Eventually, you'll get used to the player's flexibility and won't need the feature you're requesting.

I think it's awfully presumptuous to tell him (and me) that we don't need that feature. I've owned my empeg for a year and a half or so, and I still want that feature. It's not that I'm thinking about CDs. It's that I'm thinking about albums. Usually, when I put the empeg in shuffle mode, it's not really because I want to listen to that great a variety of things, but that I can't think what album I want to listen to, or because I'm in a rut and need it to suggest something new for me.

Honestly, I'm not that happy with the ``unshuffle around'' solution to this problem, but I'm not going to complain about it. It's not really what the empeg was designed to do, IMHO. But given that you always extol the empeg's great database features, it seems like this could be one of them. Just being able to search is not the ultimate of databasing. I understand the issue of ``which playlist'', but there are a lot of solutions to that problem, from marking one playlist as the home playlist to interactively asking the user which one he wants to go to.