Who Uses iTunes' Party Shuffle?
After moving from Linux to a Mac, there is one thing I really miss: The “Queue” feature in the Rhythmbox music player. It’s a playlist that sits in your sidebar, waiting for you to drop songs into it. Any time songs are in the Queue, they will be played after the song currently playing, in the order you put them there. After those songs have played, Rhythmbox will go back to shuffling your library.
It’s great if you think to yourself, “Hey, I really want to hear this song, and that song, but I don’t want to build a playlist with only a few songs, and then get stuck hearing those songs over and over again.”
iTunes has something similar, and it’s called the Party Shuffle. But what makes it different is, by default, it selects 15 songs at random for you, and any songs you drop into the Party Shuffle won’t play until those 15 songs play.
Eventually, I figured out that you can tell Party Shuffle to display zero upcoming songs, and that way, the songs you drop into it will be played after the current song. However, you still have to tell it to play the Party Shuffle every time you start iTunes, which is a bit of a hassle.
So my question is, does anyone else out there use and enjoy the Party Shuffle? How do you use it?
TenFootNinja