The Ghost of Johnny Cash Haunts my Zune

As I mentioned a few days ago, I got a Zune for the holidays from the consulting firm I'm subcontracting through. I've had it for a few weeks now and it's a decent enough device. But, there's this strange behavior that leads me to the conclusion that the ghost of Johnny Cash haunts my Zune.

I added about 20GB of my favorite music to the Zune, including 2 Johnny Cash albums. Now, I've got your basic Super Deluxe Pattern Recognizer (SDPR) installed in my skull, otherwise known as a standard human brain. As such, when a strange pattern of Boy Named Sue and Ring of Fire started popping up in the midst of nearly every listening session, I couldn't help but notice.

Fully aware of the fact that my (and your) SDPR tends to fabricate patterns in the absence of real ones, I chalked it up to strange, but random behavior. Even when I tracked such streaks as 5 out of 8 songs coming from the Man in Black.

Then, I got sick of it and decided to pull the albums off. I figured if I ever got the craving to hear "I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die", I could just put them back on. That's when things got strange.

I've since attempted to remove the albums themselves, the individual tracks, all songs by artist, etc. And yet, the stream of Johnny Cash inclusions in shuffle mode continues.

So, I give up. This thing must be haunted and I'm just going to have to live with the ghost.