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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Swissboy" data-source="post: 3153347" data-attributes="member: 4926">Success with my replacing attemptsYes, that Travelsound set-up is great. I had seen it first when a Chicago birder used it to verify a shorebird call in the field. My sound memory would be too limited to use the device for that. But I was immediately impressed and bought the components while still visiting my son. The BirdJam download was done at home as apple would not have provided an opportunity to transfer the ordered item to my own computer later.Meanwhile, those blackouts mentioned earlier have become so bad that the ipod has become virtually useless.Anyway, I have worked for more than just the full weekend now to get a replacement set-up started. And I think I have finally been successful. It took the Stokes CDs, that I converted to mp3 first. Then, each single entry had to be named as an info along the lines of "session 1, track 46" is not very helpful in the long run. Then, all those tracks with two species on them had to be split - using my newly acquired AVS software. And as many recordings occurred on both the eastern and the western CD set, I had to find a way to combine them. I had decided against sorting them out and keeping just the better version. And combining to a single recording might have been possible, but only with lots more time and effort to be put into this. So I decided to keep all the recordings. They are definitely not simple duplicates, judging from the lenghth.A simple complete listing would have been impossible due to the limitations my Olympus device sets. But it would also have been tedious to get to a specific recording. So I now have two versions on the same SD card. One version is alphabetical, with groups not larger than about 50 entries (not species as there is often at least a second entry per species). Thus, one group within the letter r is just those names which begin with "Red". This arrangement results in around 30 folders. A second set follows a more systematic approach. Thus alcids, finches, shearwaters etc each make up a folder. This approach resulted in about 68 folders. So there is still some leeway to the maximum of 127 possible folders. I patterned this after the Bird Guides iDentify package that I have for Europe. Of course with the necessary adaptations. From previous uses, I have learned that both the alphabetical and the systematic lists can be helpful. So the only drawback now is the fact that the Olympus device has a very weak speaker. Thus I need to carry along a separate one. The first one (see attached picture) that had been recommended to me here on BF may have never worked. But I'm not sure as it is too long ago that I had bought it. Anyway, it is not working now. Claiming any warranty seemed to be too uncertain at this point to even try.I found a comparable but probably somewhat sturdier - but also heavier - speaker in a local electronics shop. With the advantage that I could easily go back in case of malfunction. The second picture shows the comparison between what I consider the ideal set (with the Travelsound speaker) and what I use now. Of course, the bulkier Olympus solution has a built-in recording and microphone part. And it is actually meant as a recorder first, and not really that much for playbacks.So, if anybody knows of a recommendable mp3 player with decent built-in speaker and SD card slot, I'm still in the market! Thanks.</blockquote>

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