Hi Alan, Well, so far as I can tell, specifying Unshuffled doesn't seem to work. Clearly I have more research to do on this. :)
thanks for the suggestion. Cheers, Donna > On Sep 23, 2015, at 12:24 PM, Alan Lemly <wale...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Donna, > > I'm glad it worked for you. I think in my original reply at the beginning of > this thread, I suggested asking Siri to "Play Bruno Mars unshuffled". I'm > not sure if unshuffled is the correct term for keeping Siri from using the > default of playing an artist shuffled but if it's not, I'm sure a more > correct wording exists to do this. Perhaps others with more experience can > chime in on the best wording to get music played without shuffling. > > Alan Lemly > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Donna Goodin > Sent: Friday, September 18, 2015 1:10 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Anyone know how to play all songs by an artist on an iPod or > iPhone? > > Hi Alan, > > Well, it took me a while, but I finally had time to test this out. You were > right. Siri is a very easy way to do this. However, it is different from > using the procedure George described. Siri just shuffles the songs, whereas > if you do it the other way, one album is played then another then another. > Nice to have both options. > Cheers, > Donna >> On Sep 14, 2015, at 12:41 PM, Alan Lemly <wale...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Donna, >> >> I understand but give Siri a try. The iPhone seems to have multiple ways > to >> accomplish the same task and you might be surprised at how handy Siri can > be >> to play music provided it works like you want it to. >> >> Let us know your results and good luck. >> >> Alan Lemly >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Donna Goodin >> Sent: Monday, September 14, 2015 6:39 AM >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: Anyone know how to play all songs by an artist on an iPod or >> iPhone? >> >> Hey Alan, >> >> You know, I very rarely use Siri to play music. Not sure why, just habit, > I >> suppose. I'll give this a try and see what happens. It's so frustrating >> having gotten it to work once. >> Cheers, >> Donna >>> On Sep 13, 2015, at 2:24 PM, Alan Lemly <wale...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Donna, >>> >>> So have you tried asking Siri to play Eric clapton to see what happens? >> I'm still using ios 8.3 so my music app has not been affected by the > changes >> they brought in to support apple music. I'd be curious how Siri would > handle >> a request to play tracks by artist when both owned and streamed music are >> available on the same device. >>> >>> Alan Lemly >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>>> On Sep 13, 2015, at 1:57 PM, Donna Goodin <doniado...@me.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Alan, >>>> >>>> thanks for responding. I don't have any problems with playlists, the >> playlist tab at the bottom is very easy to find. What I would like to do > is >> be able to pick a specific artist, say Erik Clapton, and play all the > songs >> that I have by him in my library. You used to be able to do this, Music >> would play one album and then just go on to the next one. the weird thing >> is, that once, I actually did see the all Song button, and was able to >> select it, but I haven't seen that button since that one time. >>>> Cheers, >>>> Donna >>>>> On Sep 13, 2015, at 1:34 PM, Alan Lemly <wale...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Donna, >>>>> >>>>> I sync my desired playlists to my iPhone 6 so that my iPhone actually >>>>> contains the music I enjoy listening to as opposed to using Apple Music >> or >>>>> another streaming service. The way I would listen to a particular > artist >> on >>>>> my iPhone would be to call up Siri and say something like "Play Bruno >> Mars >>>>> shuffled or not shuffled." I'm not sure of the actual words to request >> the >>>>> playing not to be shuffled but give Siri a try and see if she meets > your >>>>> needs. >>>>> >>>>> Alan Lemly >>>>> >>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>>>> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Donna Goodin >>>>> Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2015 1:11 PM >>>>> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>>>> Subject: Anyone know how to play all songs by an artist on an iPod or >>>>> iPhone? >>>>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> so if you have multiple albums by a given artist, how do you get your >>>>> i-device to play all songs from all albums? I've looked in the Apple >>>>> Support forums, and saw something that said you did it by tapping on > the >>>>> artist photo. I've tried tapping the artist's name, but that did not > do >> it. >>>>> Does anyone know how to do this? >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> Donna >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an >>>>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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