The 'Music' app no longer remembers the place when playing Audiobooks.

I have been downloading Audiobooks from Audible to iTunes for around 10 years. I always ensure that the settings include 'remember place' before uploading them to 'Music' on (currently) my iPhone 4.

In the last few weeks this seems to have stopped working.

I selected all of my Audiobooks and applied the 'remember place' flag to all of them and connected the iPhone again to sync it.

It worked! ... Once. Second time I stopped the player, when I went back to it, it returned to where it had started the previous time; 3 hours 41 minutes. Now, every time I stop the player it returns to 3:41.

I suspect that the cause is that the 'lock screen' shows the player with the book, and always stays at 3;41, even when playing. My feeling is that this overrides the players pointer, because the minute the phone is unlocked, back it goes to 3:41.

Does anyone have any ideas how to get round this?

Many thanks

Regards

Cleonw