A fun feature in iTunes for listening to music is Party Shuffle, which is iTunes’ way of putting your music into a continuously changing playlist that behaves a little differently from regular playlists or the music library. The amount of changes and customization possible with it is quite impressive.
To get to Party Shuffle, simply select it from the sidebar, under Playlists.
Source
From that default Party Shuffle page, there is a list of options at the bottom of the page. (Picture below.) The first option is what the source of the shuffled songs is. I personally usually select my Favorites folder, which contains playlists of all my favorite artists, as well as other miscellaneous favorites. The source can be any regular or smart playlist, any folder, the music library, or your purchased music playlist.
Select Higher-Rated Songs
The next option is whether you want to “[p]lay higher rated songs more often.” Like it says, checking this box will make Party Shuffle search for songs with higher ratings.
Display
To the right of the previous two options, iTunes offers two drop-down menus that let you choose how to display your music. The first asks how many recently played songs to display. Put more in and you’ll be able to find recently played stuff for longer. Of course, you can just use a simple Recently Played playlist for this. The second drop-down asks how many upcoming songs to show. If you put this at a higher number, you can look ahead and weed out songs you don’t want played sooner, or rearrange the play order more easily.
If you lower the recently played count and then raise it again, it will not show the old recently played tracks, but start from scratch.
If you lower the upcoming songs count, it doesn’t just stop displaying them, but actually takes them off the list. Once new songs appear or you extend the list, different songs will be added to the shuffle.
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