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al1947:
Surely you can implement this at last

Matt:
How are you thinking this would work?

I'm imagining it would play a series of albums in random album order, but order each album inside that by track #.  Is that the ticket?

Thanks.

JimH:
Play a whole album at a time, tracks in order, but albums in random order.

It was big in the '60's, when we had turntables with a spindle you could put a stack of albums on.

al1947:
JimH is dating him (and me). But that's the idea.

iTunes has had it forever (in its current implementation you can chose to set shuffle mode to by album or by track). The original iPod had it built in. Current iPhones and iPads do not, but there's an app for that.

For me the big need is when listening to classical (but also jazz and album rock). Symphonies, for example, are divided into separate tracks for each movement. So the current MC shuffling method would mean you would jump from one movement of one symphony to another movement of another symphony -- no musical continuity.

There are scripting options in MC that can sometime approximate this, but they don't always work.

Matt:
Coming next build:
NEW: Added the playback option Play Shuffled Albums (in track order) to take the tracks and expand them to full albums and shuffle the albums.

Thanks for the idea.

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