Zen Vision M: TERRIBLE music play and organization, starting to regret my purch

I used to have a Cowon iAudio, which you could plug into your computer and arrange music however you wanted to using windows explorer. SO EASY. you could make folders of anything you wanted, move songs around just by dragging and dropping, it was the best. so why did i buy a creative zen?
I have an album that has all these featured artists, so like, Zero7 featuring blah blah, Zer7 feature someone else, and so I now have 0 different artists for this one album. And of course, the player won't just play through the songs if you choose the artists, at the end of the song you have to click up a folder, pick the new artists on the album, and go to the next etc...How can I put all the songs into ONE ARTIST FOLDER? I've renamed the mp3 tag in media source, I've done it in WMP, and then synced, but then I have two versions of every song. And I still have 0 different folders, I just want all of them under the same artist? Why can't you drag and drop songs in Creative Media source? I mean, you can try it, but it doesn't do anything. please help?

Go to Music Library> Artists, scroll to HIGHLIGHT the artist you want (don't select) and press the 'play' button. If you are in Play mode> Shuffle then you will get a random selection of that artist.
The same goes for playing all tracks in a genre.

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