Playlist in random order

1. How do I play a playlist in random order?
Note: I am not asking either of these questions:
2. How do I play my entire 60GB of songs in random order
3. How do I play an album in random order
60GB video ipod
Thanks for your help!

Main Menu -> Settings -> Shuffle -> SONGS
This plays playlist in random order.

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Within my various playlists I've set them all to be 'shuffle' by clicking on the shuffle button in the bottom-left of the itunes screen (the button turns blue to show it's been depressed). However, all the playlists still play in the default order. This also happens in the main music window.
I get so bored with the same old tune starting each time I switch my ipod on! (It happens in both my ipod classic and my iphone 3GS)
I'd also like to have my podcasts play automatically in the order they were added. Is that possible?
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How they play and how they are displayed in iTunes are two different things.
If Shuffle is turned On, the songs will play shuffled. If you sort on the first column (with the numbers), the songs will be sorted and displayed in the Shuffled order. (turn Shuffle off and on and songs will be displayed in different order)
If you sort on any other column, the playlist will still be displayed in that order but the song playing song will jump around.
If Shuffle is turned Off, songs will play in order of the column you are sorted on.

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I have many tracks in my iTunes, but very little of the music is entire albums, most of it is odd tracks from albums, downloaded tracks, and bits of radio recordings over the years. There are also a number of complete talking books on there.
This is all organised in 20+ playlists and works well, but what I would like is it to be able to play the tracks within one or more playlists in random sequence, so I don’t always get the tracks in the same order.
I have looked up “shuffle” but despite reading the help files several times, I can make little sense of it, and there is a thread here http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3922734&#3922734 that starts to answer it, but it suggests that (if I have read it correctly) that the shuffling is turned on in the iPod rather than in iTunes. I have a nano and the “Shuffle” option only has three options, Songs Albums, and Off. No mention of playlists.
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Thanks Meg - that does it. Fantastic. Marvelous.
So simple when someone has told you how to do it! I don't think I would call it intuitive though
Thanks again.

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From the Now Playing screen, tap the album cover to see the additional song controls. Makee sure the shuffle symbol on the right side under the scrubber bar is selected to "white".
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it's been a long time since I have made a playlist in iTunes and I know see that creating a playlist with a random order seems no longer possible. No, I DO NOT want to shuffle on my iPod because I have other playlists that I want o segregate from the one I am dealing with. I can't stand the new iTunes and it is very frustrating. I am sure Steve Jobs would be screaming if he were alive. Apple used to be the INTUITIVE computer. No longer so. Sell your stock. Quick.

and then they will be sorted in the correct order.

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When you say the songs are listed alphabetically is this when looking at the iPod while connected to iTunes, in the iPods Cover Flow, Album & Artist Menus or within your playlists. If a playlist is showing up in the wrong order, arrange it iTunes the way you want, then right/option-click on the playlist title and click on Copy To Play Order.
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