Stupid MP3 Player
My MP3 player is dumb. It’s a Creative Nomad IIc, and I’ve had it for a while now. It has pretty decent sound quality, and I really haven’t had any problems with it (though I think it did freeze up once and I had to “reboot” (pull battery)) except that it is slightly annoying that when it lists songs it doesn’t show enough characters.
The thing supports variable bit rate MP3’s. It even recognizes them and labels the file as VBR when you play it. The funny thing is that when you do play it, it has no idea how long the song is. Obviously it is programmed to estimate the time remaining based on filesize and the current bitrate, because as it plays, the time remaining changes every second or two, moving up or down as much as a minute. It’s completely clueless. The worst part is that it is incapable of fast forwarding or rewinding. If you try, it completely looses it’s place and restarts the song. This isn’t something I do very often, so I just noticed yesterday, even though I’ve been playing VBR MP3’s on it for quite some time. The problem is minor, but it’s still dumb.
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