Podcasts don't remember play position

My podcasts don't remember where I left off. If i'm thirty minutes into a podcast and close it, the playback position is lost. The next time I play the podcast it starts from the beginning.

I have this issue with iTunes on Windows. If I download the podcast before playback, it will sync my playback position. But if I start playback before downloading, it will start the podcast at 0:00 and will reset to this position any time I pause playback.

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Remembering app positions for single/dual monitor setups?

Sorry if this is in the wrong forum--I'm not sure if this is Mac OS or application specific.
I'm running Mac OS 10.5.6. When I plug in the external monitor to my MacBook Pro, I setup Firefox and Entourage on my notebook monitor and Photoshop on the external. I also move the Apple menu bar to the external (since PS is my main app I like having the menu bar close by). Photoshop doesn't present a problem because I'm able to switch the layout for different workspaces (laptop alone or laptop and external), but I find that Firefox and Entourage don't remember their positions.
For example, my current setup is dual monitors as mentioned above. When I get home and power up the notebook, I'll launch all the same apps. Firefox is just barely within view hanging off the left side of the screen so I'll grab the window and drag it over so I can access the green button (not sure what this is called). Entourage displays just fine. When I get back to work the next day and plug in the external, Firefox displays on the external with the window sized to fit the notebook monitor) and I'll just drag it over. Entourage loads into the external as maximized and I'll drag it over and click the green button.
Is it possible for the apps to remember their positions depending on whether it's just the notebook or if I've connected an external monitor? Thanks in advance!
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v6v6v6 wrote:
Sorry if this is in the wrong forum--I'm not sure if this is Mac OS or application specific.
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Guess it's in the right place now.
Unfortunately, I don't believe there's a way to do what you want.

To Apple: AppleTV Does NOT Remember Podcast Last Played Position

Unlike the iPod, I noticed that when I listened to part of a Podcast and returned to the main Menu. When I went back to the same Podcast later, it started from the beginning.
This particular Podcast DOES have as its preference remembering the position during play.
This is something for Version 1.1
Larry

I have the same problem. Video podcasts remember playback position. Audio podcasts do not. Major bug.

Podcasts app won't remember played episodes and automatically deletes played episodes.

I'm using an iPhone 4, iOS 6. I run a Mac and have set podcasts to keep 1 most recent episode. It simply will not honor this setting. Tried deleting/reloading Podcasts app won't remember played episodes. It will randomly decide all xx previous episodes are new and unplayed. Even after marking all as played it will show it as such and then an hour later revert. This is not shown on my home computer or on an ipad or what not just FYI. It automatically deletes played episodes. I'd like to keep the most recent episode of all the podcasts I subscribe to and only delete once the new one is downloaded. In case I want to refer back. It regularly deletes them, requiring me to redownload the episode and annihilating my data cap. It just won't actually sync or work correctly at all.
Any advice or help is very much appreciated. I hate to vent; it is just exasperating.
PS: I understand many people like third party providers and you'd think I'd have done that given how much I listen to podcasts but this ought to work and work like Amazon's whispersync. Whoever is in charge of this is a bozo that's blowing it and I hope they are aware of it.

I am also having problems with 100s of played podcasts being listed. Like others, if I delete a podcast, it reappears as unplayed the next time I open podcast app in a WiFi zone. In the meantime, the app stops working while it tries to handle all the new info. Finally for some podcasts, it plays and old episode when I select the most recent. I keep selecting "Mark all as played" only to see 100s show up a few hours later. I would prefer played episodes not to be listed in menu at all!
I listen to podcasts on the subway without any ability to stream and prefer to access only from my phone and not have to fuss with computer.
I have read that if you delete the app to go back to using Music app, you can no longer download new podcasts but must do in iTunes. Is there any fix or workaround?

My e-mail has changed, but I purchashed some songs in iTunes using my old e-mail address as my account name... so when I try to play the sonngs I bought and paid for - it keeps asking me to authorize my PC first, but I don't remember the password!

My e-mail has changed, but I purchashed some songs in iTunes using my old e-mail address as my account name... so when I try to play the sonngs I bought and paid for - it keeps asking me to authorize my PC first, but I don't remember the password! And since the old e-mail address is no longer active, I can't even chenge the password- becasue it's sends the link to do so via e-mail! Even when I use the "ask personal questions" option to verify and it asks me for my date of birth, I put it in and it still won't acccept.

