When in random play mode does it seem to really use your entire music library? My current player seems to pick from the same few tracks.
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Ok Jan! My guess you are really talking about "shuffle mode". This mode ramdomly goes from one song to song to another, but not in the order you have them in. It appears that your player is jumping around from song to song. Check it out. See if you are in the setting " Random Shuffle Mode". If it is! GET OUT OF IT! Hope this helps!
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Sorry. I only had mine for two days and it went crazy. Returned for refund.
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yes it is similar to an apple ipod in this sense. it will never play the same track twice in random unless you completely played all your songs in the shuffle
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Hi Richard,This device can play back music in several modes: random, sequential, repeat (single song, or songs in a folder), into (play a short time for each) etc. These options are preset and you can chose one of them from the menu. Hopefully, it answers your question.Good luck,Hans
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It will play then sequentially. I have so many tracks that I still haven't reached the last one. But, if I remember correctly you have the option to loop, shuffle, or stop at the end.
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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 just put songs on the mini disc. I do not know how to navigate on the mp3 to establish different playlists. Look on youtube and possibly there will be a how to video there?
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I have only used the player to play regular music CDs and play them from beginning to end. However, the owner's manual lists three additional playback modes. There is a random playback mode where all of the files on the disc are played in random order. There is a memory playback mode in which you can make a playback list of up to 25 files. There is a repeat mode. In the repeat playback mode, you can play an entire CD repeatedly, play one track repeatedly, or combine it with the memory playback to play the playlist repeatedly or random playback to play all of the tracks on the disc in random order repeatedly.
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Not very well, so far. It has failed to include my playlists which hold several hundred tunes each. It would take days to manually rebuild them on the Squeezecenter software. if anyone knows how to remedy this i would be gartefull for the info.
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My experience was that it kept re-creating my entire library every time I tried to single out a song to go into my playlist. One of the many reasons I sent it back. Good luck if if's working for you.
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The only way I know of getting your player to play a file (song) and then stop is to manually push the menu button (on top - the one with the forward arrow pointing to the right) all the way down, and pushing it down again when you want to start the music again. I don't know any way for it to stop automatically after playing a file (song) except to run it to the end when it will stop and turn off. Hope this helps.
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When your music is on push the 'menu' button twice. Not too fast. The second push should show 'Random' that is your shuffle. If that doesn't work then when you push menu and it shows folders...then scroll with the right side of the button and it should go to the second page to show 'Random and Intro' scroll to Random and hit 'menu' and it will show a "R" with an arrow at the top, then you know you are in shuffle mode. Hope you can play with it and get it figured out. it took me lots of time to figure it out, It works great for what I got it for. It can be a real pain sometimes. It can be inconsistent at times. Good Luck!
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When i set up folders, I just put all of my separate artists folders into a single folder named Playlist and it played through everything. Try that and see if it works!
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I put my ipod on shuffle and just hit next and it doesn't play the next song in order. You can still hit next when the head unit is in ipod control mode, so there's really no reason to put it in head unit control mode
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it has a shuffle all option which works the same as a random option, when u first choose the music option from the main menu the first choice it offers is shuffle all
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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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I just purchased this player... it works fine, but I have put two different 64gb cards in the player and it does not seem to read the music. What type of formatting is required to match the player?
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I figured out how to remove the pre-loaded songs. Connect your player to the computer and through Windows Media Player, under sync, it will list the songs you have currently in there. Click on the ones you don't want and delete! Voila. It really was racking my brain as well.
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I don't think there is a random mode. I haven't found it. But you can plug in an exteral device like your MP3 player and have it produce a playlist or random list. Remember you have to purchase a mini SD card.