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I have recently bought a Zen Nano, and I love it. I love it's size, its color, and it's layout. When I got it home for the first time, I installed MediaSource, and this Zen Nano Plus Media Explorer. I also use Musicmatch to purchase and exchange DRM music on it. I have a few albums on it. My problem is that it is not organized by Artist, then Album, then song... It seems as though its organized by just the track. To fix this I tried putting all my music into folders entitled their artist name, then album. Now it skips directly to the album folder. I would like to know how to organize music so I can get to it by Artist, then Album, then Song. If possible. If not then why would they waste space with a GB dri've in it.

The flash memory players work on folders and filenames not tag info. The only tag displayed is the title tag.
Any folders without music files in are ignored. A workaround I suggested for someone else was to create a dummy file - make a? one second recording of nothing, convert it to an mp3 file then put a copy of it in each Artist folder. Then you should be able to use the Skip Folder function to pass through the Artist folder to the enclosed Album folders.
Hope it works as I haven't tried it myself.
PB

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