When rhythmbox is launched, I can choose Music, Podcast, Radio and other choices as my mode of play. I set the default settings for shuffle and repeat to ON while I was listening to my music collection. When I selected radio mode and hit play, it chose a randomly selected radio station instead of the one I strategically named to be first (my favorite) on the list. I would like to have the shuffle and repeat settings set as OFF by default when I go into radio mode, but ON when I use music mode. Can we modify the buttons so they retain the settings for each mode instead of globally? Alternatively, I would like to tell rhythmbox which radio station to use as default (of course it would be my favorite) without having to rename the radio station title so that it appears first on the list. I would also like to set which mode I want as default when I launch rhythmbox (right now it always goes to Music, but I prefer Radio) and then have it automatically start playing upon launching with no further interaction. By the way, before play is hit after launching or a mode change, the currently selected station or song is not highlighted. It should be highlighted so that we know what hitting play will do even when we don't explicitly select a song or station.
This is no longer valid as Rhythmbox will not be shipped in Ubuntu after April 2011.