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Shuffle By Album Free – Windows Phone 7 Edition

Shuffle By Album Free is a simple ad-based application that randomly selects an album, plays the entire album, and then randomly selects another album to play. It is every bit as feature rich as the paid-for app Shuffle By Album, but it does include an ad control which cause cause additional battery drain – this is the major trade off from the free and paid-for versions.
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Shuffle By Album – Windows Phone 7 Edition

Guess I can start talking about this finally: Windows Phone 7 launches today in Europe and the application is in the Zune Marketplace already:

Shuffle By Album is a simple application that randomly selects an album, plays the entire album, and then randomly selects another album to play.

Why? Because I have a very eclectic music collection, ranging from modern rock to ancient art rock to classical to soundtracks… ever jump from Vivaldi to Green Day? Randomly get dropped into one piece of 2112 after listening to an Elvis track, without warning? Realize that all of your music has been recorded at different volume or bass levels that keep you adjusting levels between songs, rather than albums? That’s why I love this app: by playing through an entire album at a time, all of these issues are naturally dealt with.

If you have Zune already installed you’ll find it here: Zune Marketplace – and FAQ is posted below.
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Zune + XNA Game Studio 3.0 = Shuffle By Album

One of my ongoing gripes about the iPhone, the iPod touch, and Zune product lines are that they don’t offer a small, yet useful, feature that the iPod (and iTunes) has offered since 2001: Shuffle By Album.

Thanks to the XNA Game Studio 3.0 development environment and Zune’s support of it, I’ve been able to add this functionality back into my portable media player: my Zune 80.
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