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Notes on the 1.68 "Play Music" direct-jump feature
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Subject: Notes on the 1.68 "Play Music" direct-jump feature
Quote by Dixie Flatline:
OK, since a lot of people (including myself) are a bit confused by the details of the new 1.68 feature that lets you jump back to your previous location in "Play Music", here's what I've discovered so far.

1) In the places where you can use the feature, you can invoke it by pressing and holding any of the following: the Menu button, the RioStick, or the wheel.

2) There are two separate "bookmarks" used by this feature. One remembers the last place you were in "Play Music", and the other one remembers the last place you were when you appended or inserted music from the "Now Playing" menu.

3) To get back to the last place you were in "Play Music", press the Menu button to go the main menu. Then, with the highlight on "Play Music" (the default), press and hold any of the three buttons. You'll wind up at the last menu inside "Play Music" where you selected a track or set of tracks to play.

4) To get back to the last place you inserted/appended from, go to the "Now Playing" menu. (I.e., go to the current tracklist by pressing in once on the RioStick, then click the wheel once.) With the highlight on "Play" (the default), press and hold any of the three buttons. This will take you back to the last place inside "Insert" or "Append" where you selected tracks to insert/append, and you'll be in the same mode (Insert or Append) that you were before.

5) There are some oddities regarding the "Now Playing" bookmark. The main thing is that it seems to be lost if you power off the player, whereas the "Play Music" bookmark is saved across power-cycles. As a corollary to this, if you haven't inserted or appended since the last power cycle, and you go to "Now Playing" and hold a button, nothing at all will happen. If you do a normal insert/append, then the bookmark will be re-created and you can go back to it the same way as before.

If peter or the other Rio guys read this, please correct me if I'm wrong on how any of this works. Also, I'm making a wild guess that both of the "bookmarks" were supposed to be saved with the rest of the system state on power-off, and it's a bug in 1.68 that the "Now Playing" bookmark isn't saved...

Hope this helps people, and thanks again to the Rio team for this feature!

...because I am not a Special Snowflake.
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Nice save, cfrawg! Thx.
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I knew about the Now Playing one but not the play music one.  There's apparently a way to do it holding fast forward on the stick, but the timing is tricky and I just ended up playing whatever the menu was supposed to go to.
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