Nano won't shuffle

I have an 8GB nano and when I select shuffle (either for a single artist of for a playlist) the first song keeps repeating and will not go through the tracks without my pressing the 'next' button. I downloaded a manual but this told me to change the Shuffle settings – unfortunately within my settings the only one that refers to the Shuffle function is the 'Shake to shuffle' option. How do I play all my songs or all my tracks by one artist on shuffle continuously?

Hello Dbflex7,
And welcome to Apple Discussions!
See page 29 of your iPod's *User Guide* on how to disable the repeat setting from the Now Playing screen.
http://manuals.info.apple.com/enUS/iPod_nano_6thgen_UserGuide.pdf
B-rock

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