Zen vision menu quest

alright you know on the ipod you click on artist it shows you a list of the songs by the artist.......on the zen vision:m it gives u a list of the albums. Is there a way to click on the artist and give you a list of the songs instead of albums? other than making all your songs not in seperate albums i dunno if that even works

Try "menu"..."Music Library"....."Artists".."scroll to the artist you want"...."view tracks" . Is this what you wanted to do? All the tracks show up for me when I do this.

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