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Posted by sn00ge on 10/16/92 11:51
Gary wrote:
> I bought an expensive iPod and am finding it to be a pain in the tail
> setting up files to read (or listen to) as books. Here's an example
> of what I'm faced with:
>
> I have this Teaching Company course as 216 mp3 files. Here are the
> file names:
>
> 0101 Beethoven And The Piano.mp3
> 0102 Beethoven And The Piano.mp3
[snip]
> I am hoping that someone on this group knows a better way to do jobs
> like this, which are the bulk of what I listen to on the iPod. It
> would be so much easier if the iPod supported stopping and restarting
> playlists (you can stop and restart individual files, if you know
> which file you were listening to when you stopped).
I may be a little unclear on what you're trying to do. On my
iPod, if I stop it and then start it again, it picks up where it
left off. Unless, that is, if I plug it in to the computer. Then,
then, yes, it forgets where it was. Is this what you're talking
about?
If so, then you can get around this using smart playlists. You
can make a smart playlist for "Play count is 0". Then any files
you put on your iPod will go into that playlist, but once they're
played, they'll drop off of it. You can then set up another smart
playlist with "Play count is 1" and either delete the files once
they make it there, or, once they've all played (and so are all
in the Play count is 1 playlist), reset the Play count to 0 and
start over.
If this works for you, then you won't have to combine the mp3
files.
There are ways to manually set the play count of files on the
iPod. On Macs, we can use Applescript, e.g.,
<http://www.dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/scripts09.php?page=5#
newplayedcount>
This idea can be extended, with smart playlists for, say, various
genres, with "Play count is 0, 2, 4, 6, ...," and then a "Delete"
smart playlist with "Play count is 1, 3, 5, 7, ..."
--
-Bo Parker
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