Seth
Oct 28th, 2005, 07:45 PM
I've noticed something with itunes that has been helpful and somewhat frustrating at the same time. In the "Get Info" section under the "options" tab, itunes 6 features a check box option for you to remember your playback position, which in essence gives you the ability to bookmark your audio files. GREAT! I've noticed that both the "Remember playback position" and "Skip when shuffling" option are both toggled whenever you download a podcast from iTunes. However, when you add any old mp3 file into your itunes library, these boxes are not checked at all and you have to go in and do it manually.
Ok so fair enough, just check the boxes if you want that option right? Well I did that, and then rearranged my library, accidently deleting a file that I had checked and assuming that the options I had set on that mp3 file would remain when I added that particular mp3 to my library again. NADA. I had to RECHECK "remember playback" for the file every time I deleted it from my library and added it back.
Here's the weird thing: every podcast I download via itunes automatically checks the "remember playback" and "skip shuffling" option. When I upload my podcast mp3s, I haven't been checking the boxes but when the file goes through itunes and comes back to me, they they are: checked and bookmarked for your pleasure. I even deleted a podcast to see if I had to check the option again when I added it back to my library and the files were still checked for me. Am I missing something? I thought if you toggled the options for a particular file, like say when you assign an image, that it STAYED that way unless someone decided they didn't want that feature.
Why are podcasts automatically bookmarked in itunes and other spoken word audio files not? I want to make other spoken word audio besides podcasts available on my website and I'd love it if I could make it so the file itself had the "remember playback" option bundled in with it. I don't want people to have to check those options everytime they play my non-podcast files.
If something here doesn't make sense, accept my apologies. When it comes to this sort of problem, I wish I could just show my problem as opposed to describing it. Thanks in any event.
Ok so fair enough, just check the boxes if you want that option right? Well I did that, and then rearranged my library, accidently deleting a file that I had checked and assuming that the options I had set on that mp3 file would remain when I added that particular mp3 to my library again. NADA. I had to RECHECK "remember playback" for the file every time I deleted it from my library and added it back.
Here's the weird thing: every podcast I download via itunes automatically checks the "remember playback" and "skip shuffling" option. When I upload my podcast mp3s, I haven't been checking the boxes but when the file goes through itunes and comes back to me, they they are: checked and bookmarked for your pleasure. I even deleted a podcast to see if I had to check the option again when I added it back to my library and the files were still checked for me. Am I missing something? I thought if you toggled the options for a particular file, like say when you assign an image, that it STAYED that way unless someone decided they didn't want that feature.
Why are podcasts automatically bookmarked in itunes and other spoken word audio files not? I want to make other spoken word audio besides podcasts available on my website and I'd love it if I could make it so the file itself had the "remember playback" option bundled in with it. I don't want people to have to check those options everytime they play my non-podcast files.
If something here doesn't make sense, accept my apologies. When it comes to this sort of problem, I wish I could just show my problem as opposed to describing it. Thanks in any event.