Playlist shuffles and plays in random order

My new iPhone 3Gs is driving me nuts when I'm trying to listen to a playlist I created and loaded on my computer. The iPhone plays all of the songs on my playlists in random order. I have the "shake to shuffle" mode off and "shuffle" is not on. I even check to see if the "shuffle" was on in iTunes and it is not. What is the deal? Anybody else having this problem?

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".
See this for a picture: http://www.apple.com/iphone/how-to/#ipod.additional-song-controls

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I just posted this on another discussion about the same topic:
I spoke with Apple today, and they explained how to fix it.
First, plug in the iPod. Highlight the ipod on left side of iTunes. Then go to 'Summary' and make sure the 'Manually Manage Music' is checked. If not, check it, then sync.
Then, drag and drop your playlist into the ipod. On the left side of the ipod name is an arrow. Click that, which will show 'Music' and your playlist. Right click the playlist, then hit 'Copy to Play Order'. This option will not be available if you haven't already checked the 'Manually Manage Music' in Settings.
THEN, hit sync, and disconnect/remove the ipod. When you turn on your ipod the music will still be out of order. You have to press and hold the voiceover button. The voice will list your options, starting with 'All Music', then the name of your playlist.
While you are hearing the name of your playlist, press play on the ipod, and it will play them in the correct order.
And there you have it.
Why so hard, Apple?

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To select a playlist, use the VoiceOver feature. This document explains how to set up and use VoiceOver.
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I am seeing a problem whereby album and/or playlist tracks are being played in random order. The problem is affecting both my iPhone and ipod Nano and seemed to start fairly simultaneously onboth devices. This isn't like using Shuffle - after listening to 1 or 2 tracks in an album or playlist random tracks are being played from elsewhere in my music library. The problem doesn't occur when listening to albums or playlists on my Macbook. I'm running iTunes 8.0.2 on my Macbook.
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Does sound like Shuffle to me. Even if you are not hitting the Shuffle (words at top of playlist), if you ever did, what that really did is just turn shuffle on.
Go play any song. Then tap center screen on the album. Another set of controls appears near top. Repeat, Progress and Shuffle. Blue is on, white is off.

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I am having an issue (it's quite common, according to Google), where audiobooks appear to play in random order om the iPhone, while playing fine in iTunes.
I could not find any fix or workaround on the net, so I'm wondering if anybody here knows the answer. It appears to be some kind of bug in iTunes 9.x and iPhone 3.1, as the same audiobooks used to work fine before. And no, it's not just a question of turning shuffle off.
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I took your advice, though, just to test it. After backing up my current library.itl, I copied and pasted the old .itl file into its place. As expected the playlists, play counts, etc were instantly restored. And now the screensaver fails to work with the dreaded error 'No iTunes artwork found' which makes me think it IS an issue with the old library file. The only work around I've seen so far is to rebuild the library (which I did).
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just got the new Apple TV, which in general works great. Only two problems concerning the music playlists via iTunes:
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Make sure that Shake-to-Shuffle is turned of in Settings>Music
Confirm that the Shuffle is turn off ion the Now Playing screen. Tap the crossed arrows icon on the Now Playing screen until it is white for no Shuffle
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Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Unsync all music and resync
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
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