Iphone 5 shuffling through playlist and not playing what I want.

I loaded my playlists from my old iPhone to the new 5 and when I want to listen to a specific song the phone will shuffle through a few songs and play a different song. WHen I go back and try and play the song I want it will shuffle again. I have the shuffle feature turned off with the music playing as well as Settings--->Music--->Shuffle turned off. I cant unsync my music since its all in the clouds so how do I fix this?

I saw in one of the other similar posts that a person said to unclick the "sync music" box, sync, disconnect, reconnect, and then re-sync. I missed the disconnect and reconnect part, so it didn't work, but when I disconnected/reconnected, it worked. It was as if my phone didn't fully sync previously because it literally had to sync all of my music. However, now the endless shuffling and greyed out lists are gone. It works just as it should! Hope this works for you too!

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