1. A media player An apparatus, comprising: a music player for playback of music selections , where the music selections are stored on a storage medium; where the storage medium further stores identifiers associated with the music selections on the storage medium; where the identifiers comprise file descriptors that exclude a sample of the music selection identified by the identifier; a processor that controls a portion of operation of the music player; a user interface that receives commands from a user and sends those commands as signals to the processor; a memory coupled to the processor; and wherein, upon receipt of a mark command from the user interface as a result of a command from the user , the processor stores an the identifier associated with the music selection in the memory that identifies a music selection that is playing at the time of receipt of the mark command.