{"id":190,"date":"2004-05-21T22:56:22","date_gmt":"2004-05-21T22:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2004\/05\/itunes_party_sh_1\/"},"modified":"2004-05-21T22:56:22","modified_gmt":"2004-05-21T22:56:22","slug":"itunes_party_sh_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2004\/05\/itunes_party_sh_1\/","title":{"rendered":"iTunes Party Shuffle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>iTunes has always had a shuffle option that will randomly play songs from your song library, playlist, or CD. With version 4.5, there is an improvement on this concept with &#8220;Party Shuffle.&#8221; This special list creates a dynamic playlist. It will show the last X songs played and the next Y songs coming up. It optionally gives weight to highly rated songs. This is not that different from shuffle (which is still there) except  I&#8217;ve found it very useful to go back and see what just played or what is coming up.<\/p>\n<p>In this snapshot, the entire album Dark Side of the Moon (46 minutes) entered the shuffle because I imported that as a continuous song (no tracks.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"partyshuffle.jpg\" src=\"\/jeb\/files\/mt\/archives\/partyshuffle.jpg\" width=\"539\" height=\"247\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"music\">Now <a href=\"http:\/\/mac.fiveforks.com\/music\/pink%20floyd\/dark%20side%20of%20the%20moon\/01%20Dark%20Side%20Of%20The%20Moon.mp3\">playing<\/a>: <B>Dark Side of the Moon<\/B> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22Pink Floyd%22Dark Side of the Moon%22\" target=\"_blank\">Pink Floyd<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iTunes has always had a shuffle option that will randomly play songs from your song library, playlist, or CD. With version 4.5, there is an improvement on this concept with &#8220;Party Shuffle.&#8221; This special list creates a dynamic playlist. It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2004\/05\/itunes_party_sh_1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}