Bookmark files on the SD card?

[Sirocco]

Better make all the necessary apologies first, since I'm a "newby".  If I'm posting in the wrong section, please tell me the correct section - I would appreciate it.

So, regarding my question, is it possible to bookmark files on the SD card (using Rockbox) in my Sansa e280?  (i.e., the one I will buy if my question is answered satisfactorily).

[michael.conner]

Yes, it works quite nicely.

[Sirocco]

Please give me an example of a bookmark for a file on an SD card.  I'm interested in seeing the exact info represented in a bookmark.

[GodEater]

All a bookmark does is save your current position in an audio track that you were playing. There's not much to give in the way of an example - if I attached one here, all you'd see if the filename, and should you choose to open it, a bunch of binary data that lets Rockbox restart the track at the recorded position.

[Sirocco]

That's why I asked to see a sample bookmark.   It's important that a bookmark mark not just a file, but a POSITION in a file.  For example, the bookmarks made by my Samsung YP-T8 look like [02:15:22 file1name.mp3].  This tells me both the relative and absolute position of the bookmark, since if there were several bookmarks for a file, I want to select the correct one.  So if there were another bookmark in the list that was [03:44:05 file1name.mp3], I would know that the one that started with 03:44:05 was the later one.   It's always a shame when a bookmark consists of only the file name and not a time stamp too.

But you're saying that the bookmark made by the Rockbox only contains the file name, which means that it doesn't tell me the absolute or relative position of the bookmark, which means that it is useless, and that the bookmark feature of Roxbox is therefore useless.   On the other hand, if the bookmark includes the timestamp (i.e., the POSITION in a file), that would be useful, and good news to me.

Comprende?

[Chronon]

Please re-read what GodEater wrote.  

[pixelma]

If you search around information in the manual which cost a few people a lot of work to put together (and you agreed on doing this when registering), you could have found:


(looks a bit different now but the functionality is the same). And...

Bookmarks allow you to save your current position within a track so that you can return to it at a later time. Bookmarks are saved on a per folder basis. In other words, all of the files in the same folder have their bookmarks stored together in the folder where the files are located. You can store multiple bookmarks for the same track.

Doesn't matter here if the folder is on the internal memory or the memory card (if you tried bookmarking only with files on the internal memory you could have imagined. ...and please read the answers more thoroughly.

[Sirocco]