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Originally Posted by DerAlte  Hello, the HU is doing EXACTLY as it is supposed to. You ask for "Next Track" and expect a random track to be selected? You ask for "Next Folder" and expect a random folder to be selected? You select Random, and you expect HU to do its job even when YOU finger the scheme and do something unexpected? |
Completely disagree. The HU is doing "EXACTLY as it is supposed to" from the point of view of some twisted Pioneer engineers, not how 99% of people and mp3 players think / work. If you look at any mp3 player that has a "Random" (a.k.a. "shuffle") function you will see that once you turn random on, next track means next
random track and not next track in order. In fact you need not even limit yourself to physical mp3 players, just look into your favourite mp3 player software (winamp etc.) and you will see what I see holds true for
everything except Pioneer HUs. (I can't speak for other brand HUs though). This is the first time I have come across such a stupid design for a mp3 player (HU), and considering how much I paid for it, I am very disappointed (especially since it can't even handle playlists as discussed elsewhere). I mean if I wanted the next track in order, hell, I wouldn't have random on!!
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Originally Posted by DerAlte What you want is the functionality "SKIP" (skip whatever is currently being played). |
No, what "Skip" does is play 10 seconds of each track till you settle on the song you want to listen to and press "Skip" again. (This is also how this feature works in radio/tuner functionality). "Skip" has got nothing to do with which order the songs are played in.
As for the "corrupt" file bit - let me clarify. I think what the person on the other forum meant was that you put an empty mp3 file at the start of the folder (after all the HU has to recognize it as a mp3 file) and that way when you press ^ (Up) and it plays the first track (i.e. the "empty" track) it plays through it instantaneously and then selects a random track to play next. Theoretically, this should work well, apart from the annoyance of having to put this file in 40+ folders manually. Am going to try it in a bit and will report back.