Hello there, loupar.
The following Knowledge Base article offers up just how to change your Apple ID for the App Store on your iOS device:
iOS: Sign in with a different Apple ID in the iTunes Store, App Store, and iBooks Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1311
Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
Pedro.

Bought an iPod nano for use in an external source to the unit of the BMW. It works, but don't remember the place when you turn off the power and every time begins to play the playlist first.

Bought an iPod nano for use in an external source to the unit of the BMW. It works, but don't remember the place when you turn off the power and every time begins to play the playlist first.

Thanks iPod Whisperer--
I do realize that the nano will resume where I left off in my audiobook if I reload the file that was last playing.
What I was hoping is that the 6g nano would work like my previous iPods and default to the last file played the next time played after Iused sleep mode instead of going to some random song on the iPod.
Since I usually have a lot of audiobooks on my iPod--and most of those have 10-15 files in them, it's a pain to have to navigate to the correct file (and try to remember which of the 10-15 files I was last playing). On all my other iPods I could simply hit play and it would start up in the audiobook right where it left off.
Note--this only happens if I use the sleep timer to turn off the iPod. If I pause the book myself, when I turn the iPod back on it'll "remember" what file it was playing.
Hope this makes sense.
dordale

Podcast not remembering playback position. HELP!!!

My podcasts start over at the beginning everytime I exit the podcast and go back into it. The "Remember Playback Position" is checked and it starts at the beginning regardless of whether I sync it or not. Please help. I've looked into every aspect of this and can't find any resolve.

Never mind, figured it out. You have to select all the files, cannot change it per individual file.

I just changed the hard drive on my computer and my music and videos that I got from my friend will not play because I don't remember his password. Any solutions????

I just changed the hard drive on my computer and my music and videos that I got from my friend will not play because I don't remember his password. Any solutions????

If you are talking about your friend's iTunes password, you are not supposed to use or have his password or even his music,etc. in your computer...

Since upgrading to IOS 6.0 then 6.0.1 audiobooks don't remember position

Since I upgraded to IOS 6.0 (and recently 6.0.1) on my iPhone 4s my audiobooks no longer remember their position properly.
If I pause the book and use some other apps the position is remembered, but if I leave the book paused long enough and use enough other apps the posiiton in my audio book is lost. It forgets the track and the position in the track. Most of my books are in MP3 format ripped from books on CD, I haven't tested any of my Audible books yet.
This is VERY annoying. Plus with the difficulty of navigiating those books that are just a few multi-hour files to a percise spot it becomes a huge pain in the butt. The worst case is I have say a 10 hour file and get it to within 15 minutes with the slider control and can't get any closer with percision so have to hit the Advance 15 sec button around 60 times. Grrrr. (P.S. I do know how to use my vetical finger position to control the slider sensitivity but for huge book files it still doesn't let me get to an exact spot).
Please can someone help? Or Apple can you fix it.
I've tried rebooting and re-downloading several different books.

what exactly is going on with the keyboard.
you can try doing a reset, hold down the home/power button until you see the apple logo and then relesae, then wait for the phone to boot back up.

Audiobooks don't remember position on my iPhone

It's nice that Apple has a box for "Remember Last Position" for tracks. Why anyone would want that for a three-minute song, I dunno. And why that option DOESN'T work for hours-long audiobook files is all the more frustrating.
For my iPod Classic, an audiobook's position is remembered properly. But my iPhone used to do this properly and now doesn't, ever since the upgrade to 3.0.
I'm getting fed up with this completely nonsensical glitch. Is anyone else experiencing this?
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I got the same problem weeks ago, but solved lately. But this method cannot apply to a single audiobook file (the selection box just dim), only work with group selection, here's how.
Select the audiobook files with shift or command, choose "Get info". Now go to the "Options" and select "Media kind" to Audiobook and "Remember position" to Yes. It should working now.
This function purpose to be automatic in iphone.... anyway this's how computer works.

