Wishlist for the ultimate music phone

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Album shuffle.

That is:

  1. Select an album from the list of albums on the device.
  2. Play through that album from beginning to end, in the same order it was released.
  3. Remove the album from the list of available albums that can be randomly selected.
  4. Repeat Steps 1-3 until all albums have been played.
  5. Once all albums have been played, allow all albums to be randomly selected again
  6. Repeat Steps 1-5 ad infinitum.

I love album shuffle, but it’s so hard to find anything that supports it (my phone has about three music apps on it, and none of them do it).

I can get my iPod Nano to do it, but not through selecting anything on my actual iPod: I have to hook it up to my Mazda using Bluetooth, choose “Folder Random” using my car’s stereo, and it’ll actually do a decent album shuffle even after it’s disconnected.

My only complaint is that it performs Step 5 every time it powers off (and it powers off after 24 hours of inactivity, or when the battery gives out). So unless I keep it active and charged, it’ll lose my place, and I’ll have to put up with listening to some albums I heard a few days ago, and not hear others for weeks.

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