Confused about how the presets feature works

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First, to be clear, I do not play an instrument and am relatively clueless 
about how one would use presets. However, I did watch your video and I am still 
confused. But let me digress for a moment: I was looking for a good program to 
play my MP3 podcasts at 1.5 speed and yours is by far and away the best out 
there. I found your app by way of the Soundtouch library page list of 
applications that use that library. 

As I mentioned, I am totally clueless about how you have implemented presets. I 
have no clue what the icon is in the lower left and what it does. I would love 
to have you explain to me how I would do the following: lets say I am 10 
minutes into an hourlong podcast but am called to dinner by my wife. I want to 
save my spot so when I come back next time I can continue where I left off. How 
exactly can I create a preset to save that? I have been playing with this for 
20 minutes and cannot figure it out. Sorry for being so dense .. (and it is 2am 
so I have an excuse. I have been looking for the right MP3 player to supplant 
my media player of choice(PotPlayer) since its variable speed feature is OK but 
not great. Six hours later, I am ready to finally call it a night as I found 
your program and love it.

Anyway, to reiterate .. I think this is by far and away the best variable speed 
MP3 player out there. All I want is a program that loads quickly and can play 
my MP3 at a speed of my choosing. You go above and beyond with the equalizer .. 
but how do I save my position using the presets?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by kzinn...@gmail.com on 28 Dec 2011 at 7:05

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Hi,
Thank you for using Practice#.
Glad to see you like it.

As for saving presets - it is quite easy.
Suppose you at one point want to pause and come back later.
Please follow these steps:
1. Pause the play (click the pause button)
2. Click the Save Preset button (Blue Floppy Drive icon on bottom left)
At this point you should see all 4 preset buttons showing a red 'LED' above 
them.
Preset buttons are the big buttons to the left of the big bold digit (1, 2, 3 
or 4)
3. Click on one of the presets buttons
4. The preset button will blink on and off a few times, and then the system 
will open up a dialog box and will ask you for the preset name.
5. Enter some preset name (e.g. 'chapter 5') and click OK
6. The system will save that preset and change its LED color to Green

That's it! the preset is saved.
Now if you just came back from lunch and Practice# was still open, just click 
the play button and it will resume.
But, if you closed Practice# and came reopened it later, if you you want to go 
back to that same preset - just click on that preset button, and playback would 
resume at exactly the same settings (position, speed, equalizer, volume, pitch) 
as you were at the time of saving the preset.

Please note that if you save a preset on an existing one you will not get the 
dialog to enter the preset name.
But you can rename the preset easily by clicking the number label (e.g. 4) and 
then the dialog will pop.

I admit I designed it for Guitar Players - it is very similar with Boss effect 
modules. But surely you'll get used to it after a very short while.

Hope this helps,
Please let me know.

[This is not a defect]

Original comment by yuva...@gmail.com on 28 Dec 2011 at 12:59

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I realize that the problem is that I expected the blue floppy drive icon to 
be pressed AFTER you made a change to the presets. We are all used to 
changing THEN saving the change.

I will adapt.

Still, one question: What is the icon in the bottom left and what does it 
do?

(LOVING YOUR PROGRAM!)

Original comment by kzinn...@gmail.com on 29 Dec 2011 at 12:39

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Great, so it works for you now.
The bottom left button below the Save Preset button, is the Erase Preset button.
If you press it and hold it down for about a two seconds it will erase the 
current preset (i.e. reset it to factory setting). When the preset is erased 
the system will blink its LED rapidly.

Glad to see you love the application.
If you'd like to help other people enjoy as well, please publish it in FaceBook 
or Google+ etc.
Thank you!

Original comment by yuva...@gmail.com on 29 Dec 2011 at 12:51

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will do, thanks so much.

it really is that good,. I tried everything else and nothing compares for 
the purpose I and many others have  - a simple MP3 player that has good 
speed control. 

Original comment by kzinn...@gmail.com on 29 Dec 2011 at 12:56