# AlbumMixer - Shuffle by Album — user reviews > 59 indexed App Store user reviews of AlbumMixer by Michael Blakeley, rated 4.50/5 from 13 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/albummixer-shuffle-by-album/id329552764/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/albummixer-shuffle-by-album/id329552764.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 8 · 4★ 3 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 0 ## Newest reviews (15 of 59) ### 4/5 — essential app *2020-06-23* Tried to contact developer through the app, which is in the settings. Problem is, no email ever popped up, so I’m leaving feedback here. Filtering by playlists isn’t available in this version, but filtering by genres is. The app doesn’t see the playlists. Or perhaps there’s a toggle in settings that’s broken. Hope this is fixable and if so, fixed soon. ### 4/5 — Useful features that should be standard *2018-12-28* This app has useful features that should have been standard in Apple's music player. Since they are not this app is great. Beware that as of the current version 1.22 filters are unreliable and you may end up hearing stuff that should have been filtered out. I contacted the developer about this so hopefully it gets fixed. Update: the dev worked with me to quickly solve the filter bug. Yay for responsive devs! ### 4/5 — On widgets *2018-09-16* This is a good app, only wish I can put it on the widgets list ### 4/5 — Can't choose first song *2015-01-14* I really love this app for letting me finally shuffle albums on my iPod touch. However, one of my biggest problems is that you can't choose one song or album to start and then shuffle from there. If you already have a song playing, once you open this app it will disregard the rest of the Album playing and start a new queue. Being able to choose a song from the app interface would be great too, instead of having to keep going back to the Music app to choose a song. This would get 5 stars if you could do something other than simply shuffle your library. ### 4/5 — So good! *2014-11-19, version 1.20* Well worth the money. I would give it five stars if it allowed you to shuffle more than 50 albums to eliminate repeats. ### 5/5 — Couldn't do without it! *2012-04-02* First and foremost, for me to get through my cardio sessions, I need my music! So when my iPod 4th Generation started to act up, I went out and got an iPod Touch. All was good and I was impressed and excited until I realized there was no loger shuffle by album!!! :( I live for this feature! I have my favorite albums for cardio in a Playlist and then I would use that shuffle by album feature to randomize by album. I seriously considered returning my iPod Touch because randomizing by track would definitely NOT work for me. I really couldn't believe the feature was missing, so I thought I just didn't know how to do it. That's when I turned to the internet and found out that it wasn't me after all and then I found this great app! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! Very highly recommended. In the previous version, I noticed some bugs with the randomization feature because some albums would replay a couple of albums after they had been played. I'm hoping that this is fixed in this new version. Still, is is a small annoyance to pay for not having a feature I desperately need while doing my cardio. ### 5/5 — Must-Have App *2012-03-31, version 1.11* As a listener of full albums, I had to have this app. Works perfectly and is light and simple, offering up a feature that should be built-in to iOS in the first place. ### 5/5 — Works Very Well! *2012-03-30, version 1.11* Restores functionality sorely missing from the stock app. If only you could shuffle albums through HomeShare! ### 5/5 — Every day *2012-02-20, version 1.10* I use this app just about every day. It is functional, fun, and well designed. ### 5/5 — AlbumMixer 1.10 *2012-01-05* Great app! Glad to see there are other people that are just as particular about their library as I am. Now if there was a way to view [Artists>All Albums>All Songs] in their proper album-order instead of alphabetical order. I've been putting number codes in front of the track names to achieve this. For example, [0101 - This Is a Call] would be the first track on Foo Fighters' first album, and [0604 - Long Road to Ruin] is the fourth track on their sixth album. A very tedious process! Please help!!! ### 4/5 — Feature Request *2011-12-17, version 1.10* Great app that should be a feature of the music app anyway! Would get 5 stars if it allowed track ratings. ### 4/5 — exactly what I need, with a few suggestions for improvements *2011-10-06* Album shuffle was the one thing that the iPod Touch and iPhone didn't have, and it irked me to no end. So I'm incredibly grateful for this program which does more than just album shuffle, but also allows you to shuffle within a playlist or genre. It's great to have that kind of flexibility! The program links seamlessly with the iPod music player, which is nice too. A couple suggestions for improvements: 1) speed up the shuffle (right now, when I shuffle to the next album, it has to skip every single track in the current album one at a time, which is slow) 2) similar to the volume control, make it possible to access lyrics directly from the program 3) being able to shuffle by artist would be nice 4) I wish that while the program was actually shuffling, I could access the filters. The shuffling takes so long sometimes and I haven't even picked the correct filter. Otherwise, it's exactly what Apple should have included in their original program! ### 4/5 — Has its bugs *2011-07-26, version 1.9* Would be nice if you could set a filter by artist. ### 5/5 — Perfect! Albums, skip to next, filter to playlist *2011-04-26, version 1.8* 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. ### 5/5 — Great App Ads Missing Functionality *2011-03-29, version 1.8* I honestly can't believe that I had to buy this app, but i'm glad that I did, works like a charm. Shame on Apple for not providing this functionality. This closes one of the largest feature gaps on the iPhone. