen displayed the list in a shuffled way. Sometimes I burned CDs from > shuffled playlists to play in my car before I had a hookup for an mp3 > player. > > Flash to the present. I have iTunes 11.0.2. If I got to a playlist and > hit > "shuffle", the music shuffles, but the list looks the same. Is there any > way > for the list to appear in its shuffled form like it did in the good old > days? > We will be renting a car for a trip in April-May, and I wanted to burn some > CDs of mixed music (I made a playlist of over 700 songs!), but I want the > songs to be all mixed up without my having to think about it. I hope this > makes sense. Fuck you, Tom Clark, where are you? > I am not Tom Clark. As far as i can tell (and there's been some discussion of this on Apple forums online), while you can shuffle playlists, they won't *list* in shuffled form...nor can you burn them in shuffled form. However, there are at least two relatively simple workarounds that I thought of. One: depending how "random" you want your list to be, sort on something non-obvious, like length of song. Unless you have a bunch of 10-minute tracks, this will effectively randomize the order of your tracks in terms of not alpha'ing by artist, title, or anything you're likely to recognize when it plays back. Two: take your playlist, click on the shuffle icon so it's blue, start playing a track. Move the scrubber till about 5-10 seconds before the end of the track and let it play through to the end. When the next track starts, do the same thing: move the scrubber, let it play. Repeat this until you've let the endings play of however many tracks you want. Go over to Recently Played; copy those tracks into a new playlist. Burn that. Obviously, the first one is easier...and it's fine if your songs are of typical length. But if they're not, or if you just really want truly random as defined by iTunes, the second way works. Not sure why this feature is either impossible or hard to find... - -- ...Jeff Norman Of the Milwaukee ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:34:54 -0700 From: Jason Brown Subject: Re: One of those Apple questions Yeah, I rent cars often and they all seem to have an Aux port standard . So you should be set on that score unless you plan on using a cheap-o service with much older cars. On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Stewart Russell wrote: > Wouldn't it be a lot easier just to make sure the rental had at least an > aux port for your mp3 player? iTunes is such a moving target these days. > > Cheers > Stewart > - -- Man of wisdom, and man of compromise, man of weak flesh in an armored disguise, all fall down. - - Robert Pollard ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V19 #219 ********************************