Edited my earlier post, I was mistaken, the RMT-D140A does not work with this player, but the RMT-D150A does. I was sure the other did also, but I just tried it and it doesn't so the 150 it is.THANK YOU.
Mine are stacked side by side, shuffle for hrs on end without issue, don't really mind the ten second delay between songs. Shuffle with the remote I pictured is easy, point and shoot.Labeling discs is covered on pg. 55 of the user guide: https://docs.sony.com/release/DVPCX777ES.pdf
Using the keyboard for same starts on pg. 56. It's a pain in the ass either way, IMO - and a shame that Escient server that used to support internet retrieval for title/cover art etc. via their Fireball product and the serial port on these players is no longer in service.
Shuffle play functions start on pg. 44. I have never used that, so can't comment on whether the manual is correct or not. Would be surprised if it was not however, Sony ES was pretty good about that. It's a worthless feature for DVD obviously, and the disc swap takes so long that shuffling other than on the same disc would also be pretty funky with long gaps in between music.
BTW, if you haven't already, should read this which more or less captures a very real issue with the DVP-CX777ES: https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-...f=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B00020634U
Mine just finished chewing up half a dozen discs before I caught it; only way to be 100% sure that can't happen is to load every other slot so that a wobbling/off-center mounted spinning disc can't touch the playing surface of the next disc in the carrousel. I retired mine and put a new Sony ES single-disc machine in its place.
John
Paid $63 bucks, not real worried about wear and tear, only purchased it for the random play feature. Installed new belts when I got it, most likely the reason most had issues, the belts were never changed and started slipping.Yeah... I had 400 discs (or close to that) loaded most of the time as well, not any more. I am happy to post pics if you want to see what happens when it doesn't get a disc fully loaded to the play position and there's a neighboring disc. There are plenty of hits about that issue on the internet, apparently a known issue as far back as 10 years ago. Mine just decided to start doing it fairly recently after a few years with no issue.
CD's are definitely quicker to swap (in that they spin up and start playing a lot faster), but that's a lot of additional wear and tear just for random music... but to each his own.
I liked this player too (and the DVP-CX985V which I also own) but between the piss-poor content management features (more than half of what I put in it the titles aren't read automatically, the ability to load disc info from internet connectivity is handicapped these days, and titles you take the time to program by remote or keyboard get dumped later by the machine more often than not) and the disc carving, I am pretty much done. Bought a Sony ES UBP-X1000ES and am loving that.
John