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Great Idea, but Crashes Unexpectedly... *2015-01-13* This app is wonderful... when it is working properly. However, my experience is that it randomly crashes my iPad when I hit the "skip album" button. Let me be clear, it's not just the app that crashes, it causes the iPad itself to reboot. When I reported my problems, the message I received back was dismissive, and they only wanted to blame Apple rather than admit that they had problems with their app. Also, a lesser problem is that the app ignores the orientation of the device and defaults to a vertical presentation, even when it was previously opened in a horizontal orientation and not moved before opening the app again. In short, this app is a great idea with poor writing behind it, and it does not deserve the high ratings it has received until they can fix these problems. ### 1/5 — Albummixer 1.8 is not ready for prime time *2011-03-25* 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. ### 1/5 — Does not work *2010-06-23, version 0* Fails to shuffle by album. Just does regular song shuffle. ### 2/5 — doesn't work well according to tags *2011-02-23, version 1.7* 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. ### 3/5 — Defeats the Purpose *2019-09-23* This app has a nice interface and seems to be better than some others at picking truly random selections, but it is worse than the free apps when it comes to maintaining a playlist. I want to shuffle albums on my car stereo with some continuity (actually listening to a whole album followed by another). If I get out of the car for a few hours and do some other things on my phone, this app “forgets” the playlist it had going. I don’t want to start a new shuffle every day, or even multiple times in a day. ### 3/5 — Nice idea, but ... *2016-04-04* I really want to like this, but there is a flaw in the randomization algorithm. The same group of about 20 albums (maybe more or less, I've never tried to count) is shuffled over and over and re-shuffling simply changes the order rather than loading a new group of albums. So if you wait long enough you just end up listening to the same things over and over again while the majority of music on your device is ignored. This is the only thing that is stopping me from using it regularly. ### 3/5 — Almost *2011-10-23, version 1.10* This works, but it asks me to shuffle every time I go into it. And with 4400 albums, it takes forever to shuffle. Why can't it keep playing from the same shuffle, instead of asking for a new one every time. ### 3/5 — Decent. Functionality with flaws. *2011-02-22, version 1.7* 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. ### 3/5 — Unreliable *2010-06-30* 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. ### 3/5 — Good for genres, not for playlists *2010-05-11, version 0* This is a nice way to shuffle by album either across your whole music library or just within a particular genre. But playlists take too long to load and then the songs within each album don't order properly, with playback not always starting from the first track in the album. I agree with the other reviews, e.g. total # of tracks per album always showing as 0. Overall I think that this app is expensive for what it does when there are others that do this and at least one is free. Might have given 4 stars if playlists worked better. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Just what I needed. Would love CarPlay. *2026-04-23, version 1.31* The app is great. Super easy to use and just what I wanted/needed for music. I hope to see a CarPlay app soon too. ### 5/5 — Thank you for this! *2021-11-24* I was incredibly disappointed that Apple removed the “shuffle album” option. This is a simple and effective replacement! ### 5/5 — Absolutely delighted! *2021-04-13, version 1.28* Thank you so much for this! I adore my iPod classic, and this function is one of the reasons why. This works perfectly with music transferred via iTunes (I’m currently using an iPhone 11). I’m off to do my happy dance now! ### 5/5 — Excellent *2021-01-06* I really like shuffling by album and this app does not disappoint. Also excellent timely responses from Mike if you run into any issues. ### 5/5 — Album Mixer *2017-12-03* Great job Michael, my old iPod classic would shuffle albums. Although the new iPod touch doesn't have this feature. Thanks to this great app I can once again listen to albums in their "completeness". Brilliant. ### 5/5 — Very good app *2016-06-21, version 1.21* Does exactly as it says on the tin. It's first album shuffler that has suited my classical music only gendre. It shuffles through the entire collection well, not giving too much of one particular composer. Well done Mr Blakeley, although I don't know why Apple didn't think about putting an album shuffle mode on the Ipod Touch, epecially when there was a perfectly good one incuded with the Ipod Classic. ### 5/5 — Yes!!! *2016-01-06* Really missed album shuffle. This app is the perfect solution. ### 5/5 — Continues to be the best *2014-11-12, version 1.20* Couldn't listen to my music collection without it. Works flawlessly with iTunes Match. ### 5/5 — Great app *2014-09-03, version 1.19* Great app, user-friendly interface, and excellent customer support. ### 5/5 — AlbumMixer *2013-05-24, version 1.16* Wow, i can't thank you enough for this app, so missed that feature from apple, glad someone brought it back. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-07-17.*