Shuffling Songs Within Playlists

I have a 5th Gen. iPod (30gb)0. I need to know how to shuffle within playlists. I appreciate any help.
Thanks

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Go to settings-->shuffle and set it to songs.
Then go to music-->playlists. When the playlist you
want to shuffle is highlighted, hit play.
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btabz
btabz: Thank you thank you thank you. I searched through most of the Apple tutorials for clarification on this issue; they sometimes are quite poorly written. You saved me a lot of headache.

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Storage space on the iPod would not affect shuffled playlists or playlist shuffling, though substantially full iPods may wind up skipping songs on larger playlists after a while, and require a restart. As for compressing the files themselves, you can automatically re-encode files to a lower bitrate by checking the box on the summary page when your iPod is connected to your PC/Mac.
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Don't worry about it. I have read original posts wrong and have tried troubleshooting a different issue than the person was having. After about the 5th or 6th reply, I'll read something that doesn't make sense (in relation to the problem), go back, and realize my BIG mistake!
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enter the Playlist and choose a song that you want to be played first. When that song finishes, another song from that Playlist will be chosen - at random - to be played.
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