Music no longer shuffles to next song

Has anyone experienced isues where shuffle no longer works and it just plays the same song over and over again.
Seem to have started shortly after I upgraded to versions 2.2.1

Hello and Welcome to Apple Discussions. 
Make sure that you don't have 'loop this track' selected (as it is in the image below - blue loop with a 1):
The plain blue loop will loop whole album or playlist.
regards
mrtotes

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