Hi Holly,

>I have a question about Something similar to this as well.  Is there a  
>way to jump to a specific time in itunes?  

I don't think there's an accessible way to jump to a specific
time in iTunes, but this is something that should be easy to
do with an AppleScript.  The "Reset Bookmarks", "Replay
Last Bit", "Skip Ahead n Seconds", and other AppleScripts
(including some for speeding up playback by going to
QuickTime, like "Play This Song at 1.5x" from Mac OSX Hints
discussed in a thread about podcast subscriptions at the
end of November)  all work by setting the time in the playing
application.  
 
>I know there's the checkbox  
>in get info dialog but it didn't seem to work when I tried it with  
>audible.com books.  But I'd already started playing the file so I  
>think that had something to do with it. 

The checkboxes for start  and stop time on the "Options" pane
when you do "Get Info" on a selected track set the start and
stop point limits for listening, or burning/conversion.  They're
not meant  for adjusting current playing position.  You could
use them as a hack with the "Reset Bookmarks" AppleScript.
Even though the start time of "Reset Bookmarks" is set to 0,
the checkbox for start time on the options pane will start play
at whatever value you've entered under the "start" time, but
you'd have to uncheck these boxes afterwards or your playing,
burning, and conversions would always stop and start at 
these points.  

You can think of the checkbox start and stop points as limits
when you navigate -- you won't see the effect on play in the
middle of the file.  If you change the start position to a time
beyond your current playing position (and bookmarking is
on, either because you are listening to an Audible or iTunes
audiobook, or a podcast subscribed through iTunes, or 
because you have checked the "Remember Playback 
Position" box when you did "Get Info" on the track), your 
playback continues from the present point as if no changes
had been made.  Similarly, moving the end point to an
earlier position than your current playing point has no effect.

However, when you try to fast forward or backwards in iTunes
using the Command-Option-Right (or Left) Arrow keys, or
move through by chapter markers with the 
Command-Shift-Right (or Left) Arrow keys you'll see the
start and stop limits.  For Audible or iTunes audiobooks
navigating by chapter markers combined with fast forward
or fast backward shortcut keys probably works best.

Just a warning: on older Audible books the chapter markers
aren't really placed where there are chapters -- they occur
where the old cassette tapes used to end.  Recent Audible
audiobooks and their counterparts on the iTunes Store that
are encoded from CDs have chapter markers that really are
set to chapter break points.

All of the AppleScripts mentioned above (except the ones
that play through QuickTime) work for Audible files as well
as other types of files (mp3, aac, etc.) played through 
iTunes.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Esther

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