feature request: group movements of a larger work

[b-k]

Many works, especially those in the "classical" realm, are broken up into several tracks but intended to be heard as a unit, such as a symphony in four movements. For these, shuffling by track makes no sense.

The user can't just sort the playlist Phonograph produces from the 'shuffle all' option, because a work whose track order might be listed in the mp3 tags as Scherzo - Adagio - Presto - Andante will be alphabetized to Adagio - Andante - Presto - Scherzo.

One solution might be to add a group-by feature. When users select several tracks in the album or artist view, a menu option would allow them to be marked as a group. In shuffle mode, the group would always play as a single unit.

This is not quite the album-shuffle feature request of issue #75, because "classical" albums typically have several works on a single disc.

[arkon]

This is a rather complex use case, so I don't think we'll get around to this anytime soon unfortunately.

[b-k]

No worries. My workaround was to write a script to produce static shuffled playlists: https://github.com/b-k/ludwig_van_shuffle . The resulting m3u imports into Phonograph nicely.