I suspect shuffle on iTunes isn't as random as they want you to think

Seems like it's always going from black/death metal to something poppy.

Sure... that's almost like all my library consists of... but you think you'd get more consistency in one musical spectrum.

I use Itunes DJ, that way I can somewhat choose what I want to hear on random. You can vote too.

Kind of takes more of the randomness out of it. Which defeats the purpose to me. I could make a playlist if I wanted to be able to select what was coming up.

I end up skipping a lot of stuff on shuffle because I don't want to hear it. So this way I can' still have the shuffle with stuff I want to hear. I don't want to hear anything specific, I don't make playlists.

Shuffle tends to suck. I often get back to back songs by one band.

I have 21,374 songs so shuffle works a little better when you have a more robust library.

I've got less than 7,000.

My iTunes consists...

2530 songs
148 Artists
216 Albums

No wonder I get multiple songs by one artist playing one after the other when I have shuffle on. Just by looking at the song count I thought I'd have more artists.

1,754 Artists
2,960 Albums
21,374 Songs