42Using the Artist Link Feature
Searching for Artists Belonging to Similar Genres (Artist Link)
With the currently playing track as a starting point, you can find other artists and tracks in similar musical genres. In the artist list, preview clips of tracks by the artists are played (Preview Play) as you move the cursor up and down the list, enabling you to hear samples of their music as you search.
Play a track by the artist you want to use as the starting point for the search (key artist).
Press LINK.
The search begins. When the searching finishes, a list of artists appears.
Press / to select an artist, and then press .
A list of the tracks by the selected artist appears.
If you leave the name of any artist selected without pressing , preview selections of tracks by the artist are played.
If you select “All Related Songs,” preview selections of all tracks of all artists on the artist list are played. Press to display the Now Playing screen of the track.
Selecting “Increase search range” repeats the search using less strict relationships to the genre, so more artists can be found.
Press /// to select a track, and then press .
Playback of the selected track starts and continues through the succeeding tracks.
Hints
•If you select any artist in the artist list and press and hold , all tracks of the selected artist are played.
•The previous screen reappears when you press BACK.
•If you press LINK while an artist name or track title is selected in step or step or while the Now Playing screen is displayed in step , an artist list appears. The player begins playing the currently playing track from the beginning and pauses when the track finishes.
•While a key artist is selected, // do not operate, so you cannot jump to the previous or next tracks or scan backwards or forwards.
•If “Cannot find linked artists. Increase search range?” appears, select “Yes” and follow the steps in “To increase search range (Wide Range).”
Even when you increase the search range, “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.
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