Recommend an audio book player for Windows
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Can anyone recommend a good audio player for large mp3 files?
I've tried a few and they are all rubbish.
I have a number of audio books in mp3 format, the file might be 14 hours long or more. Most players don't allow you to easily move to a specific point, they either only move at small intervals such as 30 secs per button click (useless if you needing to get to hour 12...) or they are so blunt you can only jump in 20 min intervals but slowly and a complete guess. Again making it hard to get back to where you.
Some claim to be able to bookmark progress, but of the free ones I've not found any that are reliable. Some can't even count seconds accurately. So even if you note the point you are at, if you have to reload the file it can be almost impossible to get back to where you were.
I've tried a few and they are all rubbish.
I have a number of audio books in mp3 format, the file might be 14 hours long or more. Most players don't allow you to easily move to a specific point, they either only move at small intervals such as 30 secs per button click (useless if you needing to get to hour 12...) or they are so blunt you can only jump in 20 min intervals but slowly and a complete guess. Again making it hard to get back to where you.
Some claim to be able to bookmark progress, but of the free ones I've not found any that are reliable. Some can't even count seconds accurately. So even if you note the point you are at, if you have to reload the file it can be almost impossible to get back to where you were.
It could be that they are designed primarily for M4B files (chapters and all) - though the excellent Smart AudioBook Player I use on Android for my non-Audible books handles all those things you mention just fine, so those others probably should too, I can't find anything similar for Windows though.
To be honest I would just use something like Media Player Classic-HC though it's a video player - I have it via the codec pack I use, it handles M4B files and works well for very long MP3s, you can quite easily seek down to the second, and you can add favourites/shortcuts to files with a remembered position.
To be honest I would just use something like Media Player Classic-HC though it's a video player - I have it via the codec pack I use, it handles M4B files and works well for very long MP3s, you can quite easily seek down to the second, and you can add favourites/shortcuts to files with a remembered position.
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