Can't Play Songs After Bookmarking

[corel421]

I create a bookmark for a song.  Then I go back to the file browser.  If I open any file, rockbox plays the bookmark, not the file I opened. What is wrong?

[Yotto]

Check the manual on bookmarking. In particular, the options for when and how to load bookmarks.

I personally set it to "ask"

[corel421]

Opening a song that does not have a bookmark should never load a bookmark on a different song regardless of settings.

[Yotto]

We (you and I) have differing opinions on that. As do the Rockbox developers.

Bookmarks are not on *SONGS*. They are on *PLAYLISTS*. If you open a song in a folder, Rockbox generates a playlist for you. If you make a bookmark of that playlist, Rockbox treats that folder like it's a playlist next time you select a song in it. If you choose (By setting the menu to do so) to load the bookmark, then the bookmark will load. If you choose (Again in the menu settings) to not load the bookmark, it won't. Or, you can choose for Rockbox to ask for confirmation about the bookmark (In the menu settings) and you get the choice to decide on the fly if you want to load the bookmark or not.

[pixelma]

Yotto:
Are you trying to say that once you have bookmarked something, you can't start another song (or another playlist) in the folder the bookmark is in anymore? -- I'm pretty sure this is not true.

corel421:
Can you tell us which player you have and how you chose a song to play, which buttons you press?

[Yotto]

@pixelma: I'm saying that you can set Rockbox up to do that with songs.

Set "load last bookmark" to "yes" (not "ask")
Set "Bookmark on stop" to "yes" (This is just to make it easier to create a bookmark)
Go to a folder with no bookmarks, start playing a song. This will create a dynamic playlist for that folder and play the song.
Stop playing. This will create a bookmark of that song.
Select any OTHER song in the directory.
It will load the bookmark and not play the song you picked. It will play the one you bookmarked.

NOTE: This won't work with playlists. If you select a playlist, the above setup will load that playlist and its bookmark.

[pixelma]

Yotto:
My first impressions of your posts were that they are a bit unrelated. At least they confuse me since -- what you explain now - is what the original poster does not want to achieve, rather solve it.

But, after reading your last one a few times,  I found one hint in it:
It could be worth for corel421 to check the "Load last bookmark" setting and set it to e.g. "Ask" or "No" if it is set to "Yes" currently.

[Yotto]

I do not mean to confuse. In reading back, though, I can't see how I am confusing.

My first post said to set bookmarking to "ask" which is why you are suggesting now.

My second post explained why Rockbox does what it does when set to "yes" which you are suggesting the original poster NOT do.

My third post was directed at you, because it seemed to me that you did not believe me that Rockbox would act that way. It went into more depth about what Rockbox would do when bookmarking was set to "yes."