Provide means of saving one's place in audio

[brianwc]

A user writes, "I'd like a way to store my current location in each audio file. I move from device to device and I lose track of where I left off in the audio. It would be nice if I could store that location in the cloud. (similar to the way YouTube does already)"

[jraller]

My initial reaction to that is about privacy. The starring of an item is an active choice by the user, but the monitoring and recording of audio playback would be by nature more background and automatic.

[mlissner]

It's an interesting idea. We're pretty far from being able to do this on the tech side:

• We don't track what users listen to or look at
• We don't have a way of keeping track of how much they've listened to
• We don't (even) have a way of bookmarking a location within an audio file (that I know of)

But against that backdrop of impossibility, I do think this sounds like a useful feature, especially since the tracks are so long.

I'd like to add a number of features to CL, such as recently viewed items and recent searches. This would fit in with that, and it'd be a good time to work out any privacy concerns.

[mlissner]

OK, a little research reveals that we can get the current location:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6377441/jplayer-2-0-elapsed-remaining-time

Or set the current location:

http://www.jplayer.org/latest/developer-guide/#jPlayer-playHead

So, that'd just need to send data back to the server with the location every 30s or something, and the server would be able to keep track. Doable, but still a long ways off.