Well, that's hopeful. Here's hoping, anyway.

[kyrielle]

Returned the mp3 player to Fry's, picked up new one. I had considered getting one of the same kind in case it was just defective, but they had a Creative that's explicitly compatible with these audiobooks on sale...for $5 more than the one I'd gotten before, after a mail-in rebate. So, I'll give it a couple days and if it works as well as I hope, I'll send that in for the rebate. So far, no clue: I only just installed the software and I don't foresee testing it tonight.

I'm almost immediately reminded that I hate the Creative UI, though. The player is the USB attachment, which sounds sweet until you realize that they're a pain in the backside to get separate from each other (you have to unplug it from the power unit in order to attach it to the computer, a non-trivial task in my experience - and what the heck would someone with arthritis do?? difficult!).

Also, Fry's apparently (I was told) stocks mp3 players in three departments. No one told me what the third is, but the first is audio and the second is computers. They do NOT stock the SAME players in all locations: those made by computer manufacturers are in computers, those made by audio companies are in audio. *sarcasm* Because THAT is how MOST people go looking for an mp3 player. "I want one that's made by a computer company!" "Well, _I_ think companies that make other _audio_ stuff would do it better!"

Well, I just want to be able to find and browse and compare all the products. Grrrr.

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[davmoo.livejournal.com]

This is probably the same kind of logic that dictates that at my local Fry's, hard drives, motherboards, and anything having to do with networking is at one end of the building...and anything having to do with CD/DVD drives, video cards, sound cards, keyboards, etc, is quite literally at the opposite end of the store.

[angelamermaid.livejournal.com]

I still don't understand how travelling to three departments to look at the same type of product is customer friendly.

My first mp3 player was a n Autobaby that I won at a company event. You had to push out the USB attachment to plug it into the computer. I wasn't too upset when it eventually got fried, it only held about 30 songs and constantly had to be reformatted. Mu iPod shuffle is a dream in comparison.

[kyrielle]

I'm pretty sure you don't understand that because it simply isn't so, but that's just me.

I would like a push-out attachment better than a pull-off one. It is easy for fingers to slip - I had that happen with the old one a lot more than I actually got it out successfully, on any given try - and even if they don't, you worry that squeezing too hard will bust something your fingers must rest on. Or you bump 'play' - just before you disconnect it (if you are lucky and succeed--) and cut power....