Zen v+ - how to play all tracks in artist/album/track-number or

i got my zen v+ yesterday and am very excited, but...
i've read the help, tried every play mode and every option on the player, searched this forum and an another forum w/o success
this seems like a very basic ability - i must be missing something obvious
i installed/used the media explorer included with the player and used the included sync tool
my wmv's are tagged, they appear to be organized properly when browsing by artist and album
somebody please help me
tia,
brett
ps.
also want the ability to skip an artist if i'm not in the mood for their musicMessage Edited by brettvplus on 08-24-20072:44 PM

The Muvos are USB Mass Storage devices and do not have the ability to display track information based upon ID3 tags.
The Zens all read and display track info based upon ID3 tag information that is either gathered from an online source or entered by the end-user.
If you want the track information displayed instead of the ID3 tag information, you could edit the ID3 tags and rename the title to whatever you have as the file name. Not sure why your file names would differ so much from the ID3 tag info though, almost all of my content has the same name for the filename as it does on the ID3 tag title.

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