ITunes Jukebox won't shuffle through songs

Remember in the good ol' days, when you could just click the spacebar at the iTunes library page, and it would shuffle through your songs and play something random for you? And you could click > and it'd shuffle again?
Well, my iTunes has stopped doing that. Unless I've specifically highlighted a song, iTunes won't play anything when I hit the spacebar. I'm authorized to play all my songs, and all my keys are working right, but it just won't shuffle anymore.
Help?

Woo, fixed it.
All my selections had become unchecked, and I didn't realize that was the cause

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