Song List Won't Shuffle on iPhone

My iphone has just recently refused to shuffle songlists. I tap shuffle at the head of the list, a song commences and just repeats. Also when I tap an album cover and tap the shuffle icon and it goes blue, the same first song repeats...no shuffle. Anyone know what to do?

Hello Christiansted,
Welcome to the Discussions Boards.
In addition to shuffle, you probably have repeat enabled. When you tap the screen or cover art while playing a song, the scrubber bar has the Shuffle button at the right end and the Repeat button at the left end.
If the circular arrows are blue, it will repeat the album or playlist.
If the circular arrows have a small number 1 on them, it will only repeat one song
If they are white, Repeat is off.
The User's Guide explains this on page 63:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/enUS/iPhone_UserGuide.pdf
Hope that helps,
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