Audio quality - MP3 player?

[Im_me]

Originally Posted by booksonthemove

Regarding movements being split across multiple tracks, the stop/start didn't bother me when I was listening to multiple mp3s - it was what I'd expect just listening to the cd. If you wish, you could rip/encode an entire cd as one track which would eliminate any possibility of what you describe from happening, but this is a function of how you rip the original in the first place rather than the reader.

Sometimes on CDs you get movements that are split up into multiple tracks - think of it as being the difference between bookmarks and chapters. Most CDs use tracks as 'chapters' - they put them where there's a natural break in the music. But where tracks are used as 'bookmarks' there's not normally a break. If an MP3 player introduces one then it really gets quite intrusive.

I agree that there are ways around this, but personally I just want to put a CD in the computer and let it cogitate; I have several hundred that I haven't yet mp3ified and I want to keep the process as simple as possible. No renaming of tracks so that they play in the right order, or complicated concatenations of files.

I hope this doesn't seem too much like an argument - I'm writing more because I figure that sometimes people from Sony or other reader manufacturers read these lists. i sorta buy what you're saying about convergence - I don't believe in having one device to rule them all and I prefer to have a few dedicated single-purpose gadgets that fit their purpose really well. But I don't see why it would be pushing things too far to combine an ebook reader and an MP3 player successfully. Is there any reason an ereader playing MP3s should run out of batteries any faster than an MP3 player that can't be used to read books?

Anyway, if anybody's listening, please make me one!

[Im_me]

As a p.s. this thread seems to have gathered a fair amount of attention. I don't think I'm the only person interested!

[capnttom]

Originally Posted by Loose_Appeal

capnttom are you using a LOD cable or using a cable via ipod headphone jack?

Not sure what you mean by LOD cable, but my cable connects to the sync connector. I do not use the headphone jack. This arrangement bypasses the output amp on the iPod.