If it's this particular player it does appear to save the play point and have a play history. I've also had people recommend Mort Audiobook Player, but I haven't tried that one. Set it to stop playing automatically if the phone hasn't been jiggled in 15 minutes after 10pm, and if it does time out it skips back 15 minutes so I won't miss anything. Also the sleep timer has saved my bacon a few times when I was listening just before bed. One feature I love is that it records the playback history, so if I accidently start playing it while my headphones are in my pocket or whatever I can just look at the history and go back to the place it was at before.
I know that iTunes does on the Apple side, and on Android I've used Smart Audiobook Player in the past and Listen Audiobook player currently. What music app are you using? Most every one I've used in the last 10 years has had the ability to remember position. So I usually join all the tracks together as one long track and then rip it, so I end up with 1 track per CD.Īnd because piracy is bad I'll then free the space back up when I'm done listening before returning the book to the library. Audio CD's do too, but I don't like that as much because you have to go in and name them all, and that's a pain. MP3 cd's usually have a lot of short tracks. I can type it up if that's something that sounds interesting.ĭoes your local library have audiobooks? a lot of them do either as audio cd's or MP3 cd's. It's a process, but I've worked out a system that works well for me. So it is a bit of work, but I've had to split long audiobooks up using Audacity before. I just congregate all my audiobooks and almost exclusively use Smart AudioBook Player. Pretty much everything Audible can do, but it works with audiobooks from any source, including Audible if you download it to your device. 05 faster, and 1.3x is sometimes too fast), make bookmarks, set sleep timer.
You can fine-tune playback speed like on Audible (though only in tenths, not twentieths like Audible, and my normal setting there is 1.2x since you can't make it the. On Android, Smart AudioBook Player is the best third-party app for listening to audiobooks. I think the standard should be raised 20% since I have to go to almost every book to increase the narration speed to 20, 25, or 30% faster, depending on the narrator.Īnyway, I answered your survey at 1.25 speed since that's the closest average for my listening. I think audiobook narrators have a standard to try to reach an average words per minute so the average person can listen and comprehend what they're saying. There are very few books have I listened to which required more (none) or less (one or two) than that standard range. Most books need to be listened to at 20-30% increase in speed.
Paid for the full version years ago and use it daily.ĥ: Nest & iComfort - To control my AC units from my couch :) The dev releases new games on a pretty regular basis.
Including Smart Audiobook Player, my "must have" apps that I always install on a new device areĢ: Solitaire Megapack - Has a ton of fun games and features. If you haven't tried it out yet and like listening to local file audio books, you won't be disappointed IMO. I tried it out, it fixed the issue and 2 or 3 days later, he pushed the fix to the app store.
I emailed the dev and not even 30 mins later he emailed me a beta apk and asked me to test and report back. When I tried out Android O DP4, this app kept reopening even after force closing it.
Over the years of using the app I have emailed him a handful of times for issues, feature request or bugs which are usually due to new OS beta's from Google. The dev is very active and responsive as well. I listen to a lot of audio books and from my time trying different apps, this is hands down the best audio book player app based on ease of use, features, design, etc. I do not personally know of anyone else that used it before I told them about it but then again their Play Store details show "Installs 1,000,000 - 5,000,000" which is by no means an unknown app.