did have to manually copy all my albums into it. It actually didn't take long to set up

I wanted to point this up in case anyone else was having second thoughts about doing it this way. When you first think of the idea of creating a "shuffled albums" playlist, it sounds like it would be a lot of work. But for most people's collections, it actually only takes a few minutes. (With the possible exception of Paul Grzelak's collection. )

Just make a playlist named "(Shuffled Albums)", make sure it's tagged with the "always randomize" flag. Then copy each of your album playlists into it (hold down the CTRL key to make sure they're copies and not "moves"). Make sure they aren't tagged with "always randomize" (they probably aren't). Then just turn off Shuffle on the player's main menu, and play that playlist.