I realise that you can do this on iPods and other players by holding down the appropriate button for a moment or two, but does anyone know of an MP3 player that can jump back a few seconds with a single click of a button? My Nokia phone can, but it has other flaws that make it unsatisfactory as an MP3 player.
I’ve tried Googling, but it seems the only real way to find out this sort of thing is to get a copy of the manual for each product, if you can find one.
[I would use this feature a lot because I listen to language learning material, and often want to replay the previous few seconds several times. The press-and-hold method is awkward and error-prone – hold it down too long and you jump too far back, release too early or hit the button wrong and you go all the way back to the start of the track.]
It’s not a button, but the iPod Touch has a slider that you can move forward or back fairly accurately, with a counter so you can see how many seconds you’ve moved.
Actually, the iPod has ‘jump backwards’ capability. While listening to an mp3, press the center button. The progress bar will change into a little blue diamond, which is moved back and forth by use of the wheel.
For the love of og, please add this to all playing devices!!! Tivo has a button which will jump back 10 seconds and it is fantastic. Miss what they said, boop-beep, listen again. My DVD player has a button that provides the same function–press button, move back 10 seconds. Every time you press the button it moves back another 10 seconds.
I hate having to push some slider back to hear what I missed. I always go too far or not far enough. Then I when I try to move it again I get that wrong too.
Yeah, I use that method for zooming to a particular point in a track. But for a quick 5-second backward jump it’s even more fiddly than the press-and-hold method. It takes several operations, and you have to look at the screen while you’re doing it. I just want a simple one-click method than you can use without looking at the device, without judging how long to hold a button down, how far to slide your thumb etc.
Best button ever. My roommate doesn’t use this button at all and drives me nuts when she needs to jump backwards a bit to show me something that she thinks I must see.
Are there alternate music players for the iPhone/iPod Touch? I assume there’s no reason someone couldn’t sit down and write a music player from scratch, adding whatever features they thought were missing from the .mp3 player than comes standard, right? I also assume it’s possible with that the Palm Pre and Android phones and hope there will be ones available.
(For instance, I had a Palm pilot that included a mediocre .mp3 player. I found a much better one for $15, that also played .ogg files, included an equalizer, etc. Sold!)
Sony Walkman MP3 players have this ability. Works like most cd players do, hold the back button down for ~1 second or so and it’ll start jumping backwards.
Just throwing that out there since it doesn’t sound like you wanna throw down the cash for an Ipod. Walkman’s were $65 for 4 gig, $85 for for 8 gig, when i priced them 4-6 months ago.
That’s not really a single click, though. That is press-and-hold, as described in the first line of the OP. “Click” means press and immediately release
The vast majority of MP3 players (and the vast majority of CD players) all have the same design: the “rewind” button will jump back to the beginning of the track if you tap it (or back a full track if you’re already at the beginning), but backtrack a few seconds at a time if you hold it down.