Diario → iPhone Album Shuffle Work Around

Since for some god-awful reason Apple decided to get rid of the album shuffle feature on it's iPhone and iPod touch devices. I went out of my way and gathered this useful work around to emulate this forsaken feature.

1. Create one or more playlists in iTunes that will be transferred to the iPhone (or iPod Touch) -- these are the playlists that will be selected in the "Music" tab of the screen that controls synchronization when your phone is connected to iTunes

2. Select one of them (in the left pane). Make sure it's displayed in order of track number (the left-most column in List view)

3.Switch Shuffle on in Album mode (in iTunes 8.0 this has been moved to the menu: Controls... Shuffle... Albums). The order of the list will be re-arranged.

4. After doing this for all your iPhone playlists, synchronize with the phone.

5. In the iPhone music player, select Playlists, go into the playlist of your choice, and simply pick the first track. Make sure Shuffle is off. You'll be listening to entire albums with their tracks in the original order, and the next album will always be "random".

6. When you've been through the playlist and would like it to be arranged in a newly randomized order, just select it in iTunes, turn shuffle off and on, and sync with the iPhone again.

Let us hope a future update will bring album shuffle back in to our lives.

Let me know if it works for ya ; )

-Slipz

(Source: Hackint0sh Post #17