My player is fully charged, but the sound has become very erratic: a syllable, a word, a sentence, then silence. The track is running: I can see the time passing on the counter at the bottom. I have reset it several times, and that does not help. Since I cannot replace the battery, is it time to buy a new player?
(By the way, in an earlier post on another thread, someone mentioned it is difficult to reset with a safety pin. I use a thin paper clip. The flat end works better than a pin.)

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