AlbumMixer 1.2 is now available. This update includes features that users have requested: a “next album” button, and the genre-based shuffle, and playlist-based shuffle. The UI is also much nicer, IMO. And the basic album shuffle still works, too.
Besides all that, this update includes a change in the official app name to “AlbumMixer – Shuffle by Album”. Just a few minutes after that change went live, app store searches for “album shuffle” began to show AlbumMixer as the third match (finally!). So there’s a lesson here for iPhone developers: if your keywords might be confused with an existing app, embed them in your application name.
AlbumMixer is easily the best and most important app I have bought.
I was dying with a ’shuffle by album’ feature, and the recent updates to AlbumMixer have made it fluid and easy to use.
My only request: Please provide an option for users to Select an album to start listening to, and then shuffle after that.
I believe your app generates a playlist of shuffled albums, so I would think ti would be easy to simply let the user pick the first album to be tossed into that list and then generate the rest by shuffle as it does now (?)
Thanks again for a great app!
Once you’ve upgraded to 1.3, try this:
* launch iPod
* start playing the album you’d like
* launch AlbumMixer
* in Settings, enable “Shuffle automatically”
* tap “Done” to exit Settings
* leave AlbumMixer running until the current album finishes
I know that isn’t perfect, but it was too late to add any more features to 1.3. I’m looking for a way to implement what you’ve asked for in 1.4 – but it isn’t nearly as easy as it sounds!