Posted by Tom Cole on 11/16/23 11:51

There is alternate software for iPods called Rockbox
http://www.rockbox.org/ Although this is beta software at present, it
has the bookmarking facility you describe.


On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 21:06:35 GMT, Gary <gary_w1@hotmail.com> wrote:

>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:
>
>>
>>
>>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, ..."

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