Kaleidescape systems have a local web interface that can be accessed by loading
http://my-kaleidescape (
http://my-kaleidescape.local) or http://<device IP>. On those pages, you can access more settings for each of the devices in your system (
http://my-kaleidescape/components.
However, the option to turn off cover shuffling is only available on Premiere line systems. It is not available on Encore systems.
There is a kludgy workaround, however:
There's a little known control protocol command "ALPHABETIZE_COVER_ART" which will change the display of the Cover Art Place to alphabetical order instead of shuffled. The side effect of issuing that command is that from that point on, as you navigate the Covers place, the cover art will remain in alphabetical order and not shuffle.
Unfortunately, it only lasts for as long as you remain on the covers place. If you navigate to a different place (List, Collections, etc) and come back, the cover shuffling behaviour will return.
So if you have a control system (or are handy with scripting), you could connect to your player's IP on port 10000 and issue:
'01/1/ALPHABETIZE_COVER_ART:'
every time you switch to the Covers place and you wouldn't see cover shuffling any more.
Not quite the solution you're looking for but I figured I'd share it anyway.