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Thanks. Also how do you get books onto your phone for Smart Audiobook Player in the first place?
Samba.
Does SAP integrate with samba or do you have to download files manually?
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Do you have any other favorite features from Smart Audiobook Player? I'm building an audiobook app now. I have some unique features unrelated to playback, but I also want it to be an excellent player.
Honestly, for me it's kinda minimal, simple and ergonomic UI is the point. It has some more sophisticated features, but they don't distract me, nor I actually need them. For instance: - bookmarks (I tried to use them, but it's too much work, if I really need to take a note, I better do it in written form) - UI to write down characters (same: I used it a couple of times, just because it's there, but it's not worth it,…
Thanks!
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#93How is the Android app? The only good app for local audio-books I know is "Smart AudioBook Player". The web-app GUI in the demo is less than perfect, but kinda ok, if you enable chapter-view. The biggest problem is a single set of ±10 s rewind buttons: for a dedicated audio-book player it's not enough, a separate ±1 min button set is a must. But since the authors didn't think of that, I don't expect it to be differen…
Also check out Lissen, an Audiobookshelf client for Android https://github.com/GrakovNe/lissen-android/
There is also buchable and vaani. Havent tried them all ywt but all on my todo
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#94One of the best self-hosted app I've seen yet. Metadata management is great. The best feature is getting the chapter from audible TOC with start/end times. So you'll get a way to navigate the books you've downloaded and not seek in a giant mp3/m4b files. They are also alternatives to the official android client. The most annoying feature is that locally downloaded book crash the app. So now it's only streaming. Howev…
I have used Bookplayer in the past and it is great - but I don't think it has native ABS support, correct? You just download the files from bookplayer whenever you want to play a new book?
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#96One of the best self-hosted app I've seen yet. Metadata management is great. The best feature is getting the chapter from audible TOC with start/end times. So you'll get a way to navigate the books you've downloaded and not seek in a giant mp3/m4b files. They are also alternatives to the official android client. The most annoying feature is that locally downloaded book crash the app. So now it's only streaming. Howev…
Hey, does it do podcasts?
To any podcast listener and trying or having tried and found some great podcast apps:
I am looking for something to replace Overcast (subscribed) with on iOS.
Without getting into what has been happening to the app of late (because that’s not the reason), I would add that whenever there’s an app or service I start using a lot I try to look for an open or openish alternative. (This is just a personal thing I guess). And goodness I have been listening to crazy amounts of podcasts in the last 5-6 years.
I have tried PocketCasts (subscribed), Castro, and Downcast and I didn’t really like them (I know only PocketCasts is open — just wanted to give an idea).
I just need: native app, easy import/export, queue (just one would do), easy to reorder episodes, few intuitive row actions, history, ability to save/favourite some of the episodes; and ability to mark mass-played/unplayed (all/selected).
And very easy/swift switching between download/stream.
And most importantly reliable and stable and predictable.
If there’s something great in FOSS and in the works and they are looking for heavy podcast listeners as beta testers I would love to help out if I could (and could even help out on Android code side if at all and if it’s multi platform).
tl;dr: looking for a solid iOS native podcast player app that is not Overcast, PocketCasts, Castro, or DownCast (and I am not deriding these apps)
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#97I'm currently building an audiobook app. I've considered adding podcast (and even music) support, but wonder if this is something people actually want bundled together or would prefer tailored experiences.
Can I follow your project somewhere?
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#98I'm currently building an audiobook app. I've considered adding podcast (and even music) support, but wonder if this is something people actually want bundled together or would prefer tailored experiences.
Can I follow your project somewhere?
It's still really early and I'm currently using some AGPL libraries which means I can't distribute without also being AGPL. I haven't been able to find a good way to make money on an app while releasing it open source. Would love to figure out a way to do both.
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#99One of the best self-hosted app I've seen yet. Metadata management is great. The best feature is getting the chapter from audible TOC with start/end times. So you'll get a way to navigate the books you've downloaded and not seek in a giant mp3/m4b files. They are also alternatives to the official android client. The most annoying feature is that locally downloaded book crash the app. So now it's only streaming. Howev…
I have used Bookplayer in the past and it is great - but I don't think it has native ABS support, correct? You just download the files from bookplayer whenever you want to play a new book?
> I don't think it has native ABS support, correct?
Currently, no. I emailed the dev asking for support, and he said he was looking into it.
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Use tailscale or another private VPN to not suffer from changing networks.
The end-to-end principle would suggest this should be solved by the app and server.
If the server entry is by DNS name then all is well, if by IP address, then its not so flexible and will complain/not-work.
I think there are plans to rectify this behavior in a future release though.