A:Answer There is no "Shuffle" mode available for playback, there is only "Random" mode - which, as others have said, plays tracks randomly from a single CD until it has played all tracks from that disk, then switches to an other CD and begins randomly playing that disk's tracks. The unit most definitely does not play a track from one CD, then randomly switch to another CD and play a random track, then randomly switch to a third CD and play a random track. It's nice that the Sharp did that, but this unit absolutely does not.