IPhone randomly starts playlist in non-random mode

I've been having a weird problem with my iPhone 4 for a while now and am wondering if anyone has seen the same behavior.
Periodically I will resume playback of one of my smart playlists and notice that the iPhone is playing the music in non-random mode, I will hear one song after another from the same artist. If I display the playback status then I can see that random mode is in fact selected.
Toggling random off and back on fixes the problem.
It's possible that this is in some way related to using a number of different car kits (I have several different vehicles) but I'm not really sure of this.
Is this a known bug?
I actually had my iPhone completely swapped out not too long ago and the problem came over to the new one, so I know the hardware is not the problem.
Message was edited by: jmpage2
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1. I have not had this happen to me as of yet, but I would say turn match off and then back on or you can do a hard reset to see if that fixes it. the last option I would take is to restore from a backup, and that should fix it.
2.I have not seen this happen either. Again, I would say do a hard reset and see if the problem persists. If it persists then delete the sluggish app and redownload it from the app store and see if that fixes the problem.
3. I have found that itunes seems to be sluggish a little with match on. they defininely need to give it an update. Lets all hope for a new itunes this year. I don't think there is a fix for this.
4. Don't have the answer for this either. I know itunes really sorts by artist and most of the time if I don't intentially put the album artist in then itunes does not do it for me.
5. Album artwork does kinda come and go, but if you have it attached to the music file then it's just a glitch that will get fixed as apple contiunes to issue updates and fixes for these common problems and yes artwork is a common problme just look through the threads and you will see it come up very frequently.
Hope I helped.

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