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Find partially-played bookmarkable tracks in iTunes Apps
I hate that when an iPod reboots, it forgets which track was playing before the reboot. And I doubly hate that syncing an iPod sometimes causes it to reboot. I listen to a lot of recorded radio broadcasts and podcasts on my iPod, and many of these are in bookmarkable AAC format (this should also work for the new bookmarkable MP3s that iTunes 5 supports -- no promises though!). I hate to be half-way through five or six different hour-long tracks, as it's hard to find what I was listening to before quickly.

So I quickly hacked together this AppleScript. It sifts through every bookmarkable track in your iTunes library, and adds any track that has been started, but not finished, to a pre-existing "Partially Played" playlist. It ain't pretty, but with a few smart playlists around it and scheduled on my crontab, it means that I have a new playlist of things that I'm not done listening to when I grab my iPod every morning.

[robg adds: I haven't tested this one.]
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Overkill?
Authored by: ever on Sep 23, '05 08:13:57PM

That's a neat solution, but it feels a bit like overkill. Typically if you haven't completed listening to a track (bookmarkable or otherwise) the play count stays at zero. So I think for most people it would be simpler to create a smart playlist that lists all audiobooks and podcasts whose play count is zero.



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Find partially-played bookmarkable tracks in iTunes
Authored by: sjk on Sep 23, '05 08:25:19PM

Hmm, weren't there more replies to this hint here earlier? Maybe they got lost or misplaced during the server upgrade?



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Find partially-played bookmarkable tracks in iTunes
Authored by: DocMan on Sep 26, '05 07:05:38AM

So, now that you've got a playlist full of partially played, bookmarkable tracks, how do you use the bookmarks?

Doc



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