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How to switch from shuffled all music playlist to tunes by just one artist?

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timh:
Hi,
I am abit scared of posting, as I HAVE searched for this question and didn't find it, but if I am posting in the wrong place please forgive me !!  I think it's specifically hardware related, but f course software is involved too.

If you have rockbox installed on the sansa e280, is it possible to do this - and how many button presses does that involve?

(sansa is playing all songs on shuffle mode)

You hear a song you really like, and want to play all songs from that artist.  How many button-presses does that involve, and is it easy ? (ie how much wheel-navigation does that involve ?)

Then, how many button-pushes to get back to shuffle-all ?

And which buttons ?

alternatively, would it be easier in folder-navigation mode, if all the folders are ARTIST with sub-folders ALBUM ?

wd appreciate a response from someone who actually does this, not just 'hypothetically'. !!

cheers

tim

karashata:
The easiest way would be either to have your music sorted by artist/album on your device, or you could use the Database to select which artist you want and just play music by that artist.

Chronon:
Take a look at the "queue next" option.

timh:
Hmm.
This was a very specific question I originally posted under sansa 280 hardware, which a friendly moderator has moved here.
The key elements of this question are
 
a) can rockbox software do this ?
and
b) exactly how ?

I don't care how I need to organise my music if it will do it with just one or two pushes. (like on the iriver H340 with iriver's firmware), but it takes a lot of doing on the sansa with sansa firmware, and I was just wondering if rockbox was better/easier/quicker.

so, still waiting for an answer then !!

tim

GodEater:
As I said in my PM, it's not at ALL specific to the sansa hardware. It's a Rockbox usage question. The interface for Rockbox remains the same no matter which hardware you run it on.

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