Anti-shock not well; Variable Bitrate Issues; Study Mode too little for iMPs?

[adam917]

Here's a problem that I never had on my iMP-550 nor iMP-150 but am having on the iMP-900 (on all devices, I always have the anti-shock set to the highest value, and the shock-free mode on):

I play an MP3-CD and I when I walk around outside with it in my Case Logic CD player case looped onto my belt (it barely moves when I walk), it may skip when it runs out of memory buffer. On the iMP-900, when the buffer runs out, the sound doesn't mute and attempt to re-read this segment of the CD; it just skips to the next file! This is extremely annoying for the CD-Rs that I have with DJ mixes that may last hours per file and having to forward or rewind back to the position where I left off at. Most of my material is 192 kbps and higher, though I have some material below 96 kbps. The problem happens more on the higher-bitrate material. I even tried with different anti-shock settings and still to no avail. I wonder when will iRiver come out with something like Sony has with their G-Protection, which is virtually skip-proof.

Secondly, they should fix the variable bitrate timing issue. There's a whole host of features I can't use, like resume, FF/REW, Study Mode, A->B repeat, Bookmark, Remaining time, etc. How hard is this to fix? Winamp, Foobar, XMMS, and other popular software audio players (not Windows Media Player, though) easily handle VBR files.

Thirdly, is it possible for Study Mode to be enhanced like it was with the HDD & flash devices to accomodate a higher time? I see Study Mode on the flash players go up to a nice 180 seconds and the HDD's Study Mode go up to somewhere in the minutes (it allows you to pick minutes and seconds). This will greatly help navigating long files, like DJ mixes, live concerts, symphonies, audio books, and more. I'd be happy to see a maximum of even 10 minutes for Study Mode.

Those are the only major things bugging me with iRiver right now.