[Apple iPod] Shuffle, is it really?

Can anyone explain what Shuffle does. I would assume that it would randomly pick tunes
(when shuffling Tunes) but again and again I find that out of a choice of nearly 7000 songs it
will most often pick more than one from the same album within the first half hour of playing.
How does the programming behind shuffle work does anyone know. Is it trying to be clever
and pick some tracks from the same albums to create a sort of pseudo random conformity
(that sounded good eh?) or what?
Jules

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