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BookDroid audiobook listener for Android

Absent Oy has published BookDroid audio book listener
for Android Platform
Want to take your audio book library on the go with your mobile,
but your phone doesn´t have a good player for them, well now you have.
Product homepage: http://www.absent.fi/mobile/bookdroid
BookDroid audio book listener features are:
* Player portion designed audio books in mind
* Supports all audio files that Android platform supports
* Contains personal audio book library, where you can
add/remove/modify audio books
* No matter if your audio book is in a single file or multiple
files, you can combine them into one audio book
* Supports bookmarks in audio books
* Auto save keeps the right position whether application is
shut down unexpectedly
* Undo button remembers last position if mistakenly you
seek or skip while listening
* Supports skip seeking (with configurable skip step) and
track seeking
* You can download thousands of royalty free books straight
within the application
* Downloads can be either audio files, or zip files, which BookDroid
automatically extracts them if they are archives
* Audio books can be transferred through USB or similar method
to device´s memory card (just like music)
SPECIAL DISCOUNT BEFORE THE APPLICATION
HITS THE ANDROID MARKET
Due to limitations on Android Market in Finland, BookDroid
cannot be sold through Android Market yet. Because this inconvenience
we are offering a special discount for the application before it is released
through the Android Market, so be sure to grab it now.
We are sorry because we have to circumvent the selling through a third party,
but alas when Android Market accepts payments in Finland, we will
release it fully through Android Market. Those who will buy the application
now will receive all the updates for free just like those who will buy it from market.
Instructions how to buy and obtain the application,
see http://www.absent.fi/mobile/buy
BookDroid is developed by Santtu Syrjälä and published by Absent Oy.

Wrong forum; this should be in Apps & Games.

There is an app on the market called Books WordPlayer that is free and has many royalty free books available. How is this different than WordPlayer?
edit: this is an honest question, not meant to bag on your app at all. I'd be interested if it is worth the money.

Hi!
Jay652 : Sorry about this, can moderator move this to correct position?
tekkitan : Thanks for showing interest If I read correctly WordPlayer reads ebooks from texts. BookDroid is quite the opposite, it's audio book player, meaning that it is a media player focused on features for audio books. Many mp3 audio books are really long(8-20 hours) or they are chopped into many files(~100 mp3s). BookDroid aims to ease listening to audio books and specializes to features such as time skipping, autosave, undo skipping, bookmarks, collecting mp3s into one big entity etc. to make audio book listening as much comfortable as it can. Using regular media player with audio books is ockward at best.
Hope I clarified what BookDroid really is

bookdroid said:
Hi!
Jay652 : Sorry about this, can moderator move this to correct position?
tekkitan : Thanks for showing interest If I read correctly WordPlayer reads ebooks from texts. BookDroid is quite the opposite, it's audio book player, meaning that it is a media player focused on features for audio books. Many mp3 audio books are really long(8-20 hours) or they are chopped into many files(~100 mp3s). BookDroid aims to ease listening to audio books and specializes to features such as time skipping, autosave, undo skipping, bookmarks, collecting mp3s into one big entity etc. to make audio book listening as much comfortable as it can. Using regular media player with audio books is ockward at best.
Hope I clarified what BookDroid really is
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Thanks, you did.

I'd try it, but the Android market lets your refund apps you don't like. Can't do that from an untrusted source.

I am using an audiobook player I got from the Android Market called Ambling BookPlayer. It lets you combine multiple audio files into a single audiobook which it treats just the same as a single audio file for playing and bookmarking. It also has a bookmarking history feature that tracks the positions where you start and stop playing and has undo and redo buttons that let you go back to where you were, so you can't lose your place. The free version of this player is called Ambling BookPlayer Lite and it can automatically download the free audiobooks at librivox.org. They have a web site that shows the features in the different versions that are available at http://amblingbookplayer.com/

There's this app too.
ttps://market.android.com/details?id=com.inzi.dreamland2&feature=search_resu lt
That seems pretty cool for a 99 cent app.
I uses motion or speech to determine if you are awake.
Has links to a bunch of free audiobook like Librevox.
I don't think it's a general media player though.

