Randomise Playback Order; Auto Playlist WM10

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In WMP 10 (not sure about 9) if you right click on the Auto playlists heading and click new (as below)

you'll get a box up (below :))

Now for my music I've used DBPowerAmp to get a SPV version of it*

Therefore I've chosen the BitRate Is 64 to reflect my music.

I've also chosen the file type as WMA (as that's the 64 bit stuff I converted...)

The last two are the most important though. When you add another rule to the top batch if you click "more you'll get a box with many more fields. In this case we want "Randomise Playback Order

Next we want to make a limit of how much to get in the list, and therefore on the phone.

It's all well and good hitting 512 for my 512 MiniSD. But this left some tracks not fitting. This irritated me, but was pretty irrelevant. Although on the Sync screen you'll see the space available (in total) on whatever card you use so round the number down to that and you're laughing.

Now all you need to do is hit ok.

Goto the sync screen and choose this auto paylist.

Make sure you sync into a foldr on the card, or it won't caopy them all, I think it's something to do with the limit of files in the root of it, which seems VERY old school!

*(smaller bitrate = more music)

Credit phillprice