Shuffle-play by Album as opposed to shuffle-play by Track would be especially important for classical music listeners.
A symphony or other multi-movement piece is usually organized so that each movement is in its own file (or Track).
Then the individual movements are combined into one piece (a symphony, an opera, a concerto, etc.).
Usually there are two or more multi-movement pieces in an album. For instance, most CDs came with two Haydn or Mozart symphonies, since those symphonies are each about 20 to 25 minutes long. Each of those two symphonies, in turn, contain three or four movements (individual Track files).
The solution I've been using is to use an audio editor (Audacity, in my case) to combine the four or five Track files of a symphony into one big Track file. It's a royal pain in the keester, but it's the only way I know of to be able to put your moOde (or other) player in shuffle mode and hear complete symphonies/concertos/operas through the day, rather than hear Movement 3 from this symphony followed by Movement 2 of a different concerto, followed by an individual pop song, followed by another random movement from some random symphony, and so on.
Digital players are designed for music where each individual song is a single track file. I don't know of a player that organizes classical music playback well.
Re: Expanding Playlist - I could see a feature where an Album was randomly selected for playback, plays through its tracks in order (track 1 plays first, track 2 plays second, etc.) to its last track, that Album is deleted from the playlist, then another Album is randomly selected and played (tracks in order), then is deleted from Playlist, then another Album is selected/played/deleted from Playlist, and so on.
A symphony or other multi-movement piece is usually organized so that each movement is in its own file (or Track).
Then the individual movements are combined into one piece (a symphony, an opera, a concerto, etc.).
Usually there are two or more multi-movement pieces in an album. For instance, most CDs came with two Haydn or Mozart symphonies, since those symphonies are each about 20 to 25 minutes long. Each of those two symphonies, in turn, contain three or four movements (individual Track files).
The solution I've been using is to use an audio editor (Audacity, in my case) to combine the four or five Track files of a symphony into one big Track file. It's a royal pain in the keester, but it's the only way I know of to be able to put your moOde (or other) player in shuffle mode and hear complete symphonies/concertos/operas through the day, rather than hear Movement 3 from this symphony followed by Movement 2 of a different concerto, followed by an individual pop song, followed by another random movement from some random symphony, and so on.
Digital players are designed for music where each individual song is a single track file. I don't know of a player that organizes classical music playback well.
Re: Expanding Playlist - I could see a feature where an Album was randomly selected for playback, plays through its tracks in order (track 1 plays first, track 2 plays second, etc.) to its last track, that Album is deleted from the playlist, then another Album is randomly selected and played (tracks in order), then is deleted from Playlist, then another Album is selected/played/deleted from Playlist, and so on.
