Shuffle plays same named songs consecutively

I have found this bug on iTunes 11, which was not present in previous versions of iTunes (10, 9, etc.). The new way that songs are shuffled somehow goes by song title. If one has a few songs with the same song title, these will be played consecutively. This became painfully apparent while playing Christmas music. In my collection I have several different versions of the same Christmas songs by different artists, (and in some cases the same artist as different albums may have the same song by the same artist. I do enjoy all of these songs, but having them repeat is quite annoying.

Hi! Yes, I have also noticed this problem also, but it goes back a bit further than the new version of iTunes. Now that iTunes is much more visually based when it comes to the shuffle function you can see it layed out like your pic shows.
I Have looked into this in the past and again recently with my iPhone 5. From what I was able to find out, it seems that "shuffle" takes you list of music (by song title, A-Z) and shuffles all the songs like a deck of cards.
so if that is the case I can see why all my remixed versions of the same song play consecutively. Like a shuffled deck, not all cards(songs) get separated on one shuffle like iTunes does. Also, it could also be that iTunes detects 3 songs with the same title as one song. if that is the case then I completely understand why this happens.
I have 4 different versions of "Take Me Out" by Franz Ferdinand (live, remix, club mix...) and everytime I shuffle my music... all 4 will play back to back to back to back...
I would think they would have to change the algorithm a bit to fix this, but until then I guess the next best thing would be to change the song title for each song to ge them spread out a bit more. (leading 1,2,3 or A,B,C in front of the title.
Happy New Year,
bulala!

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