The lack of A-B repeat function on all the iPod devices made them the worst MP3 players to use in the study of a foreign language.

The A-B repeat allows you to select part of a track (perhaps 2 seconds, perhaps 3 minutes etc., up to you) to listen to repeatedly without having to continually manually reset the start position. This is essential if you want to hear and understand a tough Thai language dialogue.

About 8 years ago, most MP3 player had an A-B repeat. Apple made the decision not to include this function as it felt it would confuse their customer base. Apple does not have a high opinion of its customer base.

Finally somebody has made an app to resolve this problem. Works on iTouch, iPad, iPhone.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/repeater/id359823184?mt=8

Annoyingly for me, I still can't use on my old-style iPod.

(By the way, if your looking for A-B repeat on your computer I recommend the GOM player)

Anyway, let's have some feedback if you load it onto your MP3 devices.

:jap:

Thanks for the tip.

What you could do, is what I've been doing sofar:

Cut the sentences into different mp3 files (plenty of programmes out there to edit mp3's)

This will also allow you to play them randomly and to take out the ones you do not need anymore.

Ben