sorting songs on NWZ-A8**

rangor gubbins · 10 Jul 2008 at 19:56

am i being stupid or is there really no way to play all songs in the right order on my NWZ-A816.
I seem to be able to only play one album at a time, or all songs but in alphabetical order (now really sony, what is the point in that). What i want is to be able to load all songs to play and for them to play in the right order. can't see any way to do it though.

rangor gubbins · 11 Jul 2008 at 08:30

yep that works and isn't too much of a pain. Be better if you could do it on the move though.

rangor gubbins · 11 Jul 2008 at 10:32

bailey12856 said:
yeah thats one of the letdowns for me about the sony (one of the only letdowns) is the lack of being able to create playlists whilst out and about

I would agree. That and limited codec support. Hopefully Rockbox (or something similar) will come out for the Sony NWZ series.

rangor gubbins · 11 Jul 2008 at 13:54

james.miller said:
sort by file structure. if your files are named correctly, they'll play correctly

doesn't seem to be an option on the A816 for that.

rangor gubbins · 12 Jul 2008 at 00:57

james.miller said:
there is, i have one mate lol

from the main (home) screen, music library > folder. then you can browse by folder>filename

I've seen that, but can you load all the folders up so it will play all songs stored in the right order without stopping?

rangor gubbins · 12 Jul 2008 at 09:26

nope it doesn't. If i go to Home->Music Library->Folder->It gives me a list of all artists by folder alphabetically. But to get anything to play i have to enter a folder, which takes me to album names, enter an album, which then takes me into track names and click on the first track. It then loads up all the tracks in that folder not in all the folders. So it will only play all the tracks in that album (or folder), not all the tracks in its memory as i want it to.

I don't know if you're misunderstanding me or if i'm being really stupid. Maybe all your artists and albums are not in their own folders. If everything is in the same folder then i guess it would work.

rangor gubbins · 12 Jul 2008 at 10:03

rangor gubbins said:
I don't know if you're misunderstanding me or if i'm being really stupid.

[wanders off to hang his head in shame]

rangor gubbins · 12 Jul 2008 at 10:08

james.miller said:
:/ lol

i realise that it only loads up a folder at a time. if you play the last track in any given folder it will automatically play the first track in the next folder afterwards. all you have to do is make sure playback range is set to All range. try it, it will work its the only way i play my music on my sony. it was one of the reasons i prefer it over my iphone (or any ipod) - i dont have to mess around with tagging.

it works. awesome dude. thanks for being patient with me

(i had it in 'selected range' not 'All range' before :rolleyes:

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