Make iTunes emulate the iPod's menu mode

September 20, 2005 6:06 PM

Is there a way to make iTunes emulate the iPod's menu mode?

Say I want to listen to a shuffle of all songs by a particular artist. Do you really have to create a new playlist each time you want to do that? Why can't you select by artist, genre, album, etc, like you can on your iPod?

I know you can sort the library by artist, then play them in order, but I want shuffling!

posted by pornucopia to Media & Arts (4 answers total)

Type the artists name (or the album or whatever you want to shuffle) into the search box at the top. Turn on shuffle. Hit play.
posted by dobbs at 6:10 PM on September 20, 2005

Try bringing up the browser.

Edit Menu - Browser

Now you can click on a genre and control/shift/command click on a number of artists/albums

Then on the bottom left you can choose shuffle. It'll shuffle thorugh that selection.
posted by filmgeek at 6:11 PM on September 20, 2005

erm, artist's, not artists.
posted by dobbs at 6:13 PM on September 20, 2005

Thanks, I knew I was being dumb about this.
posted by pornucopia at 6:30 PM on September 20, 2005