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doesn't work well according to tags
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 lessddb101
Decent. Functionality with flaws.
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 lesssalazam
Great app
I have tried several shuffle album apps looking for that perfect replacement for the old iPod classic.
This is the first one that actually works well. Love it.
Only thing I would like is for the icons to be a bit larger on the iPad version.Solhawk
Thank You!
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...Pipkin
best app ever
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.DeuCe P.
Not perfect
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 lessrensational
Love this app; keep up the great work
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?
ThanksShow lessyazilikaya
Unreliable
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 lessanyasmom
Does not work
Fails to shuffle by album. Just does regular song shuffle.RodneyB
Great app for album shuffle functionality
Apple have mysteriously taken away the facility to shuffle by album in the iPod on the iPhone. This app restores a similar functionality. The only things I wish for of it (unless apple deliver first) are:
-tracks should be queued on the ipod in track order. On mine they are queued in reverse
-speedier operation (although the way the app is meant to interface with itunes are likely to blame)Show lessTopdown123
