03-18-2008, 03:14 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
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Sean,
Hello and welcome to Zune Thoughts!  Great first post!
The vast majority of MP3 players on the market have music sorting based around metadata - you're thinking of files and folders, but MP3 players, the Zune included, filter music based on metadata.
In your example, each of those genres you mentioned would be separated out if the metadata on your music was correct (and that's easy to do in batch mode with a tool such as Media Monkey). So, yes, you'd turn on your Zune, you'd go to the genre filter and flip to Opera, then inside the Opera genre you'd see all your Opera albums listed in alphabetical order. Genres are completely under your control - I've created genres such as '70s Pop, '80s Pop, etc.
Creating a list of songs from various albums is called creating a playlist, and that's something that you the Zune desktop software. You create a playlist, say "Driving Music", then drag and drop the songs from your collection onto the playlist. Then, when you're done, you drag and drop the playlist onto your Zune - and all that music comes along for the ride. On the Zune itself, you can select that playlist
You're questions have given me ideas for some new Zune 101 videos - watch the Zune Thoughts front page for them, probably mid-April.
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