BookPlayer

Name: BookPlayer
Rating: 5.0 (1 reviews)

Play M4B/M4A/MP3 audiobooks on iPhone

5.0•1 review•

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Play M4B/M4A/MP3 audiobooks on iPhone

5.0•1 review•

3 followers

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BookPlayer is a wonderful player for your M4B/M4A/MP3 based audiobooks. You can easily import files via AirDrop or from other apps & manage books and playlists. The player adopts to the cover colors and uses simple gestures to control playback. Chapters & a sleep timer are available, too. BookPlayer is free and Open Source!

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Forvo

I use both Audible and Scribd on iPhone. What are the things I can do better with BookPlayer comparing to native Audible and Scribd app?

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8yr ago

@kzynakamura You can airdrop audio files from your laptop to the phone.

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8yr ago

Android planned? Please tell me so, this app seems AWESOME (especially interested in the visual UX, speeding up, and knowing which chapter I'm in), and there's not great options in the droid market!

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8yr ago

TelemetryDeck for Web

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@camila_rubio_varon both UX and code are tailored to iOS. Creating an Android app is possible, but not our main focus right now. If an Android developer is reading this: join us in creating a sibling project! I‘d be happy to provide the UI design and UX that fits the Material system.

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8yr ago

Amazing app to manage and listen to all my audiobooks on IOS devices. One thing I’ve noticed, only some playlist imports pull through the cover image, usually (.JPG) and some do not, I’ve tried matching the name to the audio files, but it just seems to be by chance, is there anyway to set the image of a playlist to a certain book cover? Or is it an issue with compatibility? Thanks, Luke

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7yr ago

TelemetryDeck for Web

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@lukeplummer98 Sorry for the late reply. Playlists use the album artwork from the first item. We do not support custom images.

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7yr ago

Best app for playing independently downloaded books on phone. Only one problem: It is tedious putting books into BookPlayer from drop box because you must do each file one at a time. It looks like the interface is meant to put multiple files in at once but one at a time it must be.

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6yr ago

TelemetryDeck for Web

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@dan_wm Pro tip: BookPlayer accepts both zip archives and M4B based books (which are a single file).

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6yr ago

Wonderful product but when creating a playlist, I am not able to add files after a certain amount. Also, the app occasionally crashes when I am importing files

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8yr ago

BookPlayer

Maker

@somtougeh we're working on some fixes for the next patch (3.0.1) that include some crashes when importing files, thanks for the feedback 👌

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8yr ago

It crashes when I add many mp3 files. Adding from any drive on the phone doesn't make any sense - files are imported in some strange order and ordering one file after another is A LOT of work. You can delete files only one by one and not the whole book. If you add the ability to import and create playlists from zips it will be a very nice feature. Other two apps in this category are not free, with a lot of bugs and have an ugly design.

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8yr ago

TelemetryDeck for Web

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@dickensons we plan to improve importing large amounts of files in an upcoming version. This includes asking for a playlist where to put the files, support for sorting after import and other things, see our Roadmap for details. Could you tell me how many files you tried to add at once when you experienced the crash? We tried with 150 files or so for our tests. We recommend using free software to convert MP3 based audiobooks into the more manageable M4B format for now. See our wiki for details https://github.com/TortugaPower/... This makes the files easier to organize and still gives you access to chapter navigation.

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8yr ago

@pichfl Thank you, it worked with M4B format! Listening to my first book with your app!

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8yr ago

100DaysOfAI Challenge

That's interesting, can you also sync it with your iBooks and Audibles somehow?

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8yr ago

BookPlayer

Maker

@guillaumebardet BookPlayer provides three ways of importing books: 1.- iTunes file sharing 2.- Airdrop 3.- From apps that make available their files for other apps to import Unfortunately, iBooks and Audible don't provide their files to other apps. But, you can extract them via iTunes and import them to BookPlayer in whichever of the three ways you feel more comfortable. One thing to keep in mind, Audible files have .aax extension, which means they are DRM protected, there are ways to remove this protection if you are the owner, and then you can use those files freely

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8yr ago

100DaysOfAI Challenge

That's what I figured @gcarlo89, I wish they would let us easily import them it would really make this app perfect. :) Wishing you the best regardless!

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8yr ago

@guillaumebardet @gcarlo89 could you show me how to import with Catalina ?

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7yr ago

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