Playaways - practical question

[Andrew]

My library has recently taken delivery of some brilliant new machines called Playaways. They are MP3 players about the size of a small cigarette packet, preloaded with an entire audio-book, with a picture of the book's cover stuck onto the front of the machine. The player is quite tough and the controls are designed to be easy to use. (You can't record anything else onto it, so you can't record over the story and people are less likely to keep it !)

You can see what they look like here: http://www.playawaydigital.com/

Anyway, my question:
I've just started listening to one and want to list it. What would be a good standard name for it, in the title and format parts.
e.g. We currently have:
abcde (Audio cassette)
or
Format: Audio CD

I would suggest:
Playaway
or
MP3 player
or
what do you suggest ?

[Andrew]

Any advice please, people ?

[Sara ♥]

I like "digital audio player". It's descriptive, but generic enough that if someone else comes out with similar technology, the same title could apply.

[John, Moderator]

I would use the ISBN for the underlying recording, based on knowing the production company, which is what I do for audible.com downloads.

[Andrew]

John, the item's case has it's own ISBN, but is not found on GR or Amazon.

I'm going to try listing this one with its format as "digital audio player" as people have suggested and see how we go from there.

[John, Moderator]

Agreed on using that term.

[Suchin]

Un-environmental pricey little thing I say. If the idea to "must have" any audio content why not just use a cheap chip?

If you like to keep what you have copied onto a chip, then I think maybe just Audio/Mp3. But you could file it for what the format originated from, Audio/Vinyl, Audio/Tape, Audio/CD, Audio/Mp3, Audio/WWW. The latter could be a whole lot more refined, like Audio/WWW/Podcast, Audio/WWW/YouTube/Books. You can't do this here but you could use A program for collectors of Mp3 files

Good luck.

[S.G]

Wov, I have been using Collectorz for a while. Someone else turned me onto this after I voiced problems with listing my audio files here. It would of course be better to have it all online, maybe one day...