Album-Shuffle Mode

[bigboipete]

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Feature description

My suggestion is an album shuffle mode, that considers full albums being the items to shuffle. This mode should play all songs of one album in it's orignial (tagged) song order and then switch to anothor random album.

As a fallback for missing track-numbers, alphabetical songorder could be chosen. If it's a mixture of both, it could be all available track numberes ordered first followed by the remaining album tracks in alphabetical order.

To expand this feature a bit more, there could be an option in the settings how to handle albums spanning over two or more disks, to keep each disk of an album sperated or consider all as one entity. To ease implementation efforts and looking at my personal preference, I would rather go with all disks belong to one album - no split.

Why do you want this feature?

If you like the concept of an album as a complete collection of songs and as one entity of an artits's output, it is currently not possible to apply this to a shuffle mode.

Additional information

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