Andre,
You explained everything that I needed to know. I was hitting the shuffle and repeat buttons AFTER I started playing, which gave me missed results. So here is what thinks look like when I follow your instructions, and everything works:
Related to your comments on always wanting to shuffle all of the songs in a Category, I have that set correctly, but did I also want to turn on the "Shuffle All Songs In Folder Hierarchy" setting, as shown here:
Lastly, some players keep "breaking up" some of my albums, basically showing one album as two albums, with some of the songs in one and the rest in the other. I've created and checked the tags on my desktop using Media Monkey, and these albums show as one album there, not two. What's going on here? Example below where all of the songs are in one R.E.M. album and a single track is in the other album next to it:
I'm glad that I found the Poweramp app. I was using Pulsar or Media Monkey for years and this one blows them out of the water!
Thanks a lot!
Vierwood