Does anybody agree with me or am I alone on this point??

I'm with you, although I don't agree with your reason. Frankly, I think that you should invest some time in creating some effective playlists and stop using the player in such a cripppled manner. Remember that the playlists are heirarchal - you can still have one big playlist ordered as before _and_ have flexibility to choose one 'section' of it.

I really can't understand why you want to do what you are doing - the search feature isn't as easy to use as the playlist selection feature anyway, Search takes too many button presses for my liking, and I have no avertion to changing playlists at whim.

That all being said - I can see some uses for this, and as a feature I don't think that it would do anything but add to the existing functionality. I'd imagine that it might be useful to audio-book listeners as well as other uses listed above.

_EDIT_ Man, the way I phrased that makes me appear like a total git. Didn't mean to offend.