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Old 08-08-2010, 12:54 PM   #1
LivresInOz
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Device: Kobo: Forma + Libra|Galaxy: TAB A7 + Note 8 tablet|Boox: Note Air 2
Thumbs down Who else thinks the Boox mp3 player is terrible?

In my experience it:

* Constantly crashes, for example if you go on the internet, or leave it paused, or many other things. You come back to the player and it just won't play.

* You can't easily skip to part of an audio track. To do so, you have to do some wierd operation like skip forward > hit play > then skip forward again!

These days a basic mp3 player is essential as part of an ebook reader, because so many books are in audio format.
I would like to be able to use it to go through my university lecture slides on pdf while I listen to the lecture.
But this is close to impossible to do on the Boox unless you sit there for the whole hour without touching the player.

The Boox could get a much bigger market if students could do this easily, because many lectures are now made available as mp3s and powerpoints or pdfs to download.

If they're going to advertise it as playing mp3s, the player should work in at least the most basic way.

(Being able to speed up or slow down the playback would also be a good future addition)

Please vote here if you think Onyx needs to improve this player to at least a decent level as a matter of priority!

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