[boltonsoft]

I thoroughly expect to get reamed for this, but it's not my intention to inflame you. Just think that something could work better here. Here goes:
I live on the road. Love my iPod. I have an FM transmitter in the car and play my iPod throuh my car's stereo. Simple: (1) Enable Shuffle, (2) Select my Playlist, (3) press Play. Spiffy. Everything works.
Today, however, I'm home (rare instance) so I decide, after more than a year's happy life with my iPod, to play my music directly through my PowerBook 5,8 (OSX 10.4.8, 2GB RAM) speakers using iTunes 7.02 (15). So... (1) I select my play list, (2) enable shuffle, (3) turn Repeat Off (only want to hear the list once), (4) click on Play (or press space) and... NOTHING. So... (1) I select my play list, (2) enable shuffle, (3) turn Repeat Off, (4) select All, and (5) click on Play and it plays the first song on the list (hardly random) then stops. I'll be da*ned if I'm going to manually check off every song, if that's what it takes.
Is it more complex than this? It would be nice if it were more intuitive (requiring no instructions, like my iPod).

[MacCheetah3]

Hi
I don't know if it is or isn't what you want to hear but it is really that simple. Why yours isn't working correctly, I can't say off hand. It sounds like you are doing everything exactly as should be done and works flawless with my playlists. The only thing I'll verify is when you say "(1) I select my play list," you mean you are single clicking on the playlist name in the source column with the left button, is that correct? If so, I'm stumped.
All of the songs are check[box]ed?

[boltonsoft]

Yep, but Trackpad, only one button.

[boltonsoft]

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Hi
All of the songs are check[box]ed?

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Nope, and there doesn't seem to be a way to automate this (Select All doesn't do it) and, like I said, I won't do it manually, especially with a Playlist containing a couple hundred songs.

[boltonsoft]

Figured it out. I have to manually check all 593 check boxes. No way to automate it, like with a "Check All" menu command or keyboard shortcut (Select All doesn't do it). How absolutely Windows-like and moronic! I held Apple in much higher esteem until now.

[griffman]

Try Command-clicking any one checkbox in the playlist. I found that "buried" in the iTunes' Help -> Keyboard Shortcuts menu item. It's the first item in the "Library and playlist shortcuts" section.
-rob.

[mdawson]

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I have to manually check all 593 check boxes. No way to automate it, like with a "Check All" menu command or keyboard shortcut (Select All doesn't do it). How absolutely Windows-like and moronic!

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Or, Apple reasonably assumed that iTunes users would check/uncheck songs as they add them to their library. When I rip songs from my CD collection they are all checked by default. When I have helped others download music from the iTunes Store the new song is checked by default when it is added to their library. When I add songs to my library that have been touched up in Bias Peak, they are checked by default and when I convert said same tracks to AAC the new track is checked. So the real question would be how did everything in your playlist get unchecked in the first place?
I would guess that for whatever reason you had a group of songs selected and inadvertently selected Uncheck Selection in a context menu. Therefore, if you wish to check all of the tracks in a given playlist, all you need to do is select all the tracks, right-click or control-click to get the contextual menu then select Check Selection.

[Tom_Diola]

I imported an audio book with many many sections... To uncheck them was a snap: Click on the first one and then go to the last one and hit the Shift key and then hit the control key and up pops some options (one of which is) Uncheck Selection. Seems easy to me.

[MacCheetah3]

Hi
Now you know two ways to check and uncheck multiple / all songs in your iTunes' library / playlists and why your songs weren't playing properly.

[boltonsoft]

Thank you. It's a shame it's a "buried" feature.

[boltonsoft]

When I've been loading CDs into iTunes, I haven't necessarily wanted to hear every, single track in order, so I've unchecked them. Since it's never interfered with the way my iPod plays them, it's never been an issue until now.

[boltonsoft]

Gracias!

[mdawson]

I also rip entire CDs into my iTunes library then uncheck songs that I do not listen to while assigning the checked songs to their respective playlists. Checking/unchecking songs has nothing to do with play orderthe shuffle feature works to that end, so I do not see where that point has any bearing here. An unchecked song is never selected by iTunes for playback nor is it loaded onto a synced iPod unless the user places such songs manually.

[Dan Frakes]

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An unchecked song is never selected by iTunes for playback nor is it loaded onto a synced iPod unless the user places such songs manually.

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