What would be really cool would be if that checkbox caused everything in that playlist, n-layers deep, to be shuffled.

You've my support too. This is really the way I would expect 'shuffle' to work. At the same time, I'd like to throw in my pitch for a refinement I suggested a while ago. Rather than an option to 'always shuffle a playlist' (in emplode), I'd much rather have an explicit option to never shuffle a playlist. Most of the music I record can easliy be played in random sequence and the method you describe would be super, but there are exceptions. Randomly playing parts of classical stuff doesn't make any sense and there is also some pop and jazz that I'd like to protect from ever playing in a random sequence.

Any chance I could have an emplode option 'never play in random sequence'? Any support?

Henno