Comments on: Tracks my iPod plays on shuffle

By: Emmylee

Emmylee — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 19:03:34 +0000

Actually, the graph indicated what gets PLAYED, not everything on the iPod. It’s indicative of how rubbish the Shuffle option is.

By: Dahrk

Dahrk — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 06:03:21 +0000

That’s why I leave intro/outro/interludes in the album folder as .rar files. So they don’t come up in shuffle mode, but I can easily uncompress them if I want to listen to the album. As for hidden tracks, I make them into seperate tracks with Audacity.

By: Adene

Adene — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:06:45 +0000

You forgot “recently added songs ive been overplaying just because theyre new”.

By: AnEpicDeath

AnEpicDeath — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 23:35:05 +0000

Wrong. :/
And if you’re NOT a music nerd, then you are a worthless, uneducated tool.

By: AnEpicDeath

AnEpicDeath — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 23:33:04 +0000

I’d hardly write off “Dialectic Chaos” as an intro
That instrumental was easily the best part of “Endgame” \m/

By: AnEpicDeath

AnEpicDeath — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 23:30:19 +0000

You, sir, are a moron. Do you understand the concept of interludes? Many of them aren’t even music…

By: AnEpicDeath

AnEpicDeath — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 23:29:03 +0000

This graph can only be truly appreciated if you’re a metalhead

By: captain klink

captain klink — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:18:12 +0000

Not to mention when you listen to your iPod via dock.

By: Kittens

Kittens — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:40:14 +0000

You forget “Embarrassing tracks that you don’t want to admit that you love that only appear when someone else is looking over your shoulder at what you’re listening to.”

By: zune-atic

zune-atic — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:46:52 +0000

never had any problems with shuffling songs on my zune! though i’m personally pretty convinced that ipods, and anything apple for that matter, are the work of the devil. but maybe that’s just me.

By: wagonlover

wagonlover — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:15:54 +0000

HA! thanks for that. I hate when it is a good song with 10 minutes extra and a crummy bonus song at the end. Now my problems are solved!

By: LBean

LBean — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:58:04 +0000

I know plenty of hidden tracks that (even if you DIDN’T simply skip forward to them) would be worth the wait. Or maybe that’s just what happens when you immerse yourself in good music?

And to whoever’s saying interludes are worthless… what do you have a four-minute attention span? Do you fast forward the talking in movies just to get to sex & stuff being blown up?

By: Ksenia

Ksenia — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:19:05 +0000

I’m sorry but it only shows that you can’t use iTunes properly. There are some great options like “Stop time” and “Skip when shuffling”.

By: metaltothedeath

metaltothedeath — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:57:45 +0000

*facepalm*

By: Erik the Dude

Erik the Dude — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:09:47 +0000

Well then those interludes and intros only matter when you’re listening to the whole album in order. But if you’re listening to your whole playlist on shuffle, take a few minutes and build a playlist without them.

Also, the meaning of Mr. Roboto is pretty clear just listening to it alone.

By: gstats101

gstats101 — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:53:41 +0000

shut up… ur gay

By: Jeff P

Jeff P — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:55:00 +0000

Whoever made this forgot audiobook tracks. One of those always seems to show up.

By: BCT

BCT — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:20:58 +0000

Surely the red section being so small is totally accounted for by the fact you’re using the shuffle in the first place.

By: Stufreddy

Stufreddy — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:32:08 +0000

You know there are such thing as artists with consistantly good music on their albums and not just a few singles with the rest being mediocre. Most exeptional artists create albums that are to be listened to from start to finish like movies. You’d have to be some kind of ignorant teeny bopper to think the only people who apreciate albums are “music nerds”. Also judging by your comment to orange, anyone that thinks past your simplified outlook on something is a nerd to you. Well have fun thinking like that because you’ll be meeting a lot of “nerds” in your life.

By: Nash

Nash — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:57:05 +0000

I haven’t heard any intros or such I found interesting to listen to, but that’s my experience. At least we can agree that they can’t hold a candle to actual songs.

By: Nash

Nash — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:53:49 +0000

Your comment is suspiciously like something a music nerd would post, though.