Still haven't found an audio book program I am completely happy with. I will check some of these out

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Still haven't found an audio book program I am completely happy with. I will check some of these out
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check out MortPlayer. I've been looking for a good audio book player. Here are some quotes I collected from various forums.
MortPlayer Audiobook Player. Best audiobook player I've used on any device, and it's free.
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MortPlayer is one of the better dedicated non-DRM audiobook players.
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MortPlayer plays & lists files in correct order. Has every option I can imagine!
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MortPlayer allows you to add bookmarks to the track you’re listening to, so that when you return to your audiobook (from a selection saved on your microSD card) you can carry on from where you left off!
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mydiamarks
check out mydiamarks you can find them on the android market.
Bookmarks all local media (including audiobooks) and even YouTube videos. They even have other clients that android can synchronize with.

My review of Google Music

http://techmaderelevant.blogspot.com/2011/05/htc-evo-3d-and-view-4g-preorders-are-go.html
Still uploading all my songs lol, but so far I'm loving it! Who got their invite?

Can you just post your review here instead of linking to your blog for hits?

Here ya go:
Google's cloud-based music service was announced at this year's I/O conference to much fanfare and no surprise. While rumors of a music store had been rampant for quite some time, that wasn't quite what we got. Yet. But enough talk about what is not present, here's a quick sneak peak into Google Music Beta!
Before I get into this review, I'd like to make 2 disclaimers. The first and most important is that this entire service is Beta. There are imperfections that will no doubt be addressed. The second is that this is really 2 sneak peaks: One for the webapp and uploader, one for the Android app. Now, the good stuff.
First up is the meat and potatoes: The web interface and uploader. The uploading is incredibly easy. After a quick download and install, the Music Manager will scan your computer for the music. To avoid getting the random sound effects on your computer, you can have it scan through iTunes, Windows Media Player, or specific folders. Everything is done in the background, so you don't need to pay attention to it at all. You can also have it automatically run upon start up, keeping this truly out of sight and out of mind. The average library has a lot of music, mine being about 19.5Gb of tunes. At the time of this writing, I'm at 387 track uploaded after a few hours in, so completing this task will take a long time. The good news is Google promises each user 20,000 songs. My 19.5Gb accounts for roughly 4,000 tracks. The one issue I have is that I use iTunes, which means I don't really keep track of what the files are actually named. Since many tracks have numbers in front, and as far as I can tell the Music Manager uploads in alphabetical order, some albums can't be listened to in full.
The web app will look very familiar if you've used the web version of the Android Market. Everything is very tab-centric, making it incredibly easy to use. On the left side, you have the traditional ways of sorting through your library (Songs, Artists, Albums, Genres). Under that you get to the mixes and playlists. The auto-playlists sort out the songs you've Thumbs Up'd, your recently added stuff, and the free music Google is giving out. There's not a lot of it, and it's mostly a song or two per artist, but it's nice to get free stuff.
There are two kinds of playlists. You have your traditional playlists that you custom make by drag-and-dropping songs. The Music Manager also pulls your playlists from iTunes, which is very cool. You can also create Instant Mixes (a la Genius Mixes from iTunes) from individual songs or albums, adding in similar jams. Along the bottom is the Now Playing bar with the familiar Play/Pause, track navigation, Shuffle, Repeat, and Volume controls. I think the Now Playing bar could be a bit thinner. The width of it and the banners at the top make the song and album lists seem a little cramped. While the overall look isn't as visually impressive as the Zune player, it looks a lot better than iTunes but still has the information that iTunes has. Overall it's a very easy to use service while still looking very nice.
Now the dessert. The Android app is very basic, almost to a fault. First thing's first, it works pretty well. It decided to scare me by force closing the first time I tried to play a song, but every time after it worked well. Songs take very little time to load up on WiFi, though it does take a little bit longer on 3G. Swiping left and right switches through album, artist, etc. views. When on the now playing screen, you see the album cover, Play/Pause, song and artist name. One cool thing is being able to make custom playlists in the Now Playing screen, though it would make more sense to be able to make Instant Mixes from this screen. Maybe we'll get that later. You can also download songs or albums from the Library view and Now Playing screen.
The main problem with the app is a visual one. It's just boring. Like really boring. You're given a blurry, boring background picture. There's no animation between screens, nothing. It's just blah. It would have made a lot more sense to keep the color scheme and overall feel of the web app, while tweaking it a bit for smaller screens. The other small problem is that the name of the app is Music. So is the stock music app for Android. While the icons are different, this can be a bit confusing. They should made it Google Music for differentiation.
The biggest problem facing Google Music is the complete lack of a store. Google Music, as it is now, is just cloud storage and streaming. What's weird is that in both the web and Android app, you can "shop for artist", but it just does a Google Shopping search for that artist where you can buy the songs from somewhere else. This may work for now, but it isn't a longterm solution when Amazon is offering very similar services. Google is trying to get the labels to get on board in some fashion, but how long it will take and in what form we'll get the music remains to be seen. I'm hoping for a subscription service, and knowing how Google does things (and a fair amount of rumors supporting this theory), it's very likely that that is what we'll get.
Overall, Google Music is the best solution to having too much music to fit on your phone. While I'm also a big fan of subscription services like Rdio, they just don't have everything I listen to. Amazon's cloud storage is good, but it lacks a well done web player and uploading your stuff is obnoxious. Google nailed the upload and web version for sure. Once they lock in the record deals and make the Android app visually appealing, Google Music may just be the best music solution yet.

