ZEN: How to play successive playlists like in a ZEN Sto

Is there anyway to set the playlist so that they play one after another like they do on the ZEN Stone? I know the Stone is a completely different mp3 system in the way it plays the files. But I love the way my Stone plays the playlists one after another, allowing me to skip between them easily. It also breaks up the number of the songs in the playlists, so its easier to skip through rather then having one big playlist on the ZEN.
?Does anyone know if this feature is already on the ZEN and how to enable it. OR is there some firmwear download I can get for it.
Btw I have a ZEN 8 Gb
Viper Vin

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Based on some discussions I found while looking for a solution (including at least one in which the questioner got bashed about why anybody would ever want to do such a thing and in which the proposed solutions were things like creating one song playlists or simply press stop after each song), some may not understand why this would ever be desired. Here's why I wanted to do it:
I was responsible for playing a series of songs at a dance. I needed to stop after each song to have a transition time to allow me to introduce the next song and to give new dancers time to get onto the floor and other dancers an opportunity to leave the floor. Furthermore, I was also dancing and didn't want to have to spend time searching for the next song (which is why I wanted to create a playlist in advance with just the songs I wanted to play in the order I wanted to play them) and I wanted each song to stop after playing since I was not at the computer to press stop.
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