Matt

Matt Wheeler wrote:
Now, My query is, do Sony's hi-md minidisc players, or the HD3 suffer

this issue ? Are there other "mp3" players (preferably supporting
WMA), that i may want to consider that would play the tracks as
intended (ie without a couple of seconds enforced gap), or is this an

inherent design feature of new technology. ie do any current mp3
players pre-load the next track before the current has finished ?

I don't have one, but I investigated buying the Iriver H-140 or H-120.
One of the criticisms in some of the comments was that the Iriver did
exactly this. A fix was promised in a software upgrade, but don't know
if it was delivered. I also don't know if this affects the newer Iriver
players.

I also have an "MP3" player question. I still listen to vinyl as well
as CD (no, let's not start an argument). At sometime I'd like to copy
tracks from vinyl to CD. Trouble is, the hi-fi is in a different room
and floor from the computer. I have thought that I could get an Iriver
(or another player that does line-in encoding), encode the sound from
the LP (via the amplifier's tape-out), preferably as a WAV file for
best quality. I could then put this WAV file onto my PC - clean it up
if needed - and write to a CD.

Has anyone else tried this? How good are the results?

Thanks

Toby