Everybody outside of the USA should have a look at 4shared music in the android market.
The most underrated and probably best international cloud service around

Has anyone tried to play it through a different player like PowerAmp. I don't want to listen to music on a lesser player, not since I've heard the difference. Also, are the playlists recognized by other players like PowerAmp?

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got my beta invite today...yippe

got my invite but didnt see a download for the android app????

vampir4997 said:
got my invite but didnt see a download for the android app????
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You have to set up the app on your PC. There is a link from the music.google.com page near the top right for the android app.
For me, I think the biggest opportunity for the android app will be mire management features. Currently you cannot thumbs up it down a track from mobile, and you cannot delete one either. Also it does not appear to be updating the play count when tracks are played via the mobile app. Overall , the app feels more alpha tech demo than it does an actual beta.
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I would love to try this out but unfortunately my library is larger than 20,000 songs :/

i'm trying to figure out the best balance of bitrate and battery. my V0 mp3s eat battery. i think pandora streams at q.2 48kbps AAC. i'm trying out flac-->q.25 63kbps AAC right now.
i think slacker, pandora, and lastfm are all around 48kbps. this might be an agreement with mobile providers--they all stream higher bitrate to the desktop than mobile.
or maybe i should just use it as a locker, and download from it? can't imagine when i would need that. don't really see a good use for this yet. the only reason i would stream is for discovery or lazy mix, and those services don't sound great. if they were higher bitrate, they would eat battery.

