IPhone shuffle function behaving strange

Hi
I noticed some trange behaviour using shuffle on the iPhone.
Firstly, when I select all songs in my library and select shuffle, it always seems to shuffle them in the same order. It does not appear to be random. It's at the point now where I know which song is coming up next even when shuffling all songs in my library.
Secondly, for some songs in my library I have more than one version of the same song. One might be the original, one unplugged, one live, etc. When using shuffle it sometimes play all versions of the same song one after the other in a row.
Has anyone experienced these problems?
Thanks

Shuffle will always work more or less as you describe. Best way to get a random mix (and this is true even in iTunes) is to use a smart playlist.
Actually, you want to use two of them. The first contains your selection criteria (could be as simple as "Is Music" which will get all music from your collection, but could also be as sophisticated as "not played in the last week and genre is Christmas and rating is 4 star or greater").
Now create one more smart playlist and this list is just "playlist is " and then the first list. Then choose a certain number of songs (I like 500 because it's usually more than enough) and choose "select at random".
I promise you this will give you a truly random list and, if you use the criteria that get updated on the fly (like using last played) it will continually change so there is no danger you will ever hear the same song twice, or even that same day (or week, or month :>)

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