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Would be nice if you could set a filter by artist.

This works great, turns iPod or iPad into decent music player again. Shuffle works, you can skip a whole album (bit slow to do that), and choose to only shuffle from a genre or playlist. Show more

Update - Just purchased this app in the hopes of replacing the Album Shuffle function. This function is especially important for those of us who like classical music and want to be able to play multiple ablums, with the tracks of each ablum played in their intended order. Set up a simple test case. Created a Genre called "test" which contained 3 albums, 2 of the albums consisted of 1 track each, the third had 3 tracks . Built a shuffle list using filter on genre "test" * however the app would consistently play the 3 track ablum starting with the second track (later determined that the filter function did not pick up the existence of the 1st track. Using the mp3 player app, we able to confirm that the album did contain 3 tracks). Another problem with the app is once you close it, music continues to play. If you look at the active app list, the mp3 player does not show up (so you cannot cancel it). The only way to stop the music is either pause it or manually start up the mp3 app, select something to play and then cancel the app. Show more

I have my songs tagged pretty well, the album name and artist tags are very accurate. Yet whenever I run this app (I've had it for a few months), it picks 1 or 2 tracks out of the 10 - 12 tracks that are on my ipod Touch in a very random order. And when it does have more than 1 track from an album, the order is incorrect!! I do not recommend this app until it is fixed. Show more

First off I'd like to slap the reviewer in the face who thinks this app will magically sort his randomly labelled mp3s. From the dawn of the mp3, everyone knows you have to properly label your ID3s, it's a chore but it's mandatory for anyone seeking order in their collection. On to the app. The good: it brings back the dearly missed shuffle by album feature for those that like a little consistency in their randomness. The bad: it's slow. God awfully slow, even just skipping to the next album. Also unless you select it to draw from your entire library, you'll end up listening to the same five albums over and over and over (it's not as random as it should be). Selecting the whole library adds a bit more variety but increases the LAG factor a million-fold! The code for shuffle by album, interestingly enough, is still hard-wired into the firmware (or so I discovered when my iPod *ahem* "broke" ;-) Might I suggest to the developer to somehow manipulate that or at least look at it to see why their own code isn't up to par. Final word: despite it's shortcomings, it's still an indispensable program. Absolutely necessary to anyone longing for the awesomeness that is shuffle-by-album! My name is Monte and I'm a shuffle-by-album-aholic. P.s. I've been using this app for a good year or longer, through various updates, and these issues I mentioned have yet to be resolved. Show more

Thank you, thank you, 1,000,000x thank you! I don't know why Apple stripped this functionality from its products, but thank you (again) for restoring it...

I was a big fan of the shuffle album feature on the classic ipod I had. That was the only thing I missed about the classic compared to the touch, but with this app, no more. I would have easily paid 10 dollars for this app, glad its 1.99 though. Great app, really great app. Show more

It doesn't work perfectly, but I think the reason why is because it seems ID tag-dependent. This is problematic if you download music from the internet, most likely, and especially if you get songs that are on the same album from different sources. You have to make sure the album names are the same on all tracks (i.e. probably can't have some songs from "Best of..." and others from "The Best of...") and the track numberings are there on all song tags for an album (i.e. 1/13, 2/13, etc). It's a pain in the @ss if you haven't done this and then expect the app to shuffle albums in their entirety/in order, especially if you have a large music collection and/or do manual sync and decide you want to edit tag info to make this app work right (if you do manual sync and want to edit, you can but unless you do the tags both in the music library and in the iPod/iPhone they will be different on one than on the other--too time-consuming to do both). My guess is this works flawlessly for people who have ripped their music collection into iTunes. For me, I get maybe two songs from the same CD in order and the other songs on the CD don't appear--the app just skips to another album--and then down the line it will play other songs from that CD. The CDs where I ripped songs all from the same source play correctly, i.e. songs all in order and the album in its entirety. Show more

I love this app and I use it nearly everyday. I'm frustrated that apple left this out, but this is nearly just as good. I especially am pleased that the developer is very responsive to user requests and bug reports. I would love to see in the future: The ability to select multiple 'filters' especially genres. The ability to see the list of queued albums, even with the possibility that it might get out of synch with the actual iPod queue. A button to go to the iPod app? Is that possible? Thanks Show more

Does not reliably shuffle albums in a playlist -- sometimes it just shuffles songs, sometimes it plays the first few songs from a random album, then jumps to another album. Seems to work OK shuffling all the albums in my library, but not in playlists, which is what I really wanted. UPDATE -- went to the developer's website and saw something about disabling "Album Artist" when using playlists. After I went into "settings" and disabled that, it now seems to work. So I gave it a couple more stars. Show more

Fails to shuffle by album. Just does regular song shuffle.

The only thing I can think to add would be the option to remove "albums" of one or two tracks from the shuffle.

Not a bad app, but I wish it would remember where it left off when I sync or turn off my touch.

I am delighted with this app. Worth ten times what I paid for it. It does exactly what I'd hoped it'd do: patch a sorely missed absent feature on my iPhone. I haven't played with it much yet, but it appears richer in features than expected. Wish I'd come across this solution six months ago. Show more

I would have happily paid $10 for this app. I have always loved my touch, but it was a bittersweet love without the shuffle album feature. The skipping to next album feature is genius and perfect for people like me who can't decide what to listen to, but know right away when it is not. The only complaint I have is that you can select by Genre and Playlist, but not by individual artist. Of course we are only at version 1.2, so there is still hope!! Thanks again Mr. Blakeley Show more

i am having trouble with the album shuffle app playing out of the playlists i'm wanting it to. i'll select one in the settings pane, but it seems to always revert to 'Purchased.' Am i doing something wrong? i miss the shuffle by album from my old ipod, but this isn't really doing it for me just yet Show more

I don't know why the ability to shuffle albums is not available in the iPhone, but I'm glad someone took it upon themselves to make this app. I listen to my iPhone all day at work, and I get stylistic whiplash if I just shuffle songs, so shuffling albums is the best way to go. Plus this app updates your play counts and last played times. Great work!!! Show more

AlbumMixer v1.2 was released yesterday and in now my favorite app for the Touch. I have been missing the album shuffle function a lot since moving over to the Touch as my main iPod and now I don't even care if Apple ever turns it on unless they implement it like Michael has. Awesome! Pick a playlist... shuffle it... don't like the album that popped up first? shuffle it again and off you go. You can open music if you like (shuffle remains in force) or better yet stay in Album mixer where you have access to the skip to next/previous album buttons, pause/play, etc. A simple double click on the home button gets you volume. Truly one of the best apps in the entire library! Show more

I've missed the album shuffle feature ever since I got my first gen touch. This will now be my default method for listening to my music. I had also raised a minor issue I had with this app and it was promptly fixed by the developer. I'm upgrading my rating from 4 to 5 stars. Thanks for this app, it's a great example of what makes the app store so useful. Show more

I have waited for this app ever since I first got the iPhone. As someone who enjoys listening to full albums, but hates choosing which album to listen to I loved album shuffle on every iPod I have used in the past, and was dismayed to find it not available on the iPhone. This app does exactly what it promises to do, and is by far the best app I have downloaded for the iPhone. Thanks! Show more