This means you can just click on the App and it will run, setting the Remember Position to ‘yes’ in all of the specified playlists. If you’re not running it automatically then you can just save the workflow there, selecting ‘Application’ in File Format. So it should look like this (click for full size): Then drag in under the first box ‘Set Options of iTunes Songs’ and click on Remember Playback Position and set the dropdown to ‘Yes’. It’s easy to do with a SmartPlaylist, I recommend it – and it’s far easier to change or edit playlists that fiddle about with Automator every time you add a new podcast or new type of media! Explore the drop downs – it can match many playlists by a complete name, or beginning/part of a name, or exceptions (not that name). Obviously if you have all your tracks tagged or named in a certain way then you could use those to find tracks, but I use playlists. You can select from the Find dropdown either tracks, playlists or sources. You then want to select/find ‘Find iTunes Items’ and drag it into the workflow. If you want to run this automatically, then choose ‘Folder Action’, otherwise click on ‘Workflow’ – don’t worry it’s easy to (re)create both.
Open up Automator and you have your first decision at the ‘type of document screen’. Note I’m doing this on Yosemite, so I can’t check if earlier versions are exactly the same – should be as I’ve been using Automator since Snow Leopard. This is done with Automator which comes free with OSX since 10.4. So I’ve worked out a free way for Mac users to mark their shows automatically or on a single click, for ALL filetypes without having to convert them to Audiobooks. There was another script to change your files to m4b (audio books) but obviously won’t work for non-AAC files, and as his scripts tend to be really buggy I’d rather not. There was a Doug’s script to do this but not automatically, and it doesn’t seem to work anymore. Same with radio shows from get_iplayer or downloaded mixes or podcasts. If you download your podcasts via the inbuilt iTunes Podcast receiver then you’re fine, that (book)marks the shows automatically, but if you use say, gPodder or another podcatcher then bring them in or download them manually, that won’t happen. Something that’s bugged me for years is the fact I download a lot of podcasts, radio shows and long mixes, but was having to set ‘Remember Playback Position’ formerly known as Bookmarks manually for most of them.
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