Shuffle issues in playlist

how do i make it so my playlist will play continuously when i have shuffle turned on?

Thank you so much for propmtly coming to my aid! Unfortunately, I have done both of those things and yet the issue remains, arrrgh. Just for complete clarification(not do to a lack of understanding on your part, but possibley for future viewers), it's not that it won't shuffle, it's that it doesn't play anything after the current song has finished. I have to manually get it to play something else. once I turn off shuffle it plays thru my playlist fine. I tried to play it with repeat on (and yes repeat all not just 1....not that dumb thank god.) and the problem persists. It's pretty frustrating and I am starting to think that maybe something went awry in my recent update of itunes. Again, thank you for responding so quickly. If you have anymore suggestions it would be greatly appreciated.

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