By: winternets

winternets — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:23:06 +0000

“Listening experience” aside, some intros/outtros are well-written and even fun to listen to (case in point: the intro to the new Megadeth album), but you still wouldn’t usually want them to come up in place of a “real” song. Plus, tracks like those are rare.

By: o-range

o-range — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:35:21 +0000

I disagree that only music nerds appreciate the listening experience. Concept albums, for instance (like “Kilroy was Here” or “Chess”) may be more relevant when played in their respective totalities. You can have great songs off the albums (like “Mr. Roboto” or “One Night in Bangkok”) and listen to them separately but listening to the entire album is a fabulous “listening experience”. When you hear Mr. Roboto on its own it’s a weird dancy song about a robot dude; when you hear it in the context of the album, you learn that the “robotos” do everything for people and Kilroy used one of them to escape his imprisonment; and the lyrics of “Mr. Roboto” are suddenly relevant and not quite so weird

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:10:23 +0000

Sometimes the last track on an album will have a “hidden song” on it- these tend to have the first song (listed on the album cover), then around 4-5 minutes of silence, then a hidden song (Which in my experience is always rubbish)

Personally I just go into >get info > options tag and adjust the end time so the song will end just after the first song finishes, so it ceases to annoy me. You can also adjust the start time to edit songs that have a talky bit or unrelated music at the beginnine of the song.

By: Nash

Nash — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:33:17 +0000

You’d have to be some kind of music nerd to care about “whole listening experiences”. Interludes and such are just boring pointless fillers consisting of half a minute of babble or whatnot.

No, what you do is you listen to each album, pick out songs you like the most and add. Thus avoiding crappy tracks, interludes and other skip button fodder.

By: iPod Shuffle

iPod Shuffle — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:05:19 +0000

Is a biggest fail in Apple products.

By: Stufreddy

Stufreddy — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:32:20 +0000

Intros, outros, and interludes are often a part of albums which create a whole listening experience. Why would you not put them on an ipod with the rest if the album?

Anyway this graph indicates that a majority of your songs are intros,outros,interludes, and hidden track songs which doesn’t make much sense.

By: bman94

bman94 — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:21:22 +0000

Why would you want to put intro/outros or interludes anyway?

By: MoNiQuE

MoNiQuE — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:08:49 +0000

lol i can relate 2 the songs with 15 mins of nothing @ the end

By: kg333

kg333 — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:56:03 +0000

“Tracks with 15 minutes of nothing at the end that hide a hidden song”?

Wha…so does it have nothing at the end, or a hidden song? I have no idea what the graphmaker is talking about.

By: heidismiles

heidismiles — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:18:56 +0000

Yeah, like everyone else says – DUH. Don’t sync those songs to your iPod. Or create playlists that exclude those songs.

For the smart people reading this, here are some cool things to do with SmartPlaylists:

1) “Fresh Music” – set SmartPlaylist criteria to “Last Played > Is Not In The Last > 1 > Weeks.” This forces the program to play songs you haven’t heard in a while.

2) Checked songs – set SmartPlaylist criteria to “Kind > Is > Music” and check the box that says “Only Checked Items.” This will show you all your “checkmarked” songs, which will help on the iPod if you insist on syncing your entire library.

3) On the flip side, you can create a playlist for unchecked songs. Set the criteria to “Playlist > Is Not > “Checked songs”" (or whatever the name was of your playlist from step 2.)

By: winternets

winternets — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:51:05 +0000

I just download all my music from online stores (which solves the hidden track problem) and keep the intros off my iPod. Problem solved.

By: NP

NP — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:37:17 +0000

Graph maker, you are a moron. Fill your ipod with stuff you love only. And never ever ever put songs on it that fit into the purple, blue or yellow categories.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:37:46 +0000

The “Skip When Shuffling” option in iTunes is respected by the iPod as well. I use that to skip every segue/intro/outro track and “crowd noise” tracks as well.

By: Vec

Vec — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:28:43 +0000

I also manually manage my tracks, but I’d love a bit of variety. The same 20 songs get played over and over again, and some of the new music I put on never ever gets played. It’s annoying as heck.

By: o-range

o-range — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:08:20 +0000

Yes, there’s a reason I never use the “shuffle” mode. Also, I manually manage my tracks so there’s nothing on there that I don’t necessarily want to listen to.