All my music is either uploaded to amazon mp3 or on amazon's cloudshare storage. I wish there was a way to get the music over to google without downloading and then re-uploading.

q.25 aac (63kbps) sounds like doodoo. i guess i would only use google music when on a ac or car charger, so that i can afford to play higher bitrates
i don't know, maybe it's my phone's audio chip. the m4a files sound better on my pc than my phone. htc thunderbolt

Not to promote piracy, of course... HOWEVER, for those people who may not have purchased all of their MP3's, am I right in assuming it could turn into a legal issue if Google is asked by the RIAA or a law enforcement agency to turn over records?

sfreemanoh said:
Not to promote piracy, of course... HOWEVER, for those people who may not have purchased all of their MP3's, am I right in assuming it could turn into a legal issue if Google is asked by the RIAA or a law enforcement agency to turn over records?
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no - uploading your files to the cloud and streaming to your device is not "sharing" copyrighted material. no matter how dubious your music sources may or may not be, there is nothing inherently illegal about accessing through the cloud. in fact, it is only the act of sharing/uploading/seeding copyrighted material that is illegal.

i think its prety sweet so far. abiltly to deleted tracks from phone and some better 3g speeds would make it that much better. Anyone have this on multiple phones?? downloaded the player from the market to put it on my wifes phone but it is not in the settings to add an account. downloaded mine from the market and it has a different options menu.

I'm enjoying it so far. I was previously using AudioGalaxy to stream my collection from my home pc to other devices, but I definitely prefer the cloud storage method.
Took roughly 40 hours to upload 5k songs, not too bad. Had to convert some files to aac, but not many. Ran into 1 glitch where the uploader claims that a few song files don't contain anything, which they clearly do.. still not quite sure how to fix that problem, but it's only on 4 songs that I never listen to, so not that big of a deal.
At the end of the day, big thumbs up from me.

Im in beta but no streaming
I'm in the beta, installed android app via beta invite link, uploaded music. but can not find a way to stream from the cloud to my android phone. HELP!

c_urbanek said:
I'm in the beta, installed android app via beta invite link, uploaded music. but can not find a way to stream from the cloud to my android phone. HELP!
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Check out "Settings" and there should be an option to link it to your Google Account. I linked it and it still wasn't streaming though. I rebooted my phone, but that didn't seem to work either. Then randomly, a day or two later, it spontaneously started showing my music to stream. YMMV...

Offline music question ...
Here is a question for the Google Music Beta experts ...
One thing I love about Google Music on my phone is the ability to pin music. This allows us to play the 'pinned' music even when there is no 3G or WIFI service. The way I manage my offline music is through a playlist I made called "My Favorites". I have this playlist pinned, so anytime I add new music to it, it will automatically download when I am connected to WIFI. The question I have is ... what happens if I removed songs from the pinned playlist? Will they be removed from my phone? Or do they stay on my phone? I am hoping they are removed. I would hate for my SD card to get filled up with songs that I don't care to be available when I am offline.
Thanks

I have 30k+ songs in my itunes library, how do I pick and choose which songs to add/delete?

Can a group control music playlist like the Nexus Q could?

So the Nexus Q had the ability to allow multiple users to control the current music playlist, which I believed was a great feature. Has anyone got something like this working with the Chromecast dongle? Seems when I try to hook up another device (by hitting the cast button in Play Music), it stops the first from playing correctly and boots it off the dongle. Little bit of a let down. Maybe it will be something Google will add with updates.
Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=WT0o1truK9w&t=237 This is the original presentation for the Nexus Q that shows off the functionality I am talking about.

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So the Nexus Q had the ability to allow multiple users to control the current music playlist, which I believed was a great feature. Has anyone got something like this working with the Chromecast dongle? Seems when I try to hook up another device, it stops the first from playing correctly. Little bit of a let down. Maybe it will be something Google will add with updates.
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Which music app are you casting from?
Youtube lets you add to queue.
I don't think there is a true Music casting app yet.

Echodawg said:
Which music app are you casting from?
Youtube lets you add to queue.
I don't think there is a true Music casting app yet.
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Casting from the Play Music app. You wouldn't consider that a true music casting app?

