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Hi, i've had my micro now for about 4 months and love it! but there is thing about it that i dont understand. when i look in my library it tells me that there are 90 tracks on the player but when i select random play all it says there are 80 tracks. so why the difference? from what i can tell all the tracks play and i've tried cleaning it up and reformating but there are always tracks that seam to disappear. any help would be much appreciated!
Thanks
Dazz

I had the same problem with a few CDs after I ripped them. Looking into it, I noticed that the tracks were out of sequence in the affected folder on my PC. Before synching, I simply right-clicked and selected arrange by track number in the folders that were mis-sorted. After that, everything flowed as it should.
I believe the folders were out of sequence because I when used MP3Tag to generate appropriate tags, I didn't check the track order before saving them. The CDs I ripped afterward and arranged into the correct sequence of files before saving the tags were all in the right order.
That's my "fix"
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