Shuffle-by-album feature!

Hi Folks,
I have an iPod nano 2nd generation for about 5 years now, and perhaps the feature I use most is having shuffle configured to albuns, so I can listen different albuns like in a playlist, yet going sequentially on the album songs. I've recently got a 6th generation iPod nano and I was very fustrated when I figured out that this feature has gone. Is there a particular reason for that? Is there a plan for having that feature?
Regards,

Shuffle-by-album means: play all the songs on the album in order, and then find a completely different album. Lather, rinse, repeat.
In the old itunes, it was pretty simple. Select some set of albums over which to shuffle. Turn on shuffle by albums. Press Play. Old Itunes also appears to have had a pheechur to skip to the next album, cntrl-alt-meta-shift-fast-forward (or something). I never used it, never knew about it, although I always wanted it. You could also click on any song in any album and it'd play all the rest of the songs in that album and then shuffle on to the next album (a usage model much loved by a different participant in this discussion).
The new itunes doesn't seem to have the skip-to-next-album pheechur.
Getting to shuffle-by-albums is a little baroque in the new itunes--the best we've come up with so far is: create a playlist w/all albums over which to shuffle, and then turn on shuffle-by-album on the new playlist, then press play. The new playlist should be named in such a way to appropriately express your frustration with the new itunes.

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Your app looks intriguing, but I have 400+ albums on my Touch and it's a wide variety of music so when I am in the mood for Pearl Jam I would not want Yo-Yo-Ma to pop up randomly. What I would really like and I think would be a killer app type feature is to load a playlist into your app, hit randomize and go. I would even be happy to keep shuffle playlists down to 12 albums!
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I am ready to tear my hair out - since upgrading to iTunes 7, I can no longer shuffle by album when playing songs from my iPod. What I like to do is keep all of my music on the iPod and listen to music with the iPod in disk mode. The iTunes library works fine - it remembers my sort settings, it shuffles randomly by album (as I have it set to do), it keeps the browser window open. However when I switch to my iPod device, it does not do any of those things. Every time I plug my iPod in, the browser is closed, the sort order is back to a default, and when I try to shuffle by album, it just starts playing the first song on the list and goes straight through! I have checked to make sure the Preferences are set correctly (they are), and I have ensured that the shuffle button in the bottom left corner is lit.
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Has anyone encountered this issue?
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This is breaking my head.
I have ripped my CD's in iTunes and now i have a large number of songs.
I have a playlist that is uploaded to my iPod Shuffle.
But my Q is:
How can i shuffle on my iPod shuffle between albums instead of the individual songs.
I have seen the playback options in the advanced section saying shoffle by Album. But that options does not appear to have any effect on the shuffling on my iPod.
Any ideas
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If you want to shuffle a single album go to Settings
-> Shuffle and set to Songs.
The go to Music -> Albums (or Music -> Artists->
Albums), select an album then press Play.
If you want to play albums at random, Settings ->
Shuffle - Album.
When you play anything, it will play a song at
randiom, then play in order the songs on that album
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All well and good... B U T the OP (and this thread) was talking about doing it on a Shuffle:
"...I have a playlist that is uploaded to my iPod Shuffle.
But my Q is:
How can i shuffle on my iPod shuffle between albums instead of the individual songs..."
Get it?

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If I want to load my shuffle with albums, do I make each album a "named playlist"?
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UPDATE: Sorry for the late response but I've been out of town. I can copy and paste the email responses if necessary or desired, and if it's fixed already this is a moot point anyway, but basically they kept asking me for the order numbers for the two songs I already bought from the specific album I was trying to complete, which I eventually gave them - along with telling them multiple times that the Complete My Album feature wasn't working for ANY album. They gave me two free song codes to compensate me for the two songs I bought, and then told me to go and buy the album at full price, but the ENTIRE TIME they COMPLETELY ignored that I was telling them that this wasn't an issue with one album but was a larger, seemingly systematic issue that other people were experiencing. Even after I got the song codes I emailed them back and said AGAIN that this wasn't an isolated feature, and they just sent me the link to the apple Feedback page (http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html) and told me to submit my complaint there.
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Thanks for a completely useless photo albums feature apple...

So just upgraded to iOS5, and today decided to take advantage of the new photo albums feature but moving my photos to folders that actually mean something.
Finally apple let you do this, or so i thought...
However I found that when moving the photos, it does not move them, but makes duplicates.
So i delete the original in camera roll as the whole point of the albums is to not have every photo mixed together in one giant backlog...
Now the photos are gone from all albums!
Not only that, but it seems iCloud which is supposed to backup your phone, doesn't actually back up photos.
Neither can i find anywhere on my computer (iTunes) where the backups/photos are located.
I suppose iTunes doesn't back them up automatically either?
Thanks a lot apple.

Apple can't hear you here.
This is where they can hear you:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
iCloud backs up your last 1000 photos if you have Photostream activated
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