43Using the Artist Link Feature

Notes

•The Artist Link search feature and the criteria used to find other artists may change as a result of updates to the player’s firmware.

•Because the Artist Link feature bases its searches on track information, tracks with no track information attached are not found by the Artist Link feature. If none of the tracks stored on the player have track information, the Artist Link feature cannot work.

The track information can be retrieved automatically from the Internet.

•While “Artist Link” is displayed, the controls of the player cannot be operated.

•“Cannot find linked artists” is displayed if there are no tracks by other artists in genres similar to the key artist, or the tracks of artists in genres similar to the key artist have not been transferred to the player, or none the tracks stored on the player have track information.

•The Artist Link feature consumes more battery power than most other player operations, such as playing tracks.

To cancel Artist Link

1Press BACK while viewing the artist list.

To increase the search range (Wide Range)

1Select “Increase search range” at step of “Searching for Artists

Belonging to a Particular Genre” (page 42), and then press .

The search begins.

When the search is finished, a list of related artists appears.

If you select “All Related Songs,” preview selections of all tracks of all artists on the artist list are played.

If you select “Decrease search range,” the artist list reappears.

If the player cannot find any artists or tracks related to the original track, “Cannot find linked artists” appears. Select “Back,” and then press to return to the previous screen.

2Press /to select an artist, and then press .

A list of the tracks by the selected artist appears.

3Press /to select a track, and then press .

Playback of the selected track starts and continues through the succeeding tracks on the list.

Hint

•If “Cannot find linked artists. Increase search range?” appears in step of “Searching for Artists Belonging to a Particular Genre,” you can increase the search range by selecting “Yes” and pressing .

•If you press LINK while a key artist is selected in step , the player begins a Wide Range search.

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