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blgentry:
al1947,

I'm not sure that what Matt has in mind is what you want.  Please explain with an example, how you would like to shuffle by albums.  Describe the process you would use.  You don't have to give a ton of detail.  Just tell us how you would select the albums to be shuffled and when you would want that shuffle to happen.

Brian.

al1947:
Sure. What I have in mind is this:

Let's say I am playing a playlist that has a specific selection of music. Example: genre: classical; rating: equal or greater than 4. I would like to randomly shuffle by album of those selected track, but only those tracks.

Why? Not uncommon, for example, for a recording of Beethoven symphonies to include one work I want to hear and one I don't. If the album shuffle mode expands to full album, then the work I don't want would be played.

Think of this example playlist:

[Media Type]=[Audio] [Genre]=[Classical] [Rating]=>=4 ~sort=[Album],[Disc #],[Track #]

I would like to preserve the order of tracks within the album, but randomly shuffle the order of the albums

blgentry:
Yeah, Matt's solution won't do that at all as far as I can tell.  Perhaps the JRiver team likes your idea and could implement a "reshuffle by album" feature, which is pretty much exactly what you're asking for.

Player > Shuffle > Reshuffle (by album)

Complimented by a mode:  Player > Shuffle (by album)

Brian.

al1947:
Matt,

Your feature is working as advertised... thanks.

Any possibility you might add it to the choices on the shuffle icon? I almost missed it in the play options context menu.

wburkett:

--- Quote from: Matt on July 24, 2017, 10:04:57 am ---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.

--- End quote ---

I've been wanting this feature forever -- ever since I bought MC!!! 

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