iTunes 4.9 Will Bookmark Mp3s
Oh glorious days. As if Apple’s 4.9 update of iTunes wasn’t good enough already, it seems that they’ve slipped in one last goody. Bookmarkable Mp3 files. From what I can tell so far, if you’ve receieved your podcast via iTunes and its registered as a podcast in the special section, it will be bookmarkable. Just like an AAC .m4b file can be, now mp3 podcasts can be stopped on iTunes -> synced to your iPod -> and will pick up where you left off, and vice versa. The same goes for stopping and starting while listening within iTunes and iPod.
I’ve gotta say that certainly is the icing on the cake. Wowzers. Thanks, we’ve been begging for that.
How do you go about making non-podcast mp3 files bookmarkable?
Comment by MikeyC — June 29, 2005 @ 11:29 pm
Somehow iTunes gives the mp3s that you download as a podcast some sort of Podcast attribution which allows them to be bookmarked. Other than converting manually added mp3 to AAC and then making it bookmarkable I dont think there is any way to do it.
Comment by Jon — June 29, 2005 @ 11:34 pm
If somone figures out how to tell iTunes you want to bookmark a specific file that was not downloaded as a podcast, let us know. That would be a nice feature.
Comment by PhilRx300 — July 5, 2005 @ 2:07 pm
In a search some software called MarkAble (http://www.ipodsoft.com/index.php?/software/markable) is the only thing I’ve found so far that does the bookmarkable mp3s. If the mp3s are in the podcast section on iTunes 4.9 you don’t need this since it will do it for you through there. Too bad the latest iPod update is needed for this to work on late-model iPods. I guess my old school 2G iPod is out of luck. Oh well, I’ll just have to live with it until I’m forced to get a new iPod :)
Comment by dan — July 21, 2005 @ 1:10 am