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Casting from the Play Music app. You wouldn't consider that a true music casting app?
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My bad, Google play didn't have the cast button show up a few minutes ago so I thought it wasn't baked in yet.
I'll have to set up another music account to see because I don't believe I can't have more than 1 instance of G Music playing at once so just trying from another device won't cut it.

hinataoccu said:
Casting from the Play Music app. You wouldn't consider that a true music casting app?
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I think what he is saying is kind of what they demoed with the Netflix app, where multiple phone/tablets can control the music, and music queue, not just one device. Or in my case, control the music on two different phones with two different google accounts, but I don't even think that will be possible.

This is from the original Nexus Q presentation http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=WT0o1truK9w&t=237. If you watch the next min or so you will see exactly what I am talking about. With the Nexus Q multiple people could access the queue in real time and play their own music from their Google Play Music cloud.

During the presentation he mentions multiple people being able to que things so it should work, haven't had a need to specifically test it though.

I own a Q and I can confirm that Chromecast does not work like the Q did when it comes to group queuing. When a second device is set to cast, the music will just stop.
One can then start playing from the second device and they will both be "connected" but in my experience if one tries to then play a song from the initial device it will give a "cannot play music requested" error.
Also, when both devices are connected the queue isn't in sync between devices like on the Nexus Q
However, if one is using the google cast chrome extension it will display the track playing and play/pause controls.
Hopefully this is just an early limitation and full sync will be enabled in the future.

I'm sure this will be added to function like the YouTube app with a shared queue that multiple devices can add songs to.

Music Downloader App?

Anyone here could suggest a music downloader app similar to music maniac pro for android that downloads music directly to your phone together with the album art and artist info?
Thanks!

Third-party apps for WP8 are usually not allowed to write to your music library. That restriction may be relaxed somewhat with 8.1 though? Not yet sure.
There are exceptions out there, but generally MS wants you to use the built-in music app for downloading music, since they have their own store. This doesn't work so well for people outside the areas they support (or who want music that their store doesn't have), though.

[DISCUSSION] - Which music streaming service are you using ?

There are a lot of great music streaming services out there. Let me know which one(s) are you using with your personal notes so that I can decide which platform I should switch to.
I am a long time Spotify Premium user, who utilized Spotify connect religiously. But as we all know Spotify doesn't really put in a lot of effort on their Android app. So recently I have been having issues with playback (crashes in the background) and as Spotify is only making their app worse with every update on Android, I thought it is time to switch to another platform/go offline. What are your thoughts and experiences with the current music streaming services?

YouTube Music is very good app.

I have YouTube premium so I use Youtube Music and Google Play Music.

I use YouTube and Spotify - the best apps for me.

spotify ofc

I use Spotify. JRE podcast is moving to Spotify so that's a plus.

YouTube

YouTube

Made good use of my .5tb SD card and a 220 gb CD/HDCD collection that's ripped to hdds as wav files.
Over 6000 songs means I don't get bored of the music just listening at times.
Poweramp does an excellent job of managing playlists and playback. It's graphic equalizer that allows unlimited saved presets to be saved by song/album/playlist plus settings/playlist backup makes it a complete and unparalleled Android player solution.
The online sources don't cover a lot of what I want and are a pain to use. Worse I can't dial the sound in and/or saved multiple EQ presets.

I use Spotify to listen to my music

i just have all of my favorite songs on a youtube playlist. saves me money.

I dont let anyone choose music for me, never. So no need for any stream online platform. My music is with me on my SD card 128GB. more than enough!
I will never depend on the internet to access music...

I am a Spotify user but can you tell what's the difference in this??????

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There are a lot of great music streaming services out there. Let me know which one(s) are you using with your personal notes so that I can decide which platform I should switch to.
I am a long time Spotify Premium user, who utilized Spotify connect religiously. But as we all know Spotify doesn't really put in a lot of effort on their Android app. So recently I have been having issues with playback (crashes in the background) and as Spotify is only making their app worse with every update on Android, I thought it is time to switch to another platform/go offline. What are your thoughts and experiences with the current music streaming services?
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Same as I was 5+ years ago. YouTube and a YT to Mp3 converter.

Nothing can ever beat FLAC