I've lately been playing around with the new Rio Fuse MP3 player. It works just fine but being as tiny as it is, it has one drawback. A small player means small controls.
I've been recording Al Franken's shows and some others that aren't on Air America and attempting to listen to them while walking or driving or even working. What keeps happening is that I get two or two and a half hours into a three hour recording and then I have to pause it and resume later. There's a way to do this if you're real careful and delicate with the controls but I'm your basic klutz and what I keep doing is hitting the buttons wrong and losing my place. So when I go to restart playback, I find myself at the beginning of the recording. This is much easier to do than it oughta be.
I've partially solved the problem by chopping the MP3 files into small files but it's still annoying to listen to 40 minutes of a 60 minute file then lose your place. What I'd like to do is find another MP3 player where this won't happen. (I also wouldn't mind one that held more than 128MB.) I'd like to be able to listen for a while, then turn the thing off, then turn it on the next day and be right where I left off. And I'd like it not to be easy for me to lose my place. The Fuse has a "bookmark" feature but it seems too awkward for my purposes.
Anyone here got an idea what I want to go out and buy?