Using the Shuffle Feature on my ITunes

I have created several playlists and all of them work wonderfully, allowing me to shuffle within the playlist - BUT I have one play list that, for whatever reason, will not shuffle. It is one of my favorite playlists and I am getting tired of hearing the songs in the same order over & over. I tried copying all the songs out of the playlist and creating a new one but that didn't work. This play list worked fine (shuffled) in the past but suddenly has stopped working. Any suggestions?

Hello robdaug,
And welcome to Apple Discussions
You can enable the "skip when shuffling" feature for each song you wish not to hear while having your iPod on shuffle.
To enable it, control->click on the song you wish to skip when shuffling in iTunes and choose "Get Info" from the Shortcut menu. When the window pops up, head over to the Options tab. Make sure there is a tick mark next to "skip when shuffling." Then hit OK and sync the updated changes to your iPod.
That should do the trick for you.
Hope this helps.
B-rock

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