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[iamthewalrus]

My music collection has over 34k songs.  It's made up of 513 different artists with 2,318 albums.
I've created a bunch of smartlists by genre, era, etc.
The main one I use has ~30k songs and I always select "Play (Shuffled)".
What amazes me is how lame the shuffle is.  It always favors ~12 artists and certain albums of theirs. For example, it always plays a song from 1 single album by 1 artist.  Every time.  It got to the point that I excluded the artist from my smartlist.   
Anyone else shuffle large smartlists and notice similar behavior?

[Wheaten]

Since you use a smartlist, please try it with adding "Add new modifier" and select Shuffle.
Tested it 46k songs and the are shuffled different every time when I open the smartlist.

I don't know how play shuffled is programmed in MC, but I recall this behaviour from the old days when programming in C++ and VB.
The random function generated a random sequence, but this random sequence was always the same sequence. Back then we need to call this function like RANDOM(RANDOM(1000)).

[iamthewalrus]

Thank you - giving it a go right now!