Posted by Tom Cole on 09/19/06 21:17

On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:53:22 GMT, Charles Russell
<SPAMworFREEwor@bellsouth.net> wrote:

>Tom Cole wrote:
>> On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:50:08 GMT, Charles Russell
>> <SPAMworFREEwor@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>
>>> dadiOH wrote:
>>>> peter wrote:
>>>>> I need to transfer spoken word files I have to mp3. When the files
>>>>> are played on my mp3 player there are brief but annoying gaps in
>>>>> playback ie the whole thing does not play seamlessly as the cd
>>>>> does.I have tried *mp3 merge* in the hope that it would restore the
>>>>> *seamless* playback,but no luck.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am using CDex.
>>>>>
>>>>> Whats causing this
>>>> The necessity of MP3s to end on a frame.
>>>>
>>>>> and is there a way around it?
>>>> Rip the CD as one big file.
>>>>
>>> Are there any portable players that will then let you bookmark the point
>>> where you stop listening, play something else, and then return? Ipod
>>> does this but only for files in their own audiobook format, not for
>>> something ripped or recorded from tape.
>>
>> Any player that can run the free Rockbox software. See
>> http://rockbox.haxx.se for details.
>
>The rockbox web site mentions "in-track resume", but not bookmarking.
>Is that "in-track resume" remembered while you play something else or
>switch off the player? (The kind of "in-track resume" you would want
>for an audiobook.) If you could set multiple bookmarks it would be even
>better.

No, bookmarking is a separate feature. The bookmarking facility can be
set up in a number of different ways.. You can have a large number of
separate bookmarks.

See http://www.rockbox.org/manual.shtml and download the pdf manual for
the hardware of your choice. Search for "bookmark" to get an idea of how
it works.

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