While I myself prefer spllitting audio books to cd-legnth parts, you could split an mp3 file into, say, tracks of 5 minutes each.
hth Doris At 07:46 AM 9/11/2013 +0100, you wrote:
I have this exact problem with Audible on my android phone. I bookmarkk every now and again, but I don't always remember, and this is coarse grained. What's needed is to pause at the end of a page, and continue with a 'next page' button. If you fall asleep then all you lose is one page. Can the mp3 file be split into page length tracks, and then played a track at a time om your mp3 player? This kind of thing can be easily done on gstreamer + Linux. Would that work for you? I might give this a go anyway Aedan O'Meara writes: > Hi all,> I would like opinions on how to cope with falling asleep while listening to> an mp3 audiobook and losing ones place. > In a large mp3 file it takes for ever to rewind to were one last remembers > what happened. > My thoughts would be, what if we had a "dead mans switch", i.e. a spring> switch that one had to press to keep the book going but when you fall asleep> your had relaxes and the device stops. > Problem I see with this is that removing the power from an mp3 player does > not necessarily make a bookmark, so we are back to square one! > This would have worked with the old cassette players though. > The sleep mode setting might help if set to 3 minutes but is not accurate > although the "Tinytunes" sleep mode is reset if you press any key when it > gives you the "Hello"before shutting down. Any thoughts?? > Aedan > > > ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] > ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: > ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ** and in the Subject line type > ** unsubscribe > ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the > ** immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] > ** or send a message, to > ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq -- Les Smithson ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq
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