OK, I feel like a complete idiot, since I'm asking this question after owning an Empeg since, basically, day one, but here goes.

For the longest time, I've had shuffle on, and would play my root playlist, or a subplaylist (say, "By_Artist/Sting"), and that would behave exactly as I wanted, randomizing all the tracks in that playlist around regardless of what subsubplaylist (e.g., "Sting/Soul_Cages", "Sting/BlueTurtles", etc.), so I might end up with one song from one album followed by one from another album, etc.

Life was good.

Then I wanted to listen to a concept album (Operation:Mindcrime if anyone cares) straight through, beginning to end. I realized I had to turn shuffle off to do that, which would then semi-bone future runs through the root playlist.

Is there any way to set up playlists so that it might be like:

/ - Randomize Everything Under This Playlist Equally
/Sting - Randomize Everything Under This Playlist Equally
/Sting/CD - Don't randomize this at all

So if I Select "/" or "/Sting", I'll get "all the songs randomly", but if I select the CD itself, it plays through straight, front to back?

I thought the "randomize the contents of this playlist" was the way to go, all that does is randomize the "immediate contents" and not the descendants of such.

Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong? Or do I really have to manually toggle shuffle on and off when I do this?

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