Well I don't know actually. The way I use MC nowadays, and that I really like, is to have album shuffle always on (sometimes normal shuffle as well) when I listen to music in standard mode. This I do about 80-90% of the time I use MC. When it's TV night
, we then switch to Theater View -> Video where I have the movies in Albums to not be bothered with films spanning over two discs. To play a movie, we click the album and choose Play. Here's where the flipped order problem could arise.
But back to your different proposals.
If you are using USBUIRT or IRMAN there is a programmable control in the remote settings for Toggle Shuffle...
I'm not using a remote, I'm sitting on a diNovo Mini which is a keyboard/mouse combo, sorry.
Would it work to leave shuffle off, and then pick "Shuffle All" instead of "Play All" in Theater View audio?
I don't want to manually shuffle stuff, it would demand an extra click everytime I play a new playlist or album or anything. Most of the time, I do enjoy automatic shuffling.
But one thing that struck me is that Album Shuffle doesn't shuffle a whole album, right? Should it then shuffle Disc #? I'm not 100% sure it does, but I believe it might.
So, if Album shuffle mode works, I would go for that I think. But most preferable would of course be to set which mode you want in Theater View confguration, and I think it makes sense since every view is so special compared to normal views.