Not playing playlists in order displayed.

When I pull up a playlist and select the first song in the playlist it plays normal, but after the song finishes instead of going to song 2 in the list it will jump around to a random song. As if shuffle was on. But with the iPhone you have the shuffle button up top to do that. Any ideas on a fix? I am using the latest firmware.

Actually there are TWO places to enable shuffle. When you look at a list it gives option as first entry which will pick a random song and enable shuffle mode. But once you do that once, shuffle mode is now toggled ON.
Go play any song. When playing tap center where the art is. Another toolbar will appear up top with progress and Shuffle and Repeat options. If blue, it is on, if white, it is off. If you ever tapped Shuffle from list before, you turned shuffle on thus it is still on.

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