ITunes is shuffling my songs in Album View without shuffling on

In album view, itunes is shuffling certain songs for no reason - it wasn't doing this a few days ago. I DO NOT have shuffling ticked, and itunes only seems to shuffle songs that are grouped together in the "Unknown Album" section of each artist, all of which have no track number. I do not want to assign track numbers to every song in this group. Strangely, it doesn't shuffle songs in named albums. Please does anyone have an answer to this?
Look at this example below. If I play the first song in the Unkown Album section "The Beginning Is The End Is...", then the next song itunes plays is the first song of the Album "Gish": "I Am One".
However, if I start with the song "Eye", then order goes:
Eye -> The End Is The Beginning Is The End -> [Untitled] -> The Beginning Is The End Is -> "Gish" Album...
HELP!!!

As soon as I read this message I did a cartoon style 'boggle take' - you know, the eyeballs telescope in and out several times. I had no idea you could delete songs from a smart list. Indeed, when in the name of science I tried to do so on my Mac, I couldn't.
So I can give you no advice on why/what is happening. But leg me suggest this. Make your smart list and then create a new normal list. Drag the music in the smart list into the normal (empty) list. Now delete the music from the normal list and sync that. It will, at least, allow you to edit your play list without deleting songs.

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I have a mac (Mac Mini, Mac OS X Server Lion 10.7.5 (11G63)) and I have itunes updated and everything else that I would think need to be updated but this has been happening for so long. For all my albums I can not see the songs, like it just wont show them when I click on album cover / thing. But my music does show when I go to songs. It also wont show in, Artist, and Gernes.
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if you cant see the picture its also uploaded here: http://tinypic.com/r/ws64hh/5
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Hi NoahS168,
If iTunes does not appear to be grouping your songs correctly under Album, Artist, or Genre, you may want to check to make sure that something hasn't changed or removed the metadata from those fields. The following articles explains a bit more about the metadata attached to song files:
Apple Support: Why aren't songs with the same album art grouped together?
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1468
Apple Support: Fixing Incorrect Song or Album Listings in iTunes
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA24677
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Hi guys, I've seen this question asked several times but I haven't seen an answer or advice that specifically relates to the problems I've been having with my iTunes library of late.
I've got a pretty big collection of music on iTunes - almost 1000 albums - and I'm pretty anal about the way it's stored and managed and I regularly change the song and album information to suit my own "house style". All my music was stored on a Dell laptop and was fine - I had no problems with changing and editing the information. I recently bought a MacBook Pro and shifted all the music files from the old machine onto the new one (a lengthy and frustrating process) and since then, I've had a lot of hassle in terms of amending and organising my iTunes collection. A lot of the music I've purchased from the iTunes store has reverted back to its original state, no matter how many times I've changed it.
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2014 discussion about edited tags for Store purchases reverting to originals - https://discussions.apple.com/message/26077896 - edited tags are still present in the media file but revert to the originals in the iTunes library file. Workaround is to refresh tags so media file tags are re-read and used in library file.
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My iTunes Library is replicating songs and albums in the library - ghosting

I recently collated many iTunes libraries and manually deleted duplicate files. Now when I open iTunes I'm seeing two and sometimes three of the same albums and songs I know I deleted. When I look in my hard drive I see that there are no duplicates but in the library file the duplicates clone themselves.
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Heron,
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Thanks for you help turingtest2.
I have searced for that file and I get it twice in the same folder. one of the files has a date stamp appended to it 2013-01-25 (todays date).
I copied both files to another folder and moved the album artwork folder to the same folder.
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I spent several hours downloading cover art to itunes for albums where the art couldn't be automatically retrieved by itunes. I'd browse through album view, and for every album that had no art, I'd (a) select the album by clicking on the default music-note image and thus activate the drag-and-drop target in the lower left, and (b) drag some art from a website. When I was done with this, all the albums for which I downloaded art would properly show art in the itunes cover flow and in album view mode.
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I opened iTunes and Safari, with Safari on Amazon.com (to get the art). I would play any song from an album and command-click the each song in the album. Once each song is highlighted, I hit command-I to change info. I then dragged the art from Safari to the small box on the right of the smaller info change screen. This resulted in every song highlighted displaying the same artwork.
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Hi Kevinpnb,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
Sorry to hear of your frustration with Music Match on your iPhone. You should be able to delete the music from your iPhone by following the steps in this article:
iTunes Match on iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5637
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http://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1565/en_US/iphone_user_guide.pdf
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iPhone, iPad, and iPod: Understanding capacity
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1867
If the issue still persists, try backing up your iPhone to iCloud, and then restore it:
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https://support.apple.com/kb/ph12521
I hope this information helps ....
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Hi Kevinpnb,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
Sorry to hear of your frustration with Music Match on your iPhone. You should be able to delete the music from your iPhone by following the steps in this article:
iTunes Match on iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5637
Deleting songs downloaded to your device
You can delete a song or album from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch at any time. Don't worry; it'll still be in the cloud.
Tap the Music app.
Tap More > Songs at the bottom.
Scroll or search for the song you would like to delete from your device.
Swipe right to left on the song, and then tap Delete.
Note: You must be in Artists, Songs, or Albums view to delete songs from your device. Deleting from a playlist won't remove a song from your iOS device.
Also, this information can be found on page 64 of the iPhone User Guide for iOS 7
http://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1565/en_US/iphone_user_guide.pdf
Remove a song from iPhone. Tap Songs, swipe the song, then tap Delete. The song is deleted from iPhone, but not from your iTunes library on your Mac or PC, or from iCloud.
If you have iOS 7, this will delete the song from local storage, but the song will still appear with a cloud symbol in the Music app, as you've noticed. To hide the iTunes in the Cloud purchases, navigate to Settings > iTunes & App Store, and disable "Show All: Music”
There may be a few orphaned songs on your iPhone that were partially downloaded or corrupted in some way. If that is the case, you can erase all of the music from your phone. Follow the instructions below and select the Music app under Usage:
iPhone, iPad, and iPod: Understanding capacity
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1867
If the issue still persists, try backing up your iPhone to iCloud, and then restore it:
iCloud: Restore your iOS device from iCloud
https://support.apple.com/kb/ph12521
I hope this information helps ....
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