Turn 20gb 4g ipod into big ipod shuffle

Question

This is a long shot, but thought I'd ask.
I recently bought a 20gb 4g ipod with a bad screen.
The previous owner told me the ipod was in shuffle mode so if I hit play it would just shuffle through all the songs.
That is just what I wanted, so I bought it. I thought, now
I just have to put my music on it and I'll have a cheap, large ipod shuffle - perfect.
When I connected it up to my computer, it asked
if I wanted to have it sync with my iTunes library.
I said OK since I wanted my music on their, not the previous
owners. Loaded music on the ipod, everything was looking good.
But now I find it does not shuffle. If I hit play it starts playing what I put on there in alphabetical order by artist.
I'm assuming that when I told the ipod to use a different itunes library it reset some of the other previous configurations as well (including aparently the shuffle setting).
Do you think it is possible to somehow get this ipod to always shuffle again? (remember it has no screen).
I'm hoping maybe somehow I can use my mac to modify the ipod configuration.
As a last resort I'll have the screen replaced, but I'd rather not since I do not really need a screen on this for anything except setting it to shuffle all the songs.

Answer 1

Nevermind, the previous owner showed me how to make it shuffle again without needing to read the screen.
Although I am still curious if this could be done from a Mac.