How to stop iPhone’s music from shuffling

Am I inadequate? (OK, don’t answer that question.) But about a week now, my iPhone was set to shuffle all the music, including audio books(!) and I just couldn’t, for the life of me, figure out how to fix it. Or didn’t know how I even turned the shuffle on? It was absolutely driving me insane. I looked everywhere like “Settings” and wasn’t able to find the way to turn off… My colleague Tom solved it in a second. It was so easy that I totally missed it.
Problem was that the play-head, shuffle, repeat and genius panel was turned off or hidden, like this:

All I had to do was open iPod, play something, go to “Now Playing” and touch the album cover to make that appear, like this:

and un-check the shuffle sign (the two arrows crossing on the right side of Genius icon). But I totally missed that I need to tap on the album cover… I expected some kind of button or some fancy tab or something to make it appear…

Anyway, I also think turning the “shuffle” had to do something with the new “Shake to Shuffle” feature, which is “ON” by default. Annoying part of it is that after you shake the iPhone, the “Shuffle Songs” option will be turned on, whether you like it or not. I must have accidentally shook the iPhone to trigger this and was stuck with the shuffle….

To turn that feature off, go to “Settings” of the iPhone and select iPod from there, then chenge the slider to OFF on “Shake to Shuffle.” Now I can listen to audio books in the order of the chapters. Sheesh.

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  1. Anthony
    Posted Tuesday, July 20, 2010 at 07/20/2010 @ 10:01 am | Permalink

    Thank you. This was driving me insane…now sorted…

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