I heartily second Charlie's recommendation for using an iPod for bird songs. I used to use a mini-disc MP3 player for many years. When it started having problems about 6 months ago, I went to a mini iPod with 4gb memory. I first became aware of using the iPod when a trip leader at the ABA Conference in Midland, MI last May was using one. I have almost 700 songs on it from the Stoke's Western and Eastern Region CDs. It only uses about 25% of the memory. It is very easy to get the songs on the iPod. The only time consuming part is changing all the Track 1, Track 2, etc. names to the bird names. I used the 4 letter band codes which is a little faster than typing in the whole name. I use the same Radio Shack speaker, about $10-15, I used with the mini-disc player.

Hugh Jennings
Bellevue, WA
hughbirder at earthlink.net