Originally Posted by UtahLandy

Piecing together everyone's suggestions, I have found the error of my ways. Getting to the most pressing issue first and heeding Royalist suggestion of alternately trying a song from The Doors, I discovered yet another previously unknown secret door that opened on the center console from which a razor sharp knife emerged and tried to slash my wrist but fortunately I hadn't gone into full depression mode yet and was able to quickly elude it.

I next tried the above suggestions with my Moody Blues playlist and things went much better. The problem I had was since all my music is on my Iphone you have to use Siri. I was using the Defender assistant. I assume you would use this assistant if you had a bunch of songs on a usb stick. Following on Defender90NY suggestion that a regular press gets the Defender assistant and a longer press gets you Siri worked for me too and has solved my original question. So any music that is on your Iphone you should use Siri and anything that isn't, you can use the Defender assistant. I don't understand why this is since I can use the Defender assistant to call my contacts on my phone, but ok, at least I have the answer.

Thanks All for your assistance!