With all of the kerfuffle over "Zune: Hot or Not?", I've realized that there are a few features I've looked for in portable media players that nobody seems to offer. One of them is the ability to bookmark an arbitrary point in the middle of a song -- for instance, the drum solo in a 14-minute live version of your favorite progressive-rock jam, or maybe the track points on a disc where the guys at the pressing plant messed up and somehow authored the whole disc as a single giant track.
Do any of the current players do this? I know my own iRiver doesn't. Not having it is no deal-killer, but having it might be a deal-maker!
or maybe the track points on a disc where the guys at the pressing plant messed up and somehow authored the whole disc as a single giant track.
Take a look at cue sheets.
From the wikipedia article:
A cue sheet, or cue file, is an ASCII (plain text) file that specifies how the tracks of a compact disc should be laid out. Cue sheets commonly have a ".cue" filename extension. They were originally used for the CDRWIN CD recording program, but are also used with other CD software as well as music and video playback software.
For an audio CD, the cue sheet can specify titles and performers for the disc and its tracks as well as the names of one or more audio files to be used. MP3, WAV and BIN files are often used, although some programs support other formats. Cue sheets are especially useful when burning or listening to live sets where all tracks are recorded in one file.