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Posted by Gary on 10/16/95 11:51
Thank you for your reply. Your smart playlist based on play count is
ingenious.
Here's what I'm trying to accomplish:
I have a ReplayTV (like a TIVO) in which I have multiple recordings. I
can select any of them and watch all or part of it. I can stop and go
to a different recording. The machine always asks me whether I want
to play the recording from the beginning, or whether I want to
continue from where I left off. That is user friendly. Further I can
point at the name of the recording...I never have to worry whether I
was on chapter 1 or track 15.
I want to get that kind of functionality from my iPod. I really think
the best solution would be for them to have automatic bookmarks for
each playlist...i.e., each playlist can be resumed. But that doesn't
exist yet. I have requested it of Apple, but I expect to be an old
man (what am I saying...I am already an old man) before I see it
happen.
On 28 Jun 2006 09:21:32 -0700, sn00ge@hotmail.com wrote:
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>Gary wrote:
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>> 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
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>> 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).
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>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?
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>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.,
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><http://www.dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/scripts09.php?page=5#
>newplayedcount>
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>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, ..."
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