When I turn on the player and the main screen comes up, I push the knob in and it shows where I left off – I can push the knob in again to resume play.

If I want to play a different song, I bump the knob left to back out of that folder (may take one or two left clicks, depending on how many subs in the folder) and then scroll up and down the folder list until I locate the new choice. Then I Push In to open that folder for the list of tunes, scroll up or down to desired song, then push in to play.

I’ve also found a small cell phone case works great for the MP3 – it has a belt clip and magnetic closure and I can wrap the headphones around the top of the closure and tuck the earpieces into the sides.

I don’t know this product, but I do own an IRiver mp3 player and recognise the problem of having the same starting track no matter what you do. At the time, it was caused by the fact that I included a Playlist in one of the directories, and since the playlist support wasn’t that good, it used that playlist not just for that directory, but for the entire device. Maybe that’s what is happening to you?
I’ll grab this audio review, but I’d love to see it on the site as well for those who don’t have the time for the audio thing, no matter how much fun it is..

I have one teensy weensy caveat. I have had it a month now, have it loaded with around 250 songs yet STILL can’t navigate to the song I want and get it to play. The simplest basic operation. It just keeps reverting to the same starting track. So I have to add a sour note and say that I find it less than intuitive to use for playing music – it’s main purpose. The FM radio is easy to use however.

The sound quality is amazing and the battery life almost unbelievable. I especially like the metalic red finish and the cool selection of accesories that come as standard. I replaced the headphones with a higher quality pair with ear clips as the supplied basic style always fall out of my ears or feel as if they are going to.