Need help with playing tracks

Question

Haven't used my player in awhile and never did really learn how to use it well. I have some meditations I've loaded, to listen to e.g. before I go to sleep. I was getting other music playing when the meditation was finished. Think I finally figured out how to get the right track to repeat....BUT I'd really like to turn it off after the one track plays-automatically. Can I do this? Manual not much help!   There might be times I'd want it to repeat, times want it to turn off, and times when I might want to switch to another track/mediation and go on.  Help???  Thanks!

Answer 1

Black-Rectangle wrote:
When you go into Settings you change the defaults. The unit should remember them after being turned off. Ok.....the Power one seems to stay but Sleep doesn't. Am I doing something wrong or is that one an exception? With Repeat off it should play through the Go List once and stop. If you just want to play one track, just put one track in the Go List. Otherwise it will keep playing through the whole list (your six tracks). Ok.....Got this figured out and moved 5 out of the GoList. And checked and they're still there, in another folder......wasn't sure about that! I'd wondered if I could do this all on the unit and not have to go into the pc to do it. Thanks for the clear info! The Go List is supposed to be the track(s) you want to hear now and only those tracks. It's designed for you to add and remove tracks on the unit itself. To take a track OFF the Go List, start playing it and hold the center button to remove it.  You can make more elaborate, more permanent playlists using the computer, but that's actually pretty well explained in the manual. The Go List is made for quick changes. If you set the Power Saver to 10 minutes it will shut off 10 minutes after the last track is played.  (It doesn't say automatic, I was just trying to explain what it does.) Got it!  The same track can be in the Go List and elsewhere because unless you click all the way down and go to Folders, you are not seeing folders as you would on a computer. You're seeing lists made from the database, which is made from the ID3 tags, electronic labels that are part of each file. Ditto that there is not a separate folder of Albums, a separate folder of Artists, etc.--all that info is gathered from the files and placed under categories like Album, Artist, etc. Each one is like an index, not a folder full of files. The Go List (like other playlists) is a list of locations where the files are. The Sansa sees the list, understands it's a list, and follows the list to play the files you want. Thanks for your patience and clear explanations!! Now I can add more items and move them around as I need to. Considering the sorely incompetent manual, how on earth do total newbies figure all this out? Why isn't the manual more comprehensive (not that you should know why but just wondering!!) I want to also ask about finding an ac adapter to charge the unit off the pc but figure I should start a new thread!! Don't want to lose you!  Somewhere on here someone sugg using a cell phone charger. Tried mine, the plug looks the same size but will only go in part way and then the battery icon has a slash through it. Others said it's faster with an adapter. Also want to ask about updating the software......others on here recc some specific softward to download (have to look it up again) rather than the Sansa software (don't think it's available now); would doing that/updating the software help? and would there be more capabilities with it? Just let me know if I should start new threads for these?  Thanks again! I am really grateful for your help!