HOW THE HECK DO I...??? Hello,I just bought mine and I pretty much have no problem with it. But I have read the entire manual and I cannot find an answer to this, so I am asking you in hopes that someone here knows how to do this.HOW DO I PLAY THE SONGS (random) OF ONLY ONE ARTIST OR ONE GENRE?You see, the play modes are so unnecessary limited. You can either listen to an entire album or listen to ALL. I haven't been able to discover if there is actually a way to listen all the songs rendomly from only one artist or genre. There must be a way, right??? I mean, it's so annoying that you cannot do that.Thanks a lot,Amator HOW THE HECK DO I...??? Hello,I just bought mine and I pretty much have no problem with it. But I have read the entire manual and I cannot find an answer to this, so I am asking you in... » Read More HOW THE HECK DO I...??? Hello,I just bought mine and I pretty much have no problem with it. But I have read the entire manual and I cannot find an answer to this, so I am asking you in hopes that someone here knows how to do this.HOW DO I PLAY THE SONGS (random) OF ONLY ONE ARTIST OR ONE GENRE?You see, the play modes are so unnecessary limited. You can either listen to an entire album or listen to ALL. I haven't been able to discover if there is actually a way to listen all the songs rendomly from only one artist or genre. There must be a way, right??? I mean, it's so annoying that you cannot do that.Thanks a lot,Amator « Show Less
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Unfortunately, this is my biggest gripe about all MP3 players - PROGRAMABILITY! The only way you're going to be able to play the way you want is to build playlists on your computer and then select random play. Or you can use the bookmark feature directly on the Gigabeat and have it randomly play. There is no way to play just an artist or genre folder randomly.
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You can install rockbox (rockobx.org) in this player, give it a try, it allows you to play songs by an artist or or genre and lots of other fancy and advanced things...
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Wouldn't you expect this to be a basic function on any MP3 player? Not on the Gigabeat. I couldn't figure out how to do it either, and this was just one of many frustrations I had with this dud of a contraption.
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I hope you have figured it out by now because it really isn't that difficult.
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The controls work in a similar way as they do with your personal music on your device. Volume Up/Down work like normal. The next track works if the service offers that. I've used it a bunch with I Heart Music and it goes to the next track until the service says you can't forward any more. This is a service level limit, not anything controlle by our device. Pause/Play also work like normal. Let me know if you need any further assistance, Valerie - Wusic Customer Service
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You get some functions, but not complete control. The up and down arrows raise and lower sound, the left and right will skip to next and last song, and the play button will pause or start it. You cannot, however, navigate menus or anything like that. Its best to start a playlist and use the remote for some simple commands
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I never got any instructions. The seller didn't even know the brand name so I could look it up. My son figured out how to drag and drop music to it but it is very confusing. You have to look at the screen to see what it is on, radio or music. Music makes it play your stored songs. You can raise the volume but it is hard to get it back off that feature. Just look at the screen if you can see it. It is too small for my eyes.
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Yes you just have to set up a play list in advance, or jump around your music to find what you want. I have different play lists for different activities.
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I did not facing this problem. I have more than 100 songs (mp3), and it working well.At first, I also wonder it will function correctly, so i have tried to press next/previous button then the songs is randomly changed.So, maybe you can try to press the next/previous button to see whether it change to others song.
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Ive never heard of those! To download to mine i used iTunes and switched the songs to mp3 format - they have a button for that. Sorry im no help for you
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I have just implemented one way of doing this with the AK 240. You create a playlist which includes a single song. When you choose to play this playlist, the player will play that song and then stop. The procedure is admittedly clumsy, but effective. Moreover, if you give your playlists the name of the respective song, you'll get an ordering of your favorite songs that is more manageable than the listing of ALL songs provided by the device.
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I put 5 CDs in, punch go and it plays them all without further attention. As for selecting Tracks? never tried.Fred
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You play everything through the sonos app, but the app connects to the other services to play the music - it doesn't import anything. I play my Amazon stuff, Beats music, Deezer, etc. - the app connects to each one as it needs to. If the app doesn't know how to connect to a service, you can't play from it, but sonos connects to most that I've heard of (there's a list on the sonos web site), or it will play from a hard disk on your home network.
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Hi Terry,To be clear then..... can you go to that folder, select the first song to play and it automatically play thru every song in the folder.
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I really don't know but the play/pause button doesn't work as should be... What really do is to pass to the next song so you can't pause anything... Aat least not with the device... Well, thats happens to me, but after all I'm really happy with the device because is really cheap, has many pluses and found only one little problem. That's all I can say about, hope it will help you to make your choice and good luck!!!
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You have to have some knowledge of your music library. You have to listen for said artist or album by skipping forward while it is set for random, then switch it to play songs in order and find the song you are looking for. It is easier than it sounds and you can pick it up pretty quickly.
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I haven't tried that feature. We are having a difficult time to get it to shuffle in a playlist so I would think if you assigned it all to the playlist it will play it. To be honest, this wasn't a good purchase...freezes up quite a bit when trying maneuver from folder to folder.
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Yes you can shuffle, you can shuffle everything, the songs within an album, the songs within a genre, or the songs by an artist. That said, mine has the peculiarity that after it's been playing in shuffle mode for a while it takes itself out of shuffle mode and starts playing all the songs in alphabetical order. Must be some sort of software bug. But not a problem. Just takes three clicks to put it back in shuffle mode.
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i have a older mp3 and it has a shuffle option and that's great but it plays the songs in the same shuffle order every time. sounds funny I have 900 songs in mine but have listened to it for so long I can almost tell u what song is coming on next!
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I'm trying to figure this out too. It's the only problem I'm finding with this iPod function. I hate that I can't shuffle the songs. Can anyone help?? Thanks.