Thanks for the help. I am going to try one other thing, then I may have to go your route.
As far as music listening goes, I am so old-fashioned as to be archaic. I grew up listening to records, where you get the record off the shelf, put it on the turntable, and play it. You can select a single song if you want to go to the trouble, or not.
When CDs came along, it was pretty much the same. It was nice to be able to program the player to skip songs, or change the order, but I seldom did it.
I still listen that way. I have a huge collection of digital music, organized on a dedicated hard drive as genre/artist/album, and I still listen to albums (or individual songs) in their entirety most of the time.
I don't even know what a "playlist" is, although I have a vague understanding that it is the virtual equivalent of a "mix-CD" without limitations. I have never used one, and don't know how. I have burned a lot of mix CDs, for myself and others, and still do.
Like most other things, I favor simplicity in the extreme. My perfect music player is to use Windows Explorer to select some set of music files, unique each time, click "Play" and simply have the music start playing. Anything else is just cumbersome obstructions to me enjoying my music.
So, I understand that I am a hopeless curmudgeon who is out of touch with the modern world.
