I get exactly the same behavior as Tony. Many songs from the same artist that only has a few songs on the player with a song or two intersperced between them. This behavior is reproduceable nearly every time my empeg is played in shuffle. For instance, I'm in Richmond VA on business right now. I have one album from REO Speedwagon on my player... The Hits. In a two hour drive here from the airport in Raleigh-Durham, I easily heard 8 or 9 songs from that album, with one or two seemingly random tracks between each of them. This happens constantly.