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Originally Posted by JakesFriend
Bookworm_Girl,
I worked on the problem this weekend, and here's what I found: if I have more than one song IN ONE ALBUM, I can get the feature to work as expected. However, my songs are all from different albums; there does not seem to be a way to play them all.
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Ah-ha! JakesFriend, I understand your problem now. I did a few testcases for you. It appears that Sony did not design an All Songs list on the 950, and I can understand your frustration!
The 950 appears to only group songs into albums. I cannot find a way in the settings or user guide to play All Songs. The shuffle and repeat functions work specific to the tracks within the album you are playing. When you are done playing all of the songs in an album, the player stops. To be fair that's how my iPod works too. However, on my iPod I have an All Songs category and that seems to be what is missing on the 950. Sorry, I don't know what else to tell you other than I sympathize with your problem, and I'm sure you are not alone. I assume the 350 & 650 are similar. It would be helpful if someone who owns a 350 or 650 could confirm.
I can't think back that far to remember how my 500 handled songs. I think it might have been a single list ordered by date loaded?
My 505 dumped all the songs into one list ordered by title. That really drove me crazy because I had music of different genres loaded and didn't want to listen to it mixed up.
My 900 was slightly improved. It still had all the songs in one list. However, it added the ability to sort by title or artist so at least I could get songs of an album ordered together.
For me I like that the 950 has added albums. I like that now my music is organized and can do shuffle and repeat specific to an album. When I read, I like to listen to a single album for light background noise. It seems that you are the type of person who likes to listen to a playlist of songs by different artists. I am sure there are many other people out there who also would want this capability. It seems that Sony made improvements to address past user complaints but forgot to keep the original functionality at the same time.