Recovering playback state of multiple playlists and over multiple sessions

[Yuchen Pei]

Hello,

I often have several long playlists of spoken words, mostly 
conference talks and lectures, and I wonder how I can resume where 
I left from last time.  I have them all saved in native playlist 
files, and load them manually when I start an emacs session.

There are two problems:

1. Say I have two playlists A and B, A is at track 42 at 23:00 and 
B is at track 73 at 87:32.  I just paused track 42 of A and would 
like to resume track 73 of B.  How do I do that?  If I navigate to 
B and press RET (emms-playlist-mode-play-smart) or invoke 
(emms-playlist-mode-play-current-track), track 73 will start from 
the beginning, rather than 87:32.  If I navigate to B and press P, 
track 42 of A will resume.  I also tried switching to playlist B 
at the metaplaylist first, but that did not seem to help either.

2. Say I have one playlist A at track 42 at 23:00.  How do I save 
it, close emacs and resume at track 42 at 23:00 next time I open 
emacs and load the playlist?  I tried saving the playlist as a 
native playlist, but when I load it starts from track 1 again.

Thanks.

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Best,
Yuchen

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