My ipod definately goes through phases or particularly favouring certain artists. In the early days there was a long patch where shuffle would throw up Emmylou Harris several times a day. Then it moved on to a Steely Dan period - neither being a problem of course, but it then got more trying when it kept bunging tracks from "24 Stomps from the swamps" - now I love a bit of cajun, but it deliberately picked times when jolly fiddle was deffo not on the agenda. Lately it has been really into "Morph the Cat" by Donald Fagen (remember it is a Steely Dan fan), especially "The H Gang" which it wants to play daily. However it doesn't like tracks from Word, even through there are hundreds of the buggers on there, nor does it like the mighty Tull (see other posts). Jackson Browne can't get arrested. RT occasionally appears, but given the volume of his work on there I can only assume it is ignoring him as some sort of untidy-then-tidy-beard retribution. Mind you, it is very sparing in Little Feat exposure too, where we are dealing with have both a large number of tracks and a magnificently straggly beard. And how come it never plays any classical music except Eric Satie? And it only seems to like 50s jazz (Lester Young being a particular favourite, though I only have one CD..).

How do I bring it into line?