Doesn't really work for a couple reasons:

1.) It's not like I was wandering through the root playlist, heard a song off of Mindcrime and said "Hey, that's what I'll listen to"... it was one of those, "get in the car and decide.. hey I want to listen to Mindcrime".

2.) That would only work if you happened to randomly hit the first song. Otherwise, you'd have to hit random_song, punch 0, track-back until you got to the first one, and then let it go, remembering to turn shuffle back on afterwards.

3.) Encoding as a single MP3 prevents single-songs from the album from being thrown into the random mix. This might be almost necessary for some concept-albums (like maybe The Wall), but with something like Mindcrime, they stand on their own pretty well, and do well when I hit them randomly and out of order in the 3000+ long root playlist.