"highlight track once played" is this currently possible ?

[spiug31]

Hello all,
I listen to a lot of podcasts and would find it very useful to have a "highlight track once played" option in the Playback or File View menus' . My intention is that there would be an easy way for me to see which episodes I've already listened to. It would require an entry "highlight track once played" in the relevant menu and then a selector for choosing between actions - "off", "on" and "unhighlight tracks".

Does a solution already exists for this ?
What method do you use ?



I have a very short term and somewhat whimsical memory so remembering to write down which episodes I've heard is a very hit and miss occurence.


I'm using an H120 iRiver.

[Mikerman]

What you may want to do in the meanwhile is, store the new files in a "new" subfolder, and move them once listened to.

[spiug31]

This isn't easily feasible since I'm new to listening to podcasts so have a very large collection of "new" tracks to listen to. I only connect my H120 to the pc every three or four days if new podcasts build up and by then I have forgotten which files I have and haven't listened to   

[Llorean]

You could delete them from the player after playing.

[spiug31]

I didn't realise this was possible, any directions to where this can be found would be greatly appreciated.

[Llorean]

Well, the first place you should look is always the Rockbox manual.

[spiug31]

found it 

I've never pushed in the navigation toggle before, now it seems sure to become a much used feature. I don't read easily so had skipped the manual until now (rockbox and the H120 is generally very intuiive) 

Thankyou for your help

[Rincewind]

you could use tagcache with runtimedb enabled.
new episodes appear under "never played".

But this only works if you have listened to every file on your player at least once, otherwise you have almost everything under "never played".

you could create a dedicated filter to only show your podcast files under "never played tracks" but you have to change your tagnavi.config for this and I don't know if the runtimedb fields are available there already.

[Mikerman]

This isn't easily feasible since I'm new to listening to podcasts so have a very large collection of "new" tracks to listen to. I only connect my H120 to the pc every three or four days if new podcasts build up and by then I have forgotten which files I have and haven't listened to   

In addition to deleting the tunes after listening to them, you also can rename them on your player, e.g. to trash after listening.

[spiug31]

I've added some "heard" or "last heard" folders within each of my main podcast directories and am simply cutting and pasting the episodes I've listend to into these folders.
I connected my player to the PC in order to simply organise the backlog of listened to tracks and set up the folders so from here on I should have a quite low maintenance jukebox with the PC only coming into play when downloading patches and tracks

It was finding the menu through holding in the Nav stick that has made all the differance. 

[Llorean]

This is why reading the manual is a good thing to do.