Worlds's Best Audiobook Player, iPod Nano auto-pause question

[quienes]

I'm a retired computer techie who spends hours every day listening to audiobooks.  Rockbox has made this easy and enjoyable since I first discovered it 2 years ago.  My apologies if this is posted in the wrong forum.

Many thanks to the original Swedish developers and all the members of the subsequent the Rockbox team for creating the world's best Audiobook software.  The ability to easily create [and easily resume from] an essentially unlimited number of bookmarks from any  number of Audiobooks is the most compelling feature for me.

Another great feature is the option to automatically pause, rewind "n" seconds, then resume when the headphones are removed and plugged in again respectively.  This has worked flawlessly for me with 1G and 2G  [both m/n A1051] iPod Minis and "iPod 4th gen Grayscale " [m/n A1059].

2 questions:

1/  Can anyone add some non-iPod MP3 players [with the above pause-resume]  to this list ?   If I go outside the iPod family this is a must-have feature for me - and this thread could be a good place to collect such a list for everyone.

2/  Re the 1G iPod Nano [A1137]  AFAIK, the pause-resume feature has never worked,  I just tried it again with the latest 3.3 build.
Since is has always been described as working in the Nano manuals [ including the one viewed today ] my suggestion is that it be removed from the manual - I suspect that the Nano hardware does not provide the necessary hooks to support the feature in Rockbox.    Alternately, can it be made to work ?  Please post a reply if you know any tricks to make it work.

TIA,  QE in NJ

 

[GodEater]

Hi there, glad you're liking our little toy

With regards to your questions :

1) The pause / rewind on unplug of headphones requires specific hardware support. As far as I know only the iPods and (I think) the gigabeat F support that feature. However, it's been suggested quite a few times now that we support a pause and rewind "n" seconds feature independent of removing the headphones in quite a few other places. To my knowledge though, no-one's working on it yet.

2) Interesting, I'll see if I can get some other people to check that feature on the iPod Nano. It *should* work as far as I'm aware.

[Llorean]

I just tried with a 16 day old build on my iPod Nano and it worked fine. It also works fine after updating my nano to current SVN, and I've also just tried the 3.3 release and it paused on headphone removal too.

It sounds like you may just have a faulty Nano.

[quienes]

I just tried with a 16 day old build on my iPod Nano and it worked fine. It also works fine after updating my nano to current SVN, and I've also just tried the 3.3 release and it paused on headphone removal too.

It sounds like you may just have a faulty Nano.

Hi Paul -  coincidence - yesterday I listened to your great Rockbox interview on
http://www.twit.tv/floss43.   That was fun for me.

Thanks for your reply and testing.

I re-did my Nano from scratch with the same, no-joy, results.  I have access to 2 more 1G Nanos that I can test with but it will take some time to get hold of them.  Good guess that my Nano is broken - b/c the feature never worked on it.

2 questions if you have the time sometime:

1/  does your Nano pause on headfone disconnect in iPod mode ?   

2/  in RB mode will yours un-pause as well as pause, per "settings/playback set.../pause.../pause.../pause and resume"  ? Cookbook instructions for ease of experimentation by less experienced users reading this :-)

Cheers,  QE in NJ

[Llorean]

1) I can't test this. I have no audio accessible by the OF and no software for syncing such. What the OF does is mostly irrelevant anyway. As I've said, it definitely works in Rockbox for me..

2) Yes. It's the same hardware for headphone detection, so there was really no reason this case should be different than the simple "pause" case. But yeah, tested and works.

[quienes]

1) I can't test this. I have no audio accessible by the OF and no software for syncing such. What the OF does is mostly irrelevant anyway. As I've said, it definitely works in Rockbox for me..

2) Yes. It's the same hardware for headphone detection, so there was really no reason this case should be different than the simple "pause" case. But yeah, tested and works.

Thanks for everything - you have made 2 ppl in NJ happy today !!

I just finished swapping Nano's with my grandson.   He got my 4GB that doesn't pause on disconnect, even in the iPod firmware.    I got his 2GB in exchange - and after I Rockbox it,  it will be my favorite, small MP3 player for listening to Audiobooks - b/c, as you predicted,  all the automatic pause--continue stuff works on it. 

Cheers and Thanks again,  QE in NJ

[AlexP]

Hi,

I'm glad you got it all working.  I have a small request - please could you use proper words and not shortcuts such as b/c and ppl.  Many people use these forums either with translation software or screen readers, and such terms can be confusing.

Thanks!