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title: "Dear LazyWeb, How Do I Make iTunes “Play Next In Party Shuffle” from Windows' Command Line?"
date: 2006-10-30 03:30
status: published
description: >
  After <a href="/thegreatestcomebacksincelazarus">the last entry</a> I was gonna wait until <a href="/november">November</a> before writing anything, but then I got bored. Also, this entry breaks my previous record for “most subsequent entry titles to incorporate ‘Laz’”.

tags: LazyWeb, iTunes

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<p>
Hello LazyWeb. I know I always go to Wikipedia first, and then to Google, but you're my <em>real</em> favourite. Really. So could you help me out please?
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See, I've got this noise-making program called iTunes, and you can use it to play musics with. Now, usually, when I play a music with it, I use Party Shuffle, along with a very complex set of smart playlists that I refer to collectively as “Autopilot”.
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I invented Autopilot to play me the music that I most probably want to hear, but unfortunately it's not clever enough to figure out when I have a specific hankering for, say, <a href="/youthrewpenniesinandwished" title="from the Fetch-it">Memorize</a>, or <a href="/changebeforeislipaway" title="also from the Fetch-it">Iwe</a>, or even <a href="butyouvegottaknowtheirlies" title="again, also from the Fetch-it">Shoreline</a>.
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“Psychic” is not an available criterion in iTunes. So I add songs to the Party Shuffle “manually” every so often. And it'd be nice if I could do that by right-clicking a file and selecting a “Play Next In Party Shuffle” option. To be able to do that, I need to know what command line parameters to pass to iTunes.exe... and I was hoping, LazyWeb, that you might know something about it.
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Wikipedia's <span title="No, seriously">far too encyclopedic</span> to include something as grubbily practical as command line parameters, and Google could only tell me how to add songs to my library or load my iPod. I knew Google wasn't really my friend – it didn't even know that I don't have an iPod. Silly Google.
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Anyway, LazyWeb, <strong>what command line parameters do I need to pass to iTunes to make it “Play Next In Party Shuffle”?</strong> Answers on a postcard to <a href="mailto:lazywebplaynextinpartyshuffle@gkn.me.uk">lazywebplaynextinpartyshuffle@gkn.me.uk</a>
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