I love listening to DotNetRocks on my iPod while driving to work, but one thing has been bothering me for a long time: when you pause the show halfway and then either dock the iPod or listen to something else, you lose where you were. This means that in order to continue listening later, you need to manually fast-forward back there.
I just found out that for audio-books, iPods do keep a bookmark though, and any AAC file will be recognized as an audiobook if it has a .m4b file-extension (instead of the default .m4a). So to be able to bookmark your DotNetRocks shows, follow the following directions:
There's also a bug with remembering bookmarks for .m4b files too. If your iPod goes into 'deep sleep' mode (usually after about 2 days of non-use) and you were last listening to a .m4b file, it won't bookmark the current location and use the previous one. I used to write down the location of the book that I was listening too but I found a better workaround. If you listen to something else after stopping the .m4b file, it will bookmark where you left off. I just play some random song after listening and it's worked so far.
It took quite a bit of searching in the Apple iPod forums to find this out. If you search for "Audible bookmarks", you may find more information about this.
Posted by Paul Leclerc at September 12, 2004 10:11 AMCool iPod trick for long files
I happily break from my ongoing criticism of the Bush administration to draw attention to a cool iPod feature I just learned about. If you are listening to an audio book on your iPod and you pause and listen to...
.NET Rocks! now available in bookmarkable iPod format
.NET Rocks! now available in bookmarkable iPod format
.NET Rocks! now available in bookmarkable iPod format
Being a DNRer are you going to be putting that podcasting stuff in sharpreader somehow?
Posted by James Saull at November 17, 2004 11:12 AMHey Luke, what do you think of Mondays? http://mondays.pwop.com
Posted by Carl Franklin at November 25, 2004 12:21 PMMondays? second best podcast out there.
I also really like having .NET Rocks back to it's original format; the extra bits, while funny, were getting to be a bit much... now if only we could get the original co-host back and get rid of this weirdo that replaced him... ;-)
Hi Luke,
by the way let me thank you your great sharpreader again... best reader - and in use for 1,5 yrs already ( you got my donation... )
concerning your ipod bookmark issue, congratulations on this workaround, but let me note that this feature is a default feature on my iriver ihp 140 ... but using it as 40 GB backup media as normal USB2 harddisk was the main reason to get it instead of the Ipod I would have enjoyed more from it's style...
kind regards, Christoph
Posted by Christoph Cemper at December 4, 2004 6:22 PM