Shuffle

Shuffle Titles

From the Utilities menu, choose Shuffle Titles.

"Shuffling" the music library is totally optional... it's possible that you may never need to do it. You shuffle titles to further randomize the scheduling process. When scheduling each rotation, the system always tries to play the song that has not been played for the longest period of time. This doesn't mean your music will simply play in the same order repeatedly. Your scheduling rules will prevent this from happening, and a natural randomizing will occur. Occasionally, however, you may wish to start from scratch... mix up the library. You also should shuffle whenever you add a large number of titles to one rotation. This is because any title you just added will be the one that the system will try to select first. If you add 50 new oldies, the system will schedule them one after another when it schedules your "Oldies" rotation. Even after shuffling, the system will still honor your Previous Days protections. It will simply ignore how long ago the title was played except for Previous Day rules.

You'll be asked to select all rotations that you would like to shuffle. The system next "shuffles" the rotations you selected. Although we call "shuffling" a "randomizing" process, the system actually doesn't rearrange titles "randomly." It tries to spread titles' characteristics evenly through the library.