Shuffle Problems?

[ChrisJ]

I own an iFP-899 with it's original firmware.

I've noticed in Shuffle Mode it doesn't truely shuffle through the entire music library. It sets a rotation of 'random' songs and then repeats that rotation, ignoring many of the songs in the selected folder (actually all my songs are in one folder).

Has anyone else experience this problem and if so, is there a fix?

[ChrisJ]

Ah, what a wonder...the 'Search' function.

Apparently the problem is possibly two fold:

1) I need to update my firmware to 1.25

Apparently this fixes the non-randomization issue of it selecting a rotation and repeating the rotation in the same order.

2) I may need to convert any WMA files I have to MP3 (someone suggested the WMA don't shuffle)

This would fix the problem of it not playing certain songs on my player assuming they are WMA (I haven't checked.)

[aw614]

Originally Posted by ChrisJ

Ah, what a wonder...the 'Search' function.

Apparently the problem is possibly two fold:

1) I need to update my firmware to 1.25

Apparently this fixes the non-randomization issue of it selecting a rotation and repeating the rotation in the same order.

2) I may need to convert any WMA files I have to MP3 (someone suggested the WMA don't shuffle)

This would fix the problem of it not playing certain songs on my player assuming they are WMA (I haven't checked.)

i never had problems with wma playing in the shuffle

[partyonwayne14]

i also never had problems with wma playing in shuffle. this sounds like an isolated case to me. sorry bub

[Suzanne44]

I just wanted to say I've also had the problem of my wma songs not being shuffled too. As for as changing the wma to mp3 how do I do that? I'm a newbie but would appreciate the help. I understand I could " re-rip.. is that a word?" them from the cd, but what if it's a wal-mart download or something of that nature?

Thanks in advance!

[bassett]

I use the freeware program Media Monkey to convert formats. Google the program name. A search will provide some tutorials as well.

[wulfrun]

Originally Posted by bassett

I use the freeware program Media Monkey to convert formats. Google the program name. A search will provide some tutorials as well.

Worth noting that converting between two lossy codecs is always a bad idea. Encoding the first time has removed quite a lot of information (which, supposedly, you wouldn't hear) amd encoding that again removes more of the remaining information...unless you HAVE to do it, don't!