Not Random - iPod plays same named songs in a row

I have noticed that the iPod on shuffle mode isnt entirely random. It plays all songs with the same name in a row. I notice this frequently as I have singles, studio albums and live albums on my iPod. Whenever it randomly plays song XYZ, if there are other songs called XYZ it will then play them before the next random name.
On the techie side, it sounds like they are using some sort of multimap and just randomly choosing a key and playing the whole set at this key instead of choosing a set and random and then randomising within this set...
Has anyone else discovered this phenomenon? It is very annoying!
Allan

I am having the same problem to! Any way to fix this!

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