OK - I finally got my Clip Sport Plus, and yes, it can shuffle tracks within a single playlist.
In my case all my songs are in a folder on my Win7 laptop. I used TagScanner to sort my collection by genre. I then selected all songs of a specific genre (say, Bluegrass), and had TagScanner create a playlist from that subset, which I called “Bluegrass”. TagScanner saves this as “Bluegrass.m3u”. I repeated this for all genres, and ended up with about 20 playlists.
After copying the folder’s contents (mp3 and m3u files) to the “Music” folder on the CSplus, it’s now as simple as bringing up the “Playlist” option and selecting whichever playlist you want, which are named the same as my genres - Bluegrass, Rock, Folk or whatever.
So it’s a relatively simple way of getting my CSplus to do what I want, and which my Zen Vision M (and many other mp3 players) does natively.
Thanks to everyone who helped, and hope this in turn might help other users to “play by genre” on their CSplus.
