[reggiegasket]

Hello all. I've just bought an X3 and want to play random songs across all the albums but the X3 will only shuffle within an album.
 
I've tried everything I can think of but I'm stuck.
 
It has the latest firmware. Anyone?
 
I've googled it and it seems it may be possible but the instructions didn't make any sense to me.

 

[jfaaz]

It depends on what firmware you are using.  If its 3.0 or 3.2 then in the upper left corner there is a double 16th note, click on that then click on the upper left icon that is a circle with a triangle.  The you will see tracks, just click on one and music will play randomly if the X3 is set to shuffle.
 

 

[reggiegasket]

thanks. I'm using 3.2.
 
That works but only for the songs stored on the unit's memory, which is tiny. The majority of the albums stored are on a 64GB microSD card ('TF card'), which is a different folder to the unit's memory, and only accessible if you 'Browse Files'.
 
If you play one of the tracks on the TF card/microSD card, on shuffle, you are locked into that album.
 
Is there a way to 'fool' the unit into thinking that all the albums on the microSD card are actually on the unit? 

 

[jfaaz]

  thanks. I'm using 3.2.
 
That works but only for the songs stored on the unit's memory, which is tiny. The majority of the albums stored are on a 64GB microSD card ('TF card'), which is a different folder to the unit's memory, and only accessible if you 'Browse Files'.
 
If you play one of the tracks on the TF card/microSD card, on shuffle, you are locked into that album.
 
Is there a way to 'fool' the unit into thinking that all the albums on the microSD card are actually on the unit? 

I never have experienced the problem you mentioned.  It works fine for me the way I described.

 

[reggiegasket]

if I click the 16th note icon, then click the triangle-inside-a-circle play icon, it takes me to the songs on the units internal memory, of which there are just 26. If I play one of those songs it will shuffle amongst those 26 happily.
 
But most of my songs are on the TF card and to access those you need to 'browse files' as I described above.
 
What does yours do jfaaz? When you do the 16th-note-then-play-icon thing does it take you to the songs on your TF card , or the internal memory like mine does?
 
Maybe I have to change the folder setup somehow....

 

[tjw321]

  if I click the 16th note icon, then click the triangle-inside-a-circle play icon, it takes me to the songs on the units internal memory, of which there are just 26. If I play one of those songs it will shuffle amongst those 26 happily.
 
But most of my songs are on the TF card and to access those you need to 'browse files' as I described above.
 
What does yours do jfaaz? When you do the 16th-note-then-play-icon thing does it take you to the songs on your TF card , or the internal memory like mine does?
 
Maybe I have to change the folder setup somehow....

Have you updated your media library since you put stuff on the TF card? Go to the cog like icon on the home screen and select Update Media Library. Then the tracks on your TF card should appear.

 

[reggiegasket]

Great. That did it. Thanks