agree with your original request. And it seems like I'm the only one that fully understands you.

For the record, I strongly agreed with this request too. Some have written this kind of request off as being "un-Empeg like." I say that any feature which makes it easier for me to hear the music I want to hear at a given time is a Really Good Thing. The "un-shuffle around" solution is *not* ideal.

This feature is not easy to implement given the fact that the player doesn't have the concept of "albums." All it's got is playlists and FID metadata. As Tony mentioned, matching an artist and source field together to create another index doesn't necessarily do the job for compilations. Furthermore, using just the source field doesn't work because of albums with names like "Play" (Moby, Squeeze, Doug. E. Fresh, Reset) or the ever-popular "Greatest Hits."

So for a solution that works for everyone, Emplode and the player would have to have a UI and a database which allows the user to designate certain playlists as albums. Then each song which is part of an album would have to have a pointer to some kind of album structure in the database. This would require some extra work but I can't see how else the player could figure out what an album is given the flexible nature of the database.

We're in general now, and I haven't seen this feature asked for in Wish List, so I'm going to go cross-post.