sandjstickney

Searched to no avail:

What is the trick to getting an Ipod playlist to play in random order? The integration works great, but will only play in alphabetical order.

A5TDI wannabe

Shake it!

LONESTARS5

Go to the Control menu, scroll to Mix.

Mcqueen

..as opposed to scrolling the mmi wheel. If you scroll the wheel to select a song down the list, it takes you from 'mix' mode into alphabetical

LONESTARS5

Good catch Mcqueen, forgot that little detail.

sandjstickney

Yeah, I'm aware of those buttons, but using those when I've selected mix only gives me random songs from my entire Ipod...not from the PLAYLIST I'm in.

So, I open up the PLAYLIST using the mmi ****, I then place curser-dot at MY TOP RATED. If I depress mmi **** here, I just get list of songs alphabetically within MY TOP RATED.

Humor me and talk to me like I'm 5 years old - I'll take no offense

Mcqueen

I either go random with my entire library or select individual artists, albums, etc.

I'm riding desk jockey today, but if I were to going to see if it was possible, I'd depress the **** on 'MY TOP RATED' and then once you see the alphabetical listing of songs, I'd press the button adjacent to the mmi **** for 'Control' and then spin to "mix". If that just gives you a mix of your entire library, then I might begin to think that the folks at Audi didn't program in a way to randomize playlists.

CNVRTfromBMW

...done it for the entire library, and I do understand your problem, as you probably have a huge library. I know I have about 4,000 songs on my iPod Classic, and doesn't include the Podcasts and such, which would also get into the random mix. Since I couldn't figure it out, I simply deleted all my Podcasts from my iPod Classic.

But again, I have two or three of those damn money makers: I keep the iPod Classic with only music in the car full time; I have a iPod Touch for carrying around with me; I keep my old, 2nd Gen Nano in my SUV, which doesn't have full compatibility for playing the iPod/mp3.

LONESTARS5

In my case I used my Purchased Playlist. Once in the play list, I selected the first song listed and then went to the Control menu. I then scrolled to the Mix function. As stated before, use the arrow buttons to move on to the next randomly selected song. Hope this helps.

sandjstickney

I'll try LONESTAR suggestion, but my experience is exactly as you describe Mcqueen. Might just be s.o.l. here. And yes, I've got a big library of 3500 songs - so PLAYLISTS are essential.