[anw1652]

BB 9700, latest OS, and
BB 9000 4.6 OS (or so; I've seen this on both BBs but am currently using the 9700 and am therefore less concerned with this one)

Summary
When I use media player and then pause the playback, I get the "Now Playing..." menu entry on my main BB menu for a while, then it just disappears. Also, the media player no longer appears in the list when I choose "Switch Applications". I don't know if this is indicative of the program crashing or what, but it really aggravates the following larger problem:

Details
Unlike (probably) most people, I primarily use the media features on the BB to listen to audio books (as opposed to music, for example). Therefore, any disconnect between the point at which I pause or stop the player and restart it is really annoying, since it leaves either gaps in the story or I have to listen to long parts of it all over again. The most common scenario is that I drive to work listening to a book, pause the player and lock the screen, go in to work, then leave some hours later, either for lunch or at the end of the work day. Upon leaving, when I go to restart the player, it's gone away. So, I have to restart the chapter I'm on and then, by trial and error stopping and listening, use the annoyingly non-granular progress button doohickey (another issue, but not so bad) to get back to where I was in the story. With some books, these chapters (or at least the way they divide up the book into mp3's) can be over an hour long.

So, even the pause/restart issue is a work-around to the ideal solution, which (finally) leads me to the questions I'd like to ask of this forum:

Ideally, I'd like to have a media player that had these features:

• When the player is paused or stopped, it saves which mp3 file and the exact place within that file that it is playing (well, to the second or so) in non-volatile storage. When it restarts, it restarts at that exact place again, but allows you to use the progress bar to move back and forth from there.
  
• Better yet, allow the user to put in an overlap time, so that if he put in, for example, 15 sec overlap, the player would start up 15 seconds before the point at which it paused. This would allow some context and be a reminder of exactly where you were in the story.
  
  Does anyone know of a player that has the one or both of these features?

• Barring this, is there anyway to try and figure out why the BB player would be exiting on its on some time after being paused or stopped?

TIA,
anw

[pkcable]

Maybe you want Audible?

Audible


Here's the main site.........

Download Audio Books, iPod And Digital Audio Books | Downloadable Online Audio Books | Audible Audiobooks | Audible.com

[njaremka]

navigate to your music list, click the menu button, select options, and right at the top is an option for "Close Media Player When Inactive". set that option to "Off" and that should fix your issues.

[anw1652]

pkcable:

Will check out audible to see if they have more of the features I want; in the meantime, however:

njaremka:

Navigated to the point to which you referred, and set it to "Off". Haven't tested it yet, but that does seem to be the best work-around for what I'm looking for.

Although I must not have looked at the options closely, I did read the documentation. I promise, I swear I did...

[anw1652]

njaremka-

This appears at this point to be my best option. It works! But, I haven't had the time to fully investigate Audible yet.

Thanks! This is certainly a viable work-around.

[njaremka]

glad to help!