Playlist shuffle issue.

I have a smart playlist called "Holiday" as I'm sure many of us have. After my update to iTunes 11, I cannot play that playlist on shuffle. All my albums/songs are listed, iTunes says there are 670 songs in the playlist, however when I hit the shuffle button, nothing plays. If you click the "Up next" button it says there are no songs in the playlist. This is happening only to this particular playlist. All my other playlists (smart playlist, genius playlist and manually created playlists) work fine.
I have done the following trying to correct the problem. I deleted the playlist and then recreated a smart playlist using genre. I deleted it again and manually created it by dragging the songs to it, I created a different smart playlist from another genre and it works fine. I creatd a manual playlist with a different name, but with all my holiday genre music in it and it doesn't work.
Wow...I think I just figured this out while typing. I have all my holiday music set to "Skip When Shuffling" so that it doesn't come up when I set my Library to "Shuffle". Who needs to hear Trans Siberian Orchestra in July? This worked fine in iTunes 10.x, as it skipped on a big shuffle, but shuffled when I played the "Holiday" playlist. This really does need to be fixed.
Kristy

After searching the archives here I see that this has always been the case. Maybe I didn't mark these songs to skip when shuffling until after last Christmas. So what I have to do is unmark these & then re-mark them after the holidays. Oh bother

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Searchin for a specific song using the search box on top of every playlist kicks you out of shuffle.
that never happened to me before. just this update.
therefore, if i wanna hear a song within the shuffled playlist, I have to scroll all the way down just to find the song and continue on the shuffled playlist. Does anyone know how to fix this please?
its just a small thing, but it irritates me coz this never happened before.
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Thank you so much for propmtly coming to my aid! Unfortunately, I have done both of those things and yet the issue remains, arrrgh. Just for complete clarification(not do to a lack of understanding on your part, but possibley for future viewers), it's not that it won't shuffle, it's that it doesn't play anything after the current song has finished. I have to manually get it to play something else. once I turn off shuffle it plays thru my playlist fine. I tried to play it with repeat on (and yes repeat all not just 1....not that dumb thank god.) and the problem persists. It's pretty frustrating and I am starting to think that maybe something went awry in my recent update of itunes. Again, thank you for responding so quickly. If you have anymore suggestions it would be greatly appreciated.

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Do all the songs in your playlist have a check in the box to the left of each song's name? Songs without a check will be ignored unless specifically selected to play. If you don't see the checkboxes, go to iTunes > Preferences > General and check "Show list checkboxes".
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