When I'm listening to a long shuffled playlist, and I suddenly want to add to it by either searching or locating the proper playlist, I would like the newly added tunes to be shuffled-in with the still unplayed tunes prior to the addition. Currently I can append, insert, or enqueue, but these place the added tunes all together. I know that after adding I can press "shuffle" twice, but that may move some tunes I have already listened to past the current position (it can also move tunes I have not listened to before the current position).

Wouldn't it be nice to have "shuffled" in addition to insert, enqueue, replace, append?

Funny, I was thinking I'd want an opposite feature... "Insert Sequential".

It'd work like this:

Let's say I'm shuffling a huge playlist. And I want to insert a single album to play sequentially. As it stands right now, I turn off shuffle then insert that album. But I'd rather leave shuffle on so that the shuffle can resume naturally after the album is done playing. So I'd select the album's playlist and press-n-hold, and select "Insert Sequential". It would insert the playlist sequentially right after the current song, even though the current mode is shuffled.

My favorite use for this would be CarTalk episodes on road trips. I could leave the long music playlist shuffled, and once in a while, stick in a CarTalk episode without interrupting the flow of things.

I'll note that in both cases (your suggestion and mine), all it does is save us keystrokes. The same effect can be achieved in my case by re-shuffling "Least Recently Played" when the CarTalk episode is over. In your case, it could be just pressing down-right-down-down twice in a row.

I know that after adding I can press "shuffle" twice, but that may move some tunes I have already listened to past the current position (it can also move tunes I have not listened to before the current position).

Actually, shuffle mode takes care not to do either of those things.

Peter

Peter,

I thought that would be the case, but I don't think it takes care of the issue. This is an example I just tried to make sure:

Currently playing 134/2804, shuffled.
Press shuffle once, currently playing 1432/2804, unshuffled.
Press shuffle again, currently playing 119/2804, shuffled.

So the position of the playing song changed from 134 to 119. There must be 15 songs I already heard that will come up again!

Note that if I again press the Shuffle button two times, the position will remain 119/2804. But this never happens the first time I shuffle-shuffle.

-Julio

There must be 15 songs I already heard that will come up again!

Are you sure you hadn't skipped them?

Peter

I'm not sure. So you are implying that the shuffle behaviour considers skipped songs as unheard, and places them after the current position in the second shuffle press? That is impressive. I will verify. Thanks.