Here's what I mean
This is not intended to be sarcastic or condescending in any way, but this has always worked for me so I want to describe it step by step.
I understand that I can use this to play a single album. And I thank you for the explanation.
But that doesn't help much when playing classical music. It's a use case that they broke.
Suppose I decide that want to play, say, Fakename-ovich's 8th and 10th symphonies. I have them tagged so that the 8th is an album and the 10th is an album. I play the 8th as an album. It plays through and then stops. Hurray! Nothing random! Except now the music's stopped. Only through manual intervention at that point can I get it to go on to play the 10th, by manually selecting it.
If I don't want to have to do this start-stop-and-intervene every time, every piece, an album at a time all afternoon long, I can use Up Next. Goes like this. I queue up the 8th and the 10th, I get the 8th, the 10th, and whatever the hell little iTunes Clippy decided I wanted to listen to next, which may or may not include ukulele.
The little checkbox that says, "Don't autofill Up Next"? The one that would perfectly suit my case here? There ain't one. Load two albums into it, and then Mac Clippy says, "You seem to be listening to music! I have loaded up your Up Next queue with a bunch of music you didn't pick! Thank me! No, I can't stop doing that! Thank me again!"
Now, I could put it on shuffle, and get random movements chopped out of random pieces in random order. Or I could make a playlist I'm only going to use once.
Or Apple could turn a feature which is currently unusable for me into one that's exactly what I need, by adding one little checkbox: "Don't autofill Up Next."
Edit: Yes, it is possible to add movements, one by one, to Up Next. But who wants to add each of the 30 Goldberg Variations, one at a time?
I mean, I spent probably two hours with iTunes 11, trying this, that, and the other, because I couldn't believe they'd broken so obvious a use case. But they did.
