- Sep 15, 2000
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RAM based MP3/WMA players are all over the market these days, and the prices are finally quite reasonable. Alas, I haven't much interest in playing Music and the features of these toys seem less useful for my Audio Books. Those Owner's Manuals I've found online suggest few players (or none?!) support my needs.
Basically, I need to be able to handle the spoken text just as one would handle a book: one should be able to set it aside for a few minutes, then pick it and resume either at the place one left it, or if that's in mid-thought one needs to be able to back-up -slightly- to recover the context.
If anyone knows of a memory based player that supports the following, I'd love to hear of that model. Heck, I might even go for a CD player if it offered more than my old iRiver.
Features I'd like/need:
- Recall/Memory -- the ability to return to the exact point where one turned the machine off. Tracks for books can be long, compared to music, and 45 minutes long if the tracks were transferred from Tape. [My iRiver CD player has this feature, but it can get confused, depending on just how it was turned off.]
- FF/Rewind -with-in- a track -- All the units I've looker at appear to skip forward or back only to Track boundaries; this is frustrating when you need to slip back 30 seconds in a 45 minute track. This is particularly frustrating when the player has accidentally been left on and one needs to search through multiple long Tracks to find where one left off.
Basically, I want a micro Tape-deck in a world that seems to make micro jukeboxes. Any recommendations would be provided. Hope I haven't raised this in the wrong Forum!!
John
Basically, I need to be able to handle the spoken text just as one would handle a book: one should be able to set it aside for a few minutes, then pick it and resume either at the place one left it, or if that's in mid-thought one needs to be able to back-up -slightly- to recover the context.
If anyone knows of a memory based player that supports the following, I'd love to hear of that model. Heck, I might even go for a CD player if it offered more than my old iRiver.
Features I'd like/need:
- Recall/Memory -- the ability to return to the exact point where one turned the machine off. Tracks for books can be long, compared to music, and 45 minutes long if the tracks were transferred from Tape. [My iRiver CD player has this feature, but it can get confused, depending on just how it was turned off.]
- FF/Rewind -with-in- a track -- All the units I've looker at appear to skip forward or back only to Track boundaries; this is frustrating when you need to slip back 30 seconds in a 45 minute track. This is particularly frustrating when the player has accidentally been left on and one needs to search through multiple long Tracks to find where one left off.
Basically, I want a micro Tape-deck in a world that seems to make micro jukeboxes. Any recommendations would be provided. Hope I haven't raised this in the wrong Forum!!
John
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