Sequence  problem on iPod classic.

Recently downloaded HP & the Deathly Hallows (audiobook) from JKR's Pottermore site, since still not available from iTunes store. Shows and plays in correct sequence in iTunes from my PC but transfer to my iPod classic is not.
Please help.

I haven't actually tested this, but surely the *Recently Added* is for songs recently added to the iPod. So if the songs were already on it, and you then placed them into a playlist, I wouldn't expect them to show up on the *Recently Added* list, because they were not recently added. (Maybe it's just me!)
Back to the actual problem. Consider the playlist where only one song plays in shuffle mode: In iTunes, individually check each song from that list that does not play in shuffle mode; *File/Get Info/Options>Skip when shuffling.* Is the box checked - is there a tick in the box? If there is, that's the problem.
A quick way of telling - play a song from the list *in shuffle mode:* what does the play 1 of X say? If it says 1 of 1, it's almost certainly going to be *Skip when shuffling* set on. But if it says 1 of <number of songs in list>, then the list should shuffle correctly.
Phil

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