Surely when most people search for a tune, they don't just want to listen to that tune and then have to re-search for some more tunes in 5min.

Oh! Wait! I think I know what's going on here.

Okay, perhaps it's just a question of how you're using the player. You usually have the player playing "nothing" and then occasionally search for a tune or something. Or pick a short playlist.

Most everyone else does it the opposite. Have the player playing its entire contents (press Down Down Down on the front panel) and it will always be playing something, it never stops.

Then, when you want to hear something SPECIFIC, then you do a search with INSERT activated, and it comes up next. That's what most people do. At least I think so.