How do I shuffle the songs by the same artist in a playlist I made??

I hope this is the right forum, I have a 30GB. OK so I created a workout playlist which has about 200 songs in it and have it set on shuffle. but when I play it on my Ippd it groups all the same artist together. I don't want the same artist to play back to back but it does. I have toyed with the shuffle over and over and I can't seem to figure out how to make them play randomly. any help?
Message was edited by: Jenerallee

While a song is playing keep pressing the center wheel and you will get the shuffle menu that will allow you to change the shuffle type from "off", "song", "album".

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