(scroll through genre, scroll through artist, scroll through album, scroll through songs) to get to most songs on the car player

I'm wondering how the PJB is different in selecting playlists? What is it that makes the PJB faster at this selection? How is it organized?

Now, as far as improving the speed of selecting songs on the empeg, try this:

- Don't have a Genres tree at all. Put your artists at the root. That will save a step. Or, if you occasionally like to select an entire genre, you can do both (have a genres tree parallel to the artists). Remember that if you copy a playlist within emplode, you're only copying its link, you're not wasting disk space.

- You can spin the knob to scroll through menus, you don't have to press buttons. That might make it faster for you.

- I know you said you don't use the remote, but you can jump to a letter in the playlists menu by pressing the corresponding key on the remote.

i also don't understand insert/append and so i haven't used them at all. they also aren't documented in the booklet

They are in the FAQ at Riocar.org, though. Perhaps you ought to give that a once-over?

I agree that bookmarks are not documented, I didn't realize they needed documentation. They're bookmarks. You set it, you retrieve it. Just like... uh... like...

Okay, I'll put it in the faq.

and actually i question my organization when i struggle to find/play music but everyone else here never mentions that problem.

I think that's probably because everyone just shuffles the whole player (down-down-down) and doesn't spend a lot of time on selecting specific songs.

Remember that the playlist heirarchy is totally free-form. If you want something with less branches to the tree, then simply make the playlists however you want them. What are they like on the PJB?