Ipod nano no longer playing songs sequencially

I don't know why, but after I charged my ipod the other day, I knwo itunes came up and did somehting. but now, for some reason, it won't play the songs sequencially. What I mean is, when I hit play, it flashes the song titles on the screen, hit it again and it holds then it will play the song it's on. It won't go any further unless you go through the procedure again. It used to just keep going until I stopped it, it would play the songs in order if I hid next or previous, it would go to the next and previous songs, now it just goes back to that flashing the songs. It's very annoying, I want it back to the old way, can anyone tell me what happened or how to get it back to the other way? Thanks.

Honestly, I was hoping it wouldn't come to that but if it does, it does I guess. I was hoping it was just a setting or something first.

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