The design priority of the DICE UI seems to have been " the iPod UI will now be enabled at all times, so let's look at the most commonly-used options on the radio and leave everything else on the iPod UI".

Me, personally, either leave Random on all the time or off all the time... either way, it's not a commonly-accessed command like the new change playlist- change album commands.

I find that leaving the Random command on the iPod works very well in practice.

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