Say I'm listening to the whole unit, shuffled. Then a song from Rush's "Moving Pictures" album comes on, and I decide that I want to listen to all of Moving Pictures. Or perhaps I want to listen to all of their "Permanent Waves" album instead.

Almost. Except for I usually use search to get to a particular genre and then shuffle that.

Press 0 on the remote to turn off shuffle. Now I'm in the middle of my unshuffled playlist, at some point in the middle of "Moving Pictures", in the middle of that artist's catalog (since I, too, store everything by artist/album). Then I use >> or << to get to the song I want in the Rush collection.

If it worked like you describe I'd be happier. Perhaps if I was shuffling the entire catalog as in your example. But when I'm shuffling on genre and turn off the shuffle I'm in middle of the correct album (which is good) but the previous and subsequent albums appear to be in random order.

But you've given me an idea. Please tell me if this will work. If I set up explicit playlists based on genre, shuffle one of those playlists, then turn off shuffle you're saying that the empeg is supposed to leave me in the middle of a big playlist but at least the album order will be as I set up in Emplode? If so, that's an OK solution - certainly not ideal but workable. (Of course how workable will depend on the frequency of the bug you mention.)

This ends up being much like my workaround for my other use case - navigating to a particular album but then wanting to listen to another album by the same artist. I now tend to play entire artist playlists instead of individual album playlists. Although it can make for a very irritating number of button presses to get where I want, at least I can hop around between different albums safely while driving. It also somewhat alleviates my problem of having my playlist run out while on the road. At least I can flow into another album by the same artist until I get to a safe point to piddle with the UI.

But even with these workarounds I still feel like I'm fighting the empeg's UI.

-Dylan