Songs from same artist/album "sticky" during shuffle in iTunes for PC

When shuffling playlists, especially larger ones, in the Windows version of iTunes, it always grabs a random, indeterminate number of songs from the same artist/album and throws them into the queue consecutively, essentially negating the random shuffle functionality. See example. This does not happen when playing the same lists on iPhone/iPad, only from the desktop. This is a longstanding frustration. Is Apple aware of this issue and is there any sort of known remediation? TIA



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Windows, Windows 10

Posted on Oct 16, 2025 9:11 PM

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Songs from same artist/album "sticky" during shuffle in iTunes for PC

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