Posted by Gary on 11/16/82 11:51

WOW! That's great news. Before my iPod I used an Archos, and had
Rockbox on it. It was a terrific alternate software that I hear
Archos is now distributing with new Archos.

I'll look into Rockbox for the iPod right away.

On 29 Jun 2006 00:33:43 +0200, Tom Cole <tacoleNOSPAM@yahoo.co.nz>
wrote:

>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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