Bookmarks for Audiobooks

I seem to remember previously about bookmarking for Audiobooks -
did anything come of this?

Cheers

Paul

bookmarking for Audiobooks - did anything come of this?

This came up a year ago (Oct 14, 1999 see here.)

Mike then answered In the future there will be a number of ways round this problem. Wait and see :-).

On the first empeg user group meeting in Amersfoort, yesterday, Rob and Roger did a sneak preview of features and demonstrated that 'bookmarks' are indeed being implemented. They may go into alpha testing soon, so in a couple of months Mike's 'wait and see :-) will be over, I'd say. There will be a number of (named) bookmarks that store previous playlists, that can be restored for playback from the position where they were left . . .



Henno
mk2 6 nr 6

Gah, that's the trouble with user group meetings -- it's not just Hugo that beats me to leaking new features these days!

Peter

it's not just Hugo that beats me to leaking new features these days!

You should have come too
(where were you anyway?)

Henno
mk2 6 nr 6

A slightly modified version of "bookmarks" would also be VERY useful in alleviating the "continuous mixes" problem: instead of dealing with the spaces between multiple tracks, the whole mix could be encoded as a single track (or combined into a single track) and "bookmark" indicators in the ID3v2 header could identify the track mark positions (and, presumably, associated track titles). This would also be a handy way of keeping an entire album as a single MP3 file.

On the other hand, there'd be no need for this if there were a way for the decoder to play tracks seamlessly.

-omf