Song Shuffle question, how to make it more random?

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Whether using playlists or listening to the complete song listing, the shuffle does not appear to be giving me a true shuffle. I have maybe 3500 songs, some are played the next day, some haven't been played in two years. Playlists exhibit the same tendency, some songs with over 30 plays, some with less than five.
I tried setting up an exclusion in the smartlist where I told it to not put the song on the smart list if it had been played in the previous 20 days. That worked sort of OK, but I had to dock the iPOD every day to keep that working.
Is there a better way to get more random music selection? I have the randomness setting at max (no chance of playing same artist twice). Or at least I thought I did, but I cannot find that setting now.

Make sure you have *Live Updating* ticked in the smart playlist.
On the iPod, start playing a new playlist, then go back to the original playlist and it should be updated (dropping of the recently played songs).
Also, when starting a playlist, go to Music -> Playlists, scroll to the name of the playlist you want and press Play, (not Select).

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