It is possible to skip albums

Question

I’ve recently had to buy an iPod because Sony’s new players have removed gapless playback and so far I’m extremely happy with it, however I’ve encountered a slight issue and I was wondering if somebody could tell me if it is possible to skip albums and yet still play all songs.
For example, I want to listen to all songs. Via the menu I can select which song I want to start with, after a little time I realise that I want to jump to next album – is there a way that this can be done without just hitting ‘next’ the allotted number of times or by using ‘Cover flow’ because the problem with cover flow or using the album menu is that it will then only play the selected album rather than playing all tracks on the player starting at the selected album. Even using the ‘All Song’ menu is not ideal because it does not automatically go to the current song.
Therefore is there a button combination that will jump to the next album or is there a configuration setting that will allow me to play all songs on the player even if I select an album via cover flow etc. The new Sony players have an option to play ‘all’ or ‘selected range’ i.e. album or artist etc and I think that such a feature, if it doesn’t already exist, would be useful.

Answer 1

Short of marking the albums you don't want to play in the shuffle mode in iTunes (which I believe you are saying you don't want to happen) then there really isn't a way to skip a whole album. I'm a little confused on what you are calling ranodom mode and what you are calling album shuffle mode. When you say random mode, are you referring to when a specific playlist is played in shuffle mode or are you referring to when every song on your ipod is being shuffled? My original answer above was assuming you meant when all songs on the ipod is being played.