Hi Lynn, The easiest way to do what you want is to download the "RestartAt" AppleScript from Tim Kilburn's VoiceOver Downloads page:
http://homepage.mac.com/kilburns/voiceover/downloads.html I'm going to shortcut my explanation and point you to the last detailed description I wrote of how to use this from the macvisionaries archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg09299.html (Re: finding playback position in ituens, was creating ringtones) Skip the first 3 paragraphs (which were about setting start and stop times for making ringtones), and start reading at paragraph 4, which begins, "An easier way to make these adjustments is to get a copy of the "RestartAt" AppleScript from Tim Kilburn's VoiceOver Downloads page…" The rest of the post describes how AppleScripts work, and how you can set this up. Basically, for any track that you start playing in iTunes (whether podcast, audiobook, music, movie, etc.), if you select the track, and then run "RestartAt" (which will appear as a menu option in an AppleScript menu on your iTunes menu bar once you download the AppleScript and put it in your Library/iTunes/Scripts folder), you'll be prompted for the time at which you want to start playing the track. If you carriage return, it will use your current position (which you'll also be informed of in the dialog window). HTH. Just make sure that you actually started the track playing and paused it before you run the script. There's a shortcut sequence that used to guarantee the track was selected, but with all the recent tweaks in iTunes behavior, I wouldn't want to try running down the sequence and checking the circumstances under which that works right now -- simpler to just tell you to make sure the track is "active". Cheers, Esther Lynn Schneider wrote: > Hi everyone. Is there a way to do a time jump in iTunes? I like to > put on a podcast to relax myself before I fall asleep, and many > times I will have listened to an hour or so of the podcast before > drifting off, so the next day, I want to skip ahead to a specific > time. I know about command-option-right and left arrows, but that > is very slow. I did see something while poking around in the > information menu that says start time and end time, but I can't > quite get that to work. Any assistance with this would be most > appreciated. > > Thanks in advance. > > Lynn Schneider > MSN Messenger canepri...@hotmail.com > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en > . > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
