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Old 21st July 2008, 19:39   #1
ulillillia
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Sorting songs in the Creative Zen

Earlier, I had the Creative MuVo2 MP3 player and could change tracks within a folder without any problems. With the Zen, even with folders used, they're all bunched up without any organization and it's tricky to get from one song to another without both holding down the down arrow button and repeatedly scanning and the problem gets worse as more and more are added. Although I'm a bit weird when it comes to music (I listen to it at various speeds), here's what I intend on doing with details as to how my system goes:

Each song has a range of speeds, of which always varies (to 20% true speed on the low end to 500% true speed at the upper end). Each speed is a separate track (MP3 file).

Each song is placed within a folder with the folder's name being the same as the song's.

When I press the "next track" button, the next track within the folder should be played which would increase the speed in my case.

All I need is, like the MuVo2 did, to get the list of tracks to be filtered by song (folder) rather than being all bunched together. Here's an example:

070000 First Song
075000 First Song
080000 First Song
090000 First Song
100000 First Song
080000 Second Song
090000 Second Song
100000 Second Song
110000 Second Song

"First Song" is the name of the song and the number preceeding it is the speed (070000 for 70% true speed)

In the Zen's list order, this would show up as:

070000 First Song
075000 First Song
080000 First Song
080000 Second Song
090000 First Song
090000 Second Song
100000 First Song
100000 Second Song
110000 Second Song

It's disorganized. If I wanted to play "First Song", I want to be able to see the order as:

070000 First Song
075000 First Song
080000 First Song
090000 First Song
100000 First Song

In a more common sense, "First Song" would be the first CD and the number would be the track number. "Second Song" would be a second CD with it's unique track numbers. The common user would have the songs sorted based on the CD rather than, in my case, all bunched together semi-randomly.

How do I do this? This is just a shortened example. With likely 1500 to 2000 entries among 60 or so songs, sorting through it is quite ridiculous and I have to press the "next track" button several times to find the next higher speed (or lots of times for a few higher speed notches).

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