Does the player treat all content (internal and two flash drives) as one volume if you tell it to play your music in a random order?
601022
Yes it does! That was something that I was concerned about too. It doesn't matter where the songs are stored, the player sees all locations as a single library. You have the option to display artists, albums, genres or songs. Once you start playing a song from any group you can select to play all of the songs in that group randomly. So if you want to randomly play all of the songs that you have on your player randomly you go into Songs. There's a learning curve with the user interface, but after you get the hang of it you'll find it easy to use.
1331649
Not sure about how well it manages them under the native interface, but if you install Rockbox is manages them just fine, and you can easily create playlists that use songs from either the internal or external drive, songs in different folders.
2025462
It plays as it is recorder in the USB, if it is alphabetically it plays in that order
1198655
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!
574804
Hi there. Yes, there's a shuffle control so you can play songs randomly (which is one of the things I really like about it!)
997154
They are played in the order that the files have been loaded onto the flash drive. I learned this from loading recorded books. I now make sure I load each ripped disc one at a time.
642698
The RANDOM mode would be convenient for many of us, but it repeats certain songs many times before the entire list is played. The NORMAL mode also repeats some songs unpredictably. My unit has given good service for over a year and does what it should except for the above.
2038499
Yes, it will, however I have never tried it. I have about 10,000 songs on mine and I play them all at random.
317773
Yes it does, you short press the "DEL" button to go in to random/shuffle mode.
22464
It will play a folder so if you start the first one it will play the next in sequence is that what you mean ?
782836
yes, although they are arranged by when you loaded them onto it and cannot be sorted alphabetically or any other way. songs loaded will frequently become corrupt as well. pass this one up, spend a few more bucks on a better model and you'll be happy you avoided this awful mp3 player
1958923
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
1627696
It will not randomly play, However when you load your flash drive there is a way I mixed most of my music up so that's its fairly random.I believe it can handle as big a flash drive as you want.I seldom happens but on two or three occasions( over a six month period) it has locked up my radio where I will have to disconnect the battery and let the Honda radio reset.Hope that helps.
2189577
Regardless of music being in folders or not, there's no "Random-Play" option. The speaker DOES remember last song played and resumes from that one. The sound is amazing for a little thing like that. Excellent for laptops' and tablets' speakers.
2224256
Unfortunately not... and in fact it only appears to cycle through the songs in the "root" folder of the USB drive. Another improvement would be to have a "random" or "shuffle" setting for the songs, but as it stands... the only option is to listen to them in the order they appear on the drive. Still, despite these limitations, the little unit has great sound and the FM radio is very good.
1492197
It has "Track Programming" which means you can tell it which tracks to play. Shuffle mode allows you to randomize songs from several disks and since this is a single disc player that's not possible.
1756796
I think there might be a shuffle setting but it is very difficult to see the name of the songs. Whatever order you have your songs listed in a folder, is the order that they play. I found the interface difficult to navigate. I bought this for my 3yr old and decided to return it.