I have just purchased the Clip Sport without realising these two important features were absent. They were present in my old Clip Zip so I assumed they would be in the Sport as well. This is an absolute deal-breaker for me. My most common use of the player is to punch in 5 or 6 albums into the playlist as I’m walking to my rig for the journey ahead. I cannot believe that I am expected to go through a list of 80 to 100 songs and select them one by one. I’ll be hunting down a second hand Zip or some alternate player if this can’t be sorted.