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AIBU to want a CD player that resumes playback from where I paused it?

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LadyCactus · 12/09/2024 20:26

Help, please, hive mind of Mumsnet. Does anyone know of a CD player that will resume play from where you left off listening to it, even if it was days ago? You know like some car CD players do - you turn the car on, and the CD starts from where it was when you turned the car off? Rather than going all the way back to the beginning?

I'm going mad trying to find one online! I think it might be called a 'Resume Play' function, but it doesn't seem to exist on an ordinary CD player.

I want it for my kids, who love audiobook CDs. They have Roald Dahl CDs where each book is a single track - so a track can be over 3 hrs long! They can't listen to it in one sitting, obviously, but I can't leave the CD on pause for 24 hours or longer. So what happens is, I press stop, and then the next day we have to try to fast forward through 2 hours of track to find where we were.... It just doesn't work and it's driving me bananas.

Please help! (And please don't just say 'buy a Yoto' because I already have loads of audiobook CDs and I don't want to have to repurchase them all as Yotos.) I'm looking for a standard CD player rather than a personal Discman type one, because I'd like my kids to be able to listen to the story at the same time.

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Ineffable23 · 12/09/2024 21:07

Can you rip the CDs to MP3 using a computer and then just use an MP3 player? Then it would be able to remember where you left off and might be more future proof than a CD player?

MissBattleaxe · 12/09/2024 21:06

I say "Alexa pause" and "Alexa resume"

LadyCactus · 12/09/2024 21:05

Honestly truly they have existed in the past! Sony Discmans used to have it as a a function that you could switch on and off with a slide button. Lots of car CD players do it - the one I own now does. But for some reason, standard CD players don't seem to have it as an option.

Yes, they really should have had breaks put in them, ideally a track per chapter. But they haven't. It's rubbish 😂

It's just so frustrating as I want my children to be able to put the audiobooks on themselves, to have ownership over what they listen to. I could give in and rebuy all the books on Audible but a) that would be prohibitively pricey, and b) it would mean the children would need internet access / to use my phone to listen.

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FluentSloth · 12/09/2024 20:50

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