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dinosaur:
I couldn't find much about this in the PDF version of the manual...

Shuffle is appropriate for some playlists, not for others.  I can set the feature on and off under the setup menus.  Then it seems to apply to all playlists until I go back into setup and change it.

Is there any way to turn shuffle on/off on the fly before a given playlist without changing the setup?  I'm thinking of the kind of button most CD players have.

Thanks for the help.

Llorean:
Check out the Quick Menu, which lets you quickly change Shuffle, Repeat, and File View modes.

pixelma:
You could also use "Insert shuffled" on a folder or even on a premade .m3u(8) playlist - I just tried myself:

Invoke the context menu (it's called File menu in the manual) on the folder or the .m3u(8), chose "Playlist", then "Insert shuffled" or "Queue shuffled". This will insert the tracks randomly into your playlist after the currently playing file, but also works when your playlist is empty.

These two options ("Insert shuffled" and "Queue shuffled") are not mentioned in the manual yet, but other possibilities of creating and manipulating a playlist are explained in the "Working with playlists" chapter. I personally prefer this method over globally changing the shuffle mode, especially since my device doesn't offer the quick menu, Llorean mentioned.

dinosaur:
Thanks for the help!  I just tried the 'insert shuffled' menu choice while the setup shuffle option is turned off and it works just as advertised.

As I said above, I also have playlists that I manually edited from the disk contents.  Do you know of an option that I can type in as the first line of the playlist file that also triggers shuffle mode?  If this is possible then some playlists would always play randomly and others would always play in order.

Thanks.

Chronon:
Can't you just shuffle the contents of the playlists that you want shuffled?

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