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
