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Sansa style audiobook handling

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kholto:
As others, I am spoiled with how the Sansa OF handled audiobooks. I know several solutions have been implemented to get closer to this, but I am unsure if I am using them right.

The feature to update bookmarks on stop seems the closest, and I don't mind making a bookmark once for a book.
The bookmarks only seem to update if i switch the player off, not if i pause my audiobook and go listen to music, I have "bookmark on stop" to off and "update on stop" to yes, and then I make a new bookmark for the book.
Each new update is listed separately in "recent bookmarks" apparently, this is not really a problem though.
The database includes audiobooks, can I have it ignore a specific folder or am I stuck with making a playlist of everything else, then using that? (for music in random order that is)

Can I somehow use the automatic resume to get closer to how the sansa OF works with audiobooks?

Please give advice on these things, Dualbooting is a bit ruined by the "building database" I would have to wait for in the OF.

(Also, I have two clip+'s one with 3.10 stable, the other with cd5ee6f-120306, most of these experiences are made on the cd5ee6f-120306)

EDIT: Corrected a few mistakes, also:
Shutting down the player whenever I stop listening to the audiobook seems acceptable, since rockbox can boot back up almost instantly.
I would like to thank all the developers for making a great opensource project. You have managed to add a ton of usefull (and/or amusing) features to my mp3 player, barely complicating the interface in the process!

AlexP:
Update on stop only works if you stop, not pause

Set the recent bookmarks option to "unique"

I don't know how the Sansa OF works.

kholto:
The sansa OF has the audiobook folder handling different from other folders, every subfolder in there which contains audiofiles has per-file bookmarks/resume which are reset when you reach the end of a file, it also remembers which file in that subfolder you listened to last.
So the result is that you can just select an audiobook (subfolder) and it will suggest the last played file, and it will not loose that position even if you listened to other audiobooks or music since last time.

It is definitively worth it to just shut the player off to stop audiobooks. A cheap cost of convenience when I get all the rockbox features in return  ;D

bluebrother:

--- Quote from: kholto on March 12, 2012, 05:24:49 PM ---It is definitively worth it to just shut the player off to stop audiobooks. A cheap cost of convenience when I get all the rockbox features in return  ;D

--- End quote ---

There's no need to shut down the player -- you just need to *stop* playback. See the manual on how to do this (no idea which player you have, on e200 this would be a short press on the Power button instead of using Play).

kholto:
I have the clip+, and I think it is the same. Will try that tomorrow.
Thanks for your help.

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