Files that "remember playback position" are not updating during sync

I listen to long spoken word MP3 files that are not podcasts. I have the "remember playback position" option checked on these files. I will add it to my library, sync it to my 2nd gen iPod shuffle, then go play it. The shuffle will remember the playback position fine. When I plug it into the computer again, iTunes used to update the files on my computer with the new playback position from the shuffle. This is not the case anymore. The local files will stay at the spot where they were at the original sync (0:00 in most cases). The files on the shuffle will then go back to 0:00 as well. This is very annoying. Any ideas?
P.S. I'm using the newest Shuffle that was released along with the 4th gen Nano (mine is the 2GB blue).
I know this is supposed to work because I had a silver 1GB shuffle in 2007 that worked fine.
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ROFL I've named this thread "Shuffle Woes" in my favorites list. I seem to have fixed this strange and VERY elusive problem for now.
I discovered a duplicate music file that had the same metadata as another music file. The only difference between the two files was the name of the physical file on the hard disk AKA the file name. The metadata (tags) were exactly the same. Now that I've deleted one of the two files everything seems to magically work again. Don't ask me!
If the problem resurfaces again I'll be back. No more shuffle woes!

Played Podcasts, return as not played

Hello
My iPod Touch has an annoying problem, I listen to podcast(s) they show up on the iPod as being watched. I turn it off (press and hold the on/off button).
Turn it back on a later and the podcasts I have just watched / listened too are no marked as not been played, this is rather irritating feature of my iPod Touch and was wonder if any experience similar.
Its not only just turning it off, that cases this if I sync to my computer it often does not mark Podcasts as being played thus, and will not delete them, and re-sync from iTunes so they reappear as not being played.
I can end up listening to all my podcasts, then switching off or docking hoping it will erase the old Podcasts and sync a bunch of new unplayed podcasts that have ben download, but to my dismay it does download new podcasts but marks the played ones as unplayed.
I have resulting in manually managing my Podcasts as iTunes ans iPod seem incapiable of managing it themselves.
I am running the latest iPod update 1.1.4, I've restore to default settings and no joy.
Any in a simiar boat?

I am having this annoying problem also. I listen and some show as played others not. It seems to be especially bad if I turn off the iPod after listening. I have a long list of podcasts, and try to eliminate those I have listened to before syncing, which I do periodically. Has anyone found a solution or do I just have to remember the date and title of all podcasts I listen to when syncing. Having to create a playlist to continuously listen is also an annoyance, my iPod classic 40 did not have either of these problems, just a short charge battery. I don't watch movies on mine so I don't think that is the sole cause. I hope there have been some ideas on this since the original post was in March.Thanks

Audiobooks not remembering last position

I've seen this problem for years in the forums and have never submitted a comment thinking this would be resolved, but at this point I'm so frustrated, might as well resubmit this issue.
I listen to lots of audiobooks on my iPhone. Sometimes while listening to an audiobook, maybe I want to press the pause button in order to do something like talk to my wife for a couple minutes. When I press pause again, to resume my audiobook, the position is no longer in the same place, it may be an hour or so back from where I originally started. Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not. I'd say it's about 30/70 that is works. Now I don't listen to more than one audiobook at a time (or music), so I'm never swtiching between books, I'm just clicking pause.
Yes, I've verified in iTunes -> Get Info -> Options that the Remember Position = Yes
Yes, I've read another post that says, if I want to pause, I should press pause, then start another audiobook and let it play for 5 seconds, then it will remember the first pause.
As a software developer myself, it seems very simple to remember a position when clicking a pause button. Apple, can you please fix this bug which has existed in your system for several years.
FYI, I'm using the iPhone 4 on the latest iOS (6.1.3).
Please, please, please fix this.
Todd

I wish it would just work but I found something.
I found it was happening when I downloaded directly to my phone. I now sync with itunes and delete book from iphone. then move it back to my phone and it works. Ugly but works for me.

ITunes and auto remember playback position

How to make iTunes automatically add new tracks to the "remember playback position" ?

Hi emcea
In iTunes list , select the song you want to set, Ctrl-click on it, > Get Info, > Select the "Options" tab, and there set the time to begin or to stop playing (don't forget to check related cases-You also have possibility to check the case related to playing position
HTH
Francis

ITunes 5: What is Remember playback position?

ITunes 5 has a new option in the Get Info/Options Tab
"Remember Playback Position". Does anyone know what this is for?
I suspect that it may have something to do with the default playback start position, but I'm not sure.
If i don't want the song to start from the beginning (e.g. long intro) I normally set the 'Start Time' in the same options tab. I'm wondering if this is another way to achieve this.
TIA

When you want the music to start at some position, drag the time indicator (or what it is called) to the position where it should start.
Then check "Remember"
Everytime you play that sound it starts at the position indicated. On the left you see the played time.
Perhaps it is a different way to accomplish the same.
Just give it a try and see if it has any use for you.

Podcasts don't remember play position

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