I know that no one can seem to duplicate this problem, but I was playing around tonight and found out something interesting. Here is the smartlist that I listen to each day:
playlistid==856389893 -[Genre]=[Classical],[Japanese Pop],[Jazz],[Soundtrack],[Traditional Country],[Vocal] [Rating]=>1 [Last Played]=>524160
Note that it doesn't have Sort=random on there anymore. Well, I've removed it.
First off, the playlist that it refers to is my master iPod list. It's just a bunch of rules to exclude artists and genres. So we're dealing w/a list of 3200 songs here.
When I had Sort=Random in there I could be assured that I would get anywhere from 3-4 sets of two or more adjacent artists (The Beatles, The Beatles). That's quite a bit in a list of 100 songs out of 3000--and my list of artists is large.
Anyway, when I remove the Sort modifier, the smartlist is still sorted in a random order, and guess what? 0 adjacent Artists. That's in 10 refreshes. Zilch, nada none.
So, what's up with that?
Adam