Resume on the NW-A808?

[jroeben]

Hi,

I am seriously thinking about getting an NW-A808. I currently own an Iaudio D2 and while the sound quality is great, other features just aren´t. Usability with the tuchscreen is not that great, especially when you try to operate it "in pocket", the video features are very limited when it comes to formats etc.

Anyway, one thing I really need (well, want) on the NW-A808 is some sort of resume functionality or some sort of in-track bookmarking.

With the D2 I can pause a track, turn off the device and it will pick up where I stopped the next time I turn it on. This does, however, not work if you play another track and then go back to the first track. For that there is in-track bookmarjing. You just save a bookmark while playing a track and whenever you feel like it, you brwose a list of saved bookmarks and pick up where you left off, no matter how many tracks you might have played in the meantime. This is especially useful for audiobooks of course.

Is there anything like this on the NW-A808?

Thanks!

[gotthat]

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[Shinji Ikeda]

Hi,

I am seriously thinking about getting an NW-A808. I currently own an Iaudio D2 and while the sound quality is great, other features just aren´t. Usability with the tuchscreen is not that great, especially when you try to operate it "in pocket", the video features are very limited when it comes to formats etc.

Anyway, one thing I really need (well, want) on the NW-A808 is some sort of resume functionality or some sort of in-track bookmarking.

With the D2 I can pause a track, turn off the device and it will pick up where I stopped the next time I turn it on. This does, however, not work if you play another track and then go back to the first track. For that there is in-track bookmarjing. You just save a bookmark while playing a track and whenever you feel like it, you brwose a list of saved bookmarks and pick up where you left off, no matter how many tracks you might have played in the meantime. This is especially useful for audiobooks of course.

Is there anything like this on the NW-A808?

Thanks!

Hello Jroeben,

Welcome to ATRACLife. From the features that you have described that the Iaudio D2 has, I can tell you that the NW-A808 (specifically NW-A800 series) has is different. The NW-A800 series is design as a music player

When the NW-A808 is turn on it returns the last content that as being accessed before it was turned off. The NW-A808 will resume from that point. No matter the previous content, the NW-A808 can resume from the point that the last song was paused. The NW-A808 does not support resumption of play from multiple tracks.

The function of bookmarks on the NW-A808 is for creating playlists.

With video files, however, they will start from where they were stopped no matter how many videos you might have played. This is automatic on the NW-A800 series, but not the feature you have described.

The NW-A800 does have resumption of the last song played, when turned off, or video content played. Resumption of a previous track played is not possible.

If you have any further questions please ask.

[jroeben]

Thank you very much for that! So not really ideal for audiobooks unless you don´t listen to anything else in between "reading" sessions..hmmm..

[Shinji Ikeda]

Thank you very much for that! So not really ideal for audiobooks unless you don´t listen to anything else in between "reading" sessions..hmmm..

I am not familiar with audio books. Is it correct to suspect that audiobooks are generally one long continuous file, or segments over 5 minutes? With the NW-A800 series it is possible to search for and play one album only. So if the files are small enough then, it could be manageable. Unfortunately, the NW-A808 is designed more for music playback.

[jroeben]

Both possible. Well, I will have to do some thinking .

Thank you very much for your help!