A few ways to go about this...

- You could realize that turning off shuffle is just one button (0 on the remote control), so it's really not that tough just to turn shuffle on and off as you need it.

- If turning shuffle on and off has you worried about "songs you already heard" coming up on the next full shuffle, remember that 2.0 will have a weighted shuffle option, so it won't be an issue when 2.0 comes out.

- You could create two separate playlist trees-- one of them called "random" and the other one called "sequential". Mark all the random ones and their children as "always randomize", and mark the sequential list as "ignore as child". Then leave Shuffle off all the time. You could populate the "sequential" list only with concept albums if you liked. This will get you an always-random "down down down" shuffle, but allow you to specifically select Dark Side of the Moon if you wanted.

- As stated elsewhere, you could rip your concept albums as one big MP3.

- Personally, I just shuffle everything, and if a song from a concept album shows up, sometimes I choose to un-shuffle and listen to the remainder of the concept album. Or sometimes I un-shuffle and rewind to track 1 of the concept album.

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Tony Fabris