The fine free audio player AIMP has been released in version 5.

One big change is the location of the bookmarking, which is of course especially useful for audiobooks and a combo of desktop PC / wi-fi headphones combo.

AIMP has a new dedicated Bookmarks tab, but it is now very difficult to actually find how to bookmark. Also a little tricky to use at first. Here’s my guide…

1. Right-click in the waveform, at the point you want to bookmark. Add bookmark. This gives you the expected minutes/seconds bookmark. (You can also bookmark by right-clicking a file in the playlist as it is playing).

2. Double-clicking on the Bookmark starts the file at 0:00. Not good, and this may be confusing a lot of people. What you actually need to do is right-click and choose “Play selected files”, and then it starts at the timestamp you selected in the waveform. This might better be renamed ‘Play from Bookmark timestamp’ in future.

3. Right-clicking a set bookmark also lets you edit the timestamp to finesse it exactly.

You also need to flick the ‘repeat’ button off, when switching from repeating music to an audiobook in multiple files.

None of this is ideal, but I don’t know of any better bookmarking audiobook player for .MP3 files.