From: Will Robertson <aliask_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:47:23 +1000

These features are not format dependent, so you can use these with any file
type.
On a slightly different note, if your audiobooks are DRM'ed in any way -
rockbox won't be able to play them. I'm not sure what .m4b is (rockbox has
.m4a support) - so I can't say for sure if they will work.

The setting for bookmarking on stop has thee options: "Off", "Ask" and
"Yes". Ask will ask you if you'd like to create a bookmark every time you
stop the playback of a file, yes will create a bookmark for the file when
you stop always, and no doesn't create any bookmarks.

Will

On 7/26/06, fatcat <fatcatbigshot_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> that's great news. some follow up questions
>
> as I understand on the ipod these features only work on .m4b files. m4b
> can be downloaded as audiobooks in itunes or one can allow these features on
> any m4a file by changing the extension to m4b
>
> in rockbox are these features dependent on m4b extension or do they work
> on m4a files? will they work on audiobooks in mp3 format?
>
>
> - it appears from the manual that bookmarking is done manually and no
> bookmark is ever placed automatically -- is that true?
>
> Lastly, are these features unique to the ipod port of rockbox or are they
> on all versions?
>
>
>
> >Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:38:50 +1000
> >From: "Will Robertson" <aliask_at_gmail.com>
> >Subject: Re: variable speed
> >To: Rockbox <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se>
> >Message-ID:
> ><ce0dbc4c0607251638v45064fa6qbfd7ca6d371aed72_at_mail.gmail.com>
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> >
> >Both of these features have been created in rockbox.
> >Variable speed is called "pitch adjustment" in rockbox - take a look in
> the
> >manual to see how it works.
> >The bookmarking feature is called just that - bookmarking. There are a
> few
> >settings you need to set first. You need to enable "bookmark on stop",
> and
> >so rockbox will create a bookmark for the file you are listening to so
> that
> >you can resume it where you left off by accessing the bookmark in the
> >"bookmarks" menu item.
> >
> >On 7/26/06, fatcat <fatcatbigshot_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> the ipod nano has audiobook features like automatic bookmarking and
> >> variable speed playback. These work on any file with an .m4b
> extension.
> >>
> >> Are these features available in rockbox or disabled because it is a
> >> different OS? When stopping in the middle of a file, does rockbox
> always
> >> begin playing at the beginning or is there a bookmark feature? Does
> rockbox
> >> have any variable speed feature so one can listen to an audiobook
> slightly
> >> faster or slower?
> >>
> >>
> >>
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