Audiobooks losing their saved spots! Help!

one option is to have the 'remember playback position' option checked. to do it, click on one or more files, then click "file -> get info" in the menu bar. next, go to the 'options' tab, and check the 'remember playback position' checkbox.

It's a bug.

Audiobooks, videos, and podcasts lose their bookmarks and go back to the beginning of the file every time you connect to iTunes and either sync or add or delete files manually.

And all the "save my place" preference boxes are checked already.

this doesn't happen to me. iTunes syncs my place in the video, and next time i play it, it resumes from where i left off.

i have not tested this with podcasts, so i'm not sure about that, and i don't have any audiobooks on there to test it with.

Most definitely a bug! In addition the "blue dot" that disappears when the podcast is viewed or listened to re appears when you manually add to the podcast list.

Works fine here, for audiobooks and podcasts.

Have you tried a restore?

Did 1) Backup 2) installed 3.0 as new 3) restored . Same result. BTW the restore does NOT restore content. Has to be synced or in my case manually loaded to the iphone (Music, photos and podcasts). Shall I do the backup, install and restore again?

try the steps here:
http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/troubleshooting/phone/

Actually restored as NEW. Manually loaded 3 podcasts, watched two. Loaded one more and all podcasts reset as not watched. From my point of view, most definitely a BUG!

I am experiencing the exact same problem with my iPhone 3G, since updating to 3.0. Each time a podcast or audiobook file is added or removed, the next time I open Ipod I get the message "Updating library", which seems to reset playback information on all other podcast or audiobook files. Let me stress the fact that this behavior was not present prior to updating to the 3.0 OS.

Count me among those who are absolutely convinced that this a 3.0 related bug, and it's really **ing me off.

I am currenty syncing my iPhone on a PC running Windows 7, as I was doing with the previous iPhone OS.

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Definitely a bug. I've taken to writing down where I'm at in an audiobook prior to connecting to my computer in any way. Doesn't always happen when connecting but always does when I sync.

I'm at about the 16 hour mark in an unabridged version of Atlas Shrugged and have another 45 hours to go. Read it in college but that was 30 years ago now. Never dreamed then that I'd be listening to it on a pocket computer/telephone. I mean where would the punch cards go?

Maybe they'll fix this bug before I'm done with the book.

I am having the exact same problem now that I've installed iPhone 3.0 software.

Very irritating.

MOST definitely a bug introduced in 3.0 software update. Apple, please fix this!

I have the same problem and so does my wife. It is quite annoying. I've tipple checked all settings and everything is set correctly. It worked fine before 3.0, but since.... bye bye last position.

I have many friends with iPhones and the problem seems to only affect some of them.

I too have taken to writing down the chapter and remaining minutes before I sync for each book I'm listening to.

It also is wiping the watched/not watched flag on videos as well.

Had I know this was the price for cut-n-paste and universal search I'd have opted out. 😟

Oh my god! It's so annoying. I have a first generation iPhone and have been watching TV and listening to Podcasts and audiobooks on it for two years - and ever since I installed the 3.0 software, it can't seem to remember **** - even in-between syncs. For example, I'll listen to an audiobook on my way to the gym, and then watch a TV show and a half at the gym, and when I go back to my audiobook on my way home, my spot in my audiobook is no longer saved!

I'm contributing to this thread more so Apple has more feedback on this bug than anything else, but solidarity doesn't hurt either!

This has gotten bad now. When I Iisten to an audiobook or podcast and then turn on my Bluetooth headset (while listening) it just resets to the beginning by itself! Horrible nasty BUG! Apple please fix this. Podcasts have become unlistenable...


iPhone 3gs with 3.0 (obviously)