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mp3 hack to remember where i left off (like audiobooks)

tonywalker23

tonywalker23

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with audiobooks you can listen for a while, listen to something else, and when you go back to the audiobook it remembers where you left off. does anyone know if there is any way to do that with my own files? i have mp3' that are about 1-2 hours long and i want to listen to them like i do audiobooks.

thanks
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Audible developed a proprietary technology to remember where you left off, but it's just part of their files and it's DRM and whatnot. There is no way to do this, but if you remember about where you left off, you can just go back to it. Even when using an Audible file I know that I generally would scroll back a bit anyway to refresh my memory of where I left off.
 
Hmm, I remember reading about such a hack somewhere, some time ago. I think it was possible to rename an AAC file from m4a to m4b, to get a bookmark effect or something like that. I don’t think it’s possible with mp3, though. Maybe you try it out, and unless it works, do a Google search with m4b, perhaps you can find something.
 
it works,
when you change an aac to bookmarkable the 'kind' column in itunes says that it is now a protected aac, but it remembers where i left off, just what i was looking for
 
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