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Audio book support, Sansa clip style.

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shinobi:
I've become very spoiled with the Sansa Clip audio book handling.

It works like this;
I place audio book files in a folder called "audiobook" on drive.
And now the Clip manages these files with permanent automatic bookmarks.

I can go play a song at any time, and the bookmark will be saved automatically. Whenever I open an Audio book-mode it resumes whatever book or disc I was listening to. Saves bookmarks for any and all files individually.

I tried using the bookmarking feature on the ipod port of rockbox, but I'm forgetful and manage to forget to bookmark it most of the time..
Automatic bookmarking doesn't work very well since it then will start songs in the middle too.

bluebrother:

--- Quote from: shinobi on June 22, 2010, 11:49:57 PM ---Automatic bookmarking doesn't work very well since it then will start songs in the middle too.

--- End quote ---

You can set automatic bookmarks to "ask" or "resume bookmark" to ask.

torne:
I'm working on a patch that should help you with this, which I'm going to submit soon:
http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/6272

What this will enable you to do is to manually bookmark the audiobook once, and then it will bookmark it automatically after that, i.e. you can have it automatically *update* bookmarks without creating them for files that don't have any.

The current state of the patch is not ideal but it does work; I'm changing the way the settings are structured before submission.

shinobi:
Could it be made to always bookmark in a special folder?

torne:
That's exactly what th option I mentioned above will do: bookmarks for files played from a folde are stored in a per folder bookmark file, so if you bookmark one file in the folder, then it will indeed bookmark everything in that folder after that.

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