Bookmark AAC files like .AA on iTunes and iPod

By Kalomir. Original by Lionel - 30/03/2004 23:41:58 CEST - Category: Sound

Thx to Julien as we'd forgotten to talk about it

Though the info is from the beginning of March I didn't see any (French) comments on it.
AAC files may be "bookmarked", like Audible files, thus enabling one to resume reading where they stopped, even if it was a week before, on multipe different files! This is naturally the best way for big audio books, or even live improvisations, interviews or DJ mixes.
File type must be turned from "M4A " to "M4B ", with space. (This is not the extension, but the four letter type which comes from preceding OS versions). This will work as well with M4A and with M4P, ie iTunes music store files.
A well known Doug Adams script will do it for you:
http://www.malcolmadams.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=makebookmarkable
This has been published by Apple themselves, who put an article online in their KnowledgeBase, then put it away some days afterward.
This is probably related to the fact they tell programmers not to use the Types/Creators functions, though great they may be, they're still not compatible with Linux/Windows...) Though we all know one of the infos only in the file name it is not that convenient.