sholling
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Hemet, CA
1 edit | [Mp3] MP3 Player For MP3 Audio Books
I've given up on my Sansa e250. I'm tired of fighting the cantankerous POS. If the book comes in DiskXChapterX format it will play 5-10 chapters (1-2 disks) in order and then the rest at random. My reasearch tells me that this is a common Sansa issue. It won't even see half of the chapters. The only way that it works reliably is if I laboriously relabel each chapter sequentially. FWIW the tags match the file names. I've had enough.
What other reasonably priced player is good at books? It must pick up where you leave off when you have to leave mid chapter.
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KCrimson
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| Have you considered putting Rockbox on it? If I still had only the original firmware on my e270 it would probably have been thrown away, sold or replaced by now. With Rockbox I have a player that plays almost every audio format I can attempt to put on it, with what feels like limitless configurability. If your player is a v2 version of the e250 I believe there's now a build available for it as well.
www.rockbox.org |
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sholling
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Hemet, CA
| said by KCrimson  :Have you considered putting Rockbox on it? If I still had only the original firmware on my e270 it would probably have been thrown away, sold or replaced by now. With Rockbox I have a player that plays almost every audio format I can attempt to put on it, with what feels like limitless configurability. If your player is a v2 version of the e250 I believe there's now a build available for it as well. www.rockbox.org Thanks! I'll check it out. I'm just getting too far sighted to read text long enough to enjoy a book. So I buy audio books and rip.
I actually found the secret. The Sansa got confused if I used disc and track (0101 for disc 1 track 1). As soon as it finished disc 1 it would start playing random tracks. I tried a half dozen naming schemes and none worked.
I'm now using MP3 Tag Pro to tag them as 001 to whatever, then have it rename the files. It takes me about 10 minutes to fix an audio book.
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DownTheShore
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I use the Sansa Fuze and I'm happy with it. I just make sure that the audiobook tracks are properly numbered and labeled and that the genre is shown as "audiobooK".
I prefer to use File Renamer Turbo. It's very customizable and does quick batch processing of the audiobook.
»www.kristanixsoftware.com/filerenamer/
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