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Update Bookmarks on predetermined intervals?

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sportscrazed2:
I listen to a bunch of podcasts.  When a phone call or something happens i switch off my clip and pick up the phone.  Sometimes I forget to lock it again when starting it up.   Well needless to say when listening to a 3 hour podcast and you accidentally start the podcast again because you had it clipped to your shirt and you went to tie your shoe can get annoying.  Maybe there is a way to setup bookmarks to update on a user defined interval?  Say I want to listen to a podcast and have a bookmark updated every 5 minutes so that if I accidently start the podcast again I'm always within 5 minutes of where I left off?

silvertree:
There is a feature called "prevent track skipping" which might help.

sportscrazed2:
There is but then what about when I'm listening to music and want to skip tracks?   I would have to enable and disable it every time.   

nick_p:
I use shortcuts to load sparse settings files, depending what type of media I'm listing too.

http://download.rockbox.org/daily/manual/rockbox-sansaclipzip/rockbox-buildch5.html#x8-1010005.14

/.rockbox/shortcuts.txt

[shortcut]
name: Music Mode
type: file
data: /.rockbox/configs/music.cfg

[shortcut]
name: Spoken Mode
type: file
data: /.rockbox/configs/spoken.cfg

/.rockbox/configs/music.cfg

start directory: /music/
shuffle: on
repeat: off
cuesheet support: off
start in screen: wps
replaygain type: track shuffle
skip length: track
autocreate bookmarks: off
autoupdate bookmarks: off
autoload bookmarks: off
use most-recent-bookmarks: off
crossfade: shuffle

/.rockbox/configs/spoken.cfg

start directory: /spoken/
shuffle: off
repeat: all
cuesheet support: on
start in screen: bookmarks
replaygain type: track
skip length: 20s
autocreate bookmarks: recent only - on
autoupdate bookmarks: on
autoload bookmarks: on
use most-recent-bookmarks: on
crossfade: off

gevaerts:
One thing that's not been mentioned (and which I've had happen to me a few times) is that when the player crashes, you won't get a fresh bookmark either. There's *no* workaround for that currently, and regularly updating the bookmark automatically would also neatly fix this.

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