Shuffle on album level

[TheOldPresbyope]

Shuffle-play by Album as opposed to shuffle-play by Track would be especially important for classical music listeners.
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If you change that to "shuffle-play by work/composition" then would I agree.

Some of the works in my classical collection, notably operas, were spread over multiple CDs, some of them were combined on multiple CDs, like Beethoven's 9 symphonies as recorded by a single conductor/orchestra/related-sessions, some were combined on a single CD. Shuffle-play by work would allow me to chew through my collection during casual listening in the way a good classical radio station does. (Candidly, though, I'm usually focused on a specific work or predefined playlist of related works. I let Internet radio and music streaming services fill in my periods of casual listening.)

Some folks would still want shuffle-play by album; think theme albums like "Tommy" by the Who. [edit] I think of this as a work.

Whether shuffling by "album" or by "work" is the choice, the question for me is, what metadata/track naming/file organizational structure would be the primary key? I really don't want to combine multiple tracks into a single file plus cuesheet to get there but I admit I've considered it in the past.

Regards,
Kent