Random album playlist on iphone

Hello, so I'm actually embarassed because I'm not able to make any random album playlist on my iphone, maybe due to a new update. Before I made a smart playlist where I choosed to sort my albums randomly, so i can enjoy my albums entirely, then I synchronyze my phone. But since yesterday, when I tried to do this, when I synchronyzed this smart playlist, all my albums were sorted in the alphabetical order, not randomly. If anyone knows how to get to play entire albums randomly on the iphone or at least to get my smart playlist to play in the random order that i made with itunes, i would be very thankful.

Connect the phone to a computer
Click on the phone under devices
Click on the music tab above the picture of the phone in the middle of the screen,
Uncheck sync music -remove music - apply - recheck sync music.
This should remove music from any accounts.
then resync your music

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