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Ever since I purchased my 2nd generation Nano years ago, I was able to shuffle my main play list independently from my holiday play list and vice-versa. Lately, it's been shuffling a combination of both play lists. If I start out by selecting shuffle and then go to my main play list, it plays the songs in order from A-Z, completely ignoring the fact that I selected to shuffle the songs. In the past, it would always shuffle ONLY the play list that I selected at the time. The only way I can get shuffle to work is if it plays both my main play list and my holiday play list. I don't necessarily want to listen to holiday songs in the middle of July. Any idea why shuffle all of the sudden stopped working the way it used to?

Hi Kimberly3,
If you are having an issue with your iPod nano not performing its shuffle function as expected, I would suggest that you troubleshoot using the steps in this article -
Apple - Support - iPod - iPod nano Troubleshooting
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Brett L

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