Jeremiah: You are missing one detail in your MP3 mark-up discussion. That is, the = device doesn't know whether the file was sent as music or spoken word. = Both files are actually marked up; the difference is in the mark-up = itself. Music uses recurring marks to simulate movement by time; spoken = word mark-up marks phrases. >>> jzrogers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 05/10/04 06:35AM >>> Greetings to all ye Book Porters A few weeks back, there were a number of messages surrounding Book =3D Port's behavior when playing MP3 audio, where it leaves markers once it = =3D has played the file, etc. I didn't weigh in on the discussion at that =3D point, because I wanted to think over the idea I had and to decide =3D whether or not the practicality of it warranted suggesting it to APH for = =3D consideration. Please do point out, publicly or privately, the positives = =3D and negatives you find in the following thoughts. At present, the transfer tool allows the user the option of specifying =3D whether mp3 audio is sent to the machine as music, which is to say that = =3D it is unmarked, or to have the software deduce breaks in paragraphs, =3D chapters, and other navigational units. Many of you were asking for a =3D means of resetting all of the markers within a given folder such that =3D you could start at any given point in the list of files and have the =3D files play, starting from the beginning, in exactly the same fashion as = =3D would occur when using a commercial CD player. Seemingly with little =3D modification of the Book Port's firmware, and perhaps with only slight =3D modification to the transfer tool, APH could instruct the device not to = =3D keep track of where it left off playing a given file if that file were =3D sent as music, while still retaining the device's present behavior for =3D audio files which were sent allowing the transfer tool to mark them up. = =3D If, for some reason, one wanted to start at a given point other than the = =3D beginning of a sent-as-music file, they could still use the device's =3D marking features. Concerning a separate issue altogether, I also have a suggestion for how = =3D the Book Port behaves once locked and powered off. At present, if any =3D key other than the 1+3 combination is pressed, the machine emits that =3D all-too-familiar half-second or so buzz, waits the customary ten seconds = =3D or so of inactivity, then powers off. Over the course of half an hour in = =3D one's pocket, briefcase, or other location of transportation, this could = =3D happen dozens of times, and could cause lots of disruption to those =3D around the device with that annoying beep. My suggestion, then, is to =3D have the lock and unlock command be a combination of keys, and to have =3D the machine's behavior when the unit is locked and not reading to be =3D completely unresponsive to keys or key combinations other than the =3D command chosen as the unlock command. Further, I suggest that the unlock = =3D command be a combination of keys other than on the same row or column. I = =3D suggest 1+F, given that they'd take two hands to invoke and that it =3D shouldn't interfere with any of the present command structure. I look forward to reading any insuing discussion in response to these =3D thoughts. Jeremiah Z. Rogers, jzrogers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx=20