- Customizing the Main Menu
- Rating Your Favorites
- How to Scrub through the Current Song
- Getting to Your Playlists
- Shuffling Your Song Order
- Repeating the Current Song or Playlist
- Importing Songs Already on Your Computer
- Which Song Formats Work with Your iPod?
- Finding Out How Much Space Is Left for More Songs
- Deleting a Song from Your iPod
- Creating a Playlist Right within Your iPod (On-The-Go)
- Controlling Your iPods Volume
- Enhancing Your Sound Quality (EQ)
- Saving Your Ears from Volume Abuse
- Using Your iPod as a Watch
- Setting an Alarm
- Turning Off the Click Sound
- Playing Games
- Listening to Audiobooks on Your iPod
- Renaming Your iPod
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Shuffling Your Song Order
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Once you choose a playlist and start playing a song, the songs will play in the same order you had them when they were in iTunes (so if you had them sorted by length, the longest song would play first, then the next longest song, etc.). That’s fine the first few times, but after a while you’ll hear a song and you’ll already know what the next song is going to be. That’s why you’ll want to know about Shuffle. It picks songs from your current list in random order—it “mixes things up” so you don’t get bored by always hearing the same songs in the same order. There are two ways to turn on Shuffle: Go to the Main Menu and use the Click Wheel to scroll to Shuffle Songs and press the center Select button; or on the Main Menu, use the Click Wheel to scroll to Settings, then press the center Select button. Scroll down to Shuffle, and press the center Select button again to turn Shuffle on (it will automatically choose Songs). If you’d rather shuffle by album (rather than just by individual song), then press the Select button again, and the Songs setting will change to Albums, so two songs from the same album don’t wind up playing back-to-back. To turn Shuffle off, press the Select button one more time.