# How can  I get my iPod to play songs in order?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 25, 2009, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-get-my-ipod-to-play-songs-in-order/497513 "2009-05-25T00:28:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2009, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-get-my-ipod-to-play-songs-in-order/497513/1 "2009-05-25T00:28:21Z")

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It seems that there is no way to play songs in a specified order on an iPod.

The playlist feature on iPods should be called a playgroup.

Albums don’t play in order, either.

I’ve been all over my iPod options, iTunes options… how do I make the damned thing play stuff in order?

When selecting a playlist or an album, it always gives me the first song first, then it just shuffles shit up.

WTF???

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**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2009, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-get-my-ipod-to-play-songs-in-order/497513/2 "2009-05-25T00:41:44Z")

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Did you try:  
Main Menu -\> Settings and make sure Shuffle has off next to it?

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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2009, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-get-my-ipod-to-play-songs-in-order/497513/3 "2009-05-25T00:51:18Z")

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:smack:

thanks

Not sure when I put it on shuffle, or why, but that was it. Didn’t even really realize that was a setting. All my other mp3 players just had a shuffle setting that you could turn on or off at any time… middle of a playlist, album, whatever. It wasn’t a secret setting like it is with iPods.

thanks again

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**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2009, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-get-my-ipod-to-play-songs-in-order/497513/4 "2009-05-25T01:21:09Z")

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A side note for others, my car stereo has a USB port so I use a memory card as a hard drive. To get songs to play in a certain order I put numbers in front of the song name.