I installed 1.5.3 version of application from google.play service on my android phone and tried to play some mp3 files with and without speed adjustments, for some of them everything works ok, but others play not correctly (much faster than it should be, like it is been forward winded) even if speed isn't touched (speed=1).

I also checked wrong played tracks on other mediaplayer app and they were played at normal speed (correctly).

There are NO audiobook players for Android Auto and it could be a wonderful niche to get in to early. I have no idea if the Auto program is open yet or still only if you're partnered with Google, but I think the first audiobook player out for it would get some huge notoriety.

Hey,

I've been thinking about doing a concept to improve the home screen for a while and I have finally did it! The problems it tries to solve are:

• Not being able to see which audiobooks you are listening to at a glance, without scrolling.
• Completed books are still part of the list as well as books that you have on the device but don't want to start listening to yet.
• No way to search through the cluttered list.
• Inability to show or add the author's name, maybe to easily group albums together.

The concept contains:

• The books you're listening to always accessible at the very top.
• The books you haven't started listening to and have completed are separate and tucked away.
• Not everything is shown which makes the whole home cleaner. :)
• Progress bars and UI icons take the album art's dominant color.
• Search, baby!
• Optional: percentage.
• Added missing authors line.

Right now the whole adding process is severely flawed.

Issues

Users...

• get confused about what the two book adding modes mean
• don't see the sd card selection in the top right
• get confused about the file selection / confirm buttons

Current Solution

Currently there are two kind of folder structures we support:

• In a Folder each folder is recognized as a book:
  • ./book1
  • ./book2
  • ./book3
• A single book
  • ./book

Improvements

Another structure we should support is by author:

• authorA/book1
• authorA/book2
• authorB/book1

I think we need to re-think in a larger picture how we let users add folders. This should be combined with an onboarding flow. Right now the user is thrown into cold water and I assume that mostly users with a technical background understand how to add folders.

I'm open for ideas! @0rAX0 cc

I have just download the new version 2.6.0.1 and have tried to use the cover picker. The cover was located via the picker but I cannot see how to actually attach the cover to the audio book?

The options on the cover picker appear to be only

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1. Find a way to read the chapter marks from the audiofiles. Need suggestions how to do this
2. Replace chapter name with a HashMap of <String, Integer> (Title, StartTime).
3. Fetch the chapter metadata in BookAdder.java and add them to the new chapters
4. Show chapters instead of files in BookPlay
5. Let MediaPlayerControllers previous / next functions redirect to a seekTo if there are chapters in the file.

In the recent version of the Player in combination with Android 6 on a Nexus 5; no folders are selectable. Permission for folder access is asked and granted...

Write a more intelligent file scanner who is able to scan only once on startup. After that watch all directories recursively and update / add / remove the books accordingly.

The playback control notification in the status bar is a bit over-persistent. It often opens when I play something with another app and then won't go away. I'm using the F-Droid variant. It's he same on different Android systems (I tried both Android 7 and 11).

I created a simple Matroska file with Opus stream: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8b4jUX2s15VTWRKbjk4bmRIX1E/view?usp=sharing

The playback starts fine but seeking fails. After pausing, unpausing also restarts playback. The other problem is the app didn't extract both the title and the cover from the file.

After re-encoding file from mka/opus to mka/aac using ffmpeg, problems didn't disappear so it looks like a problem with Matroska container support.

App-Version: git master (c89b1adfc20121d7de4cd2d06346a395c1a05e64) Phone Name: Sony Z2, Nexus 5X API 26 x86 (Emulator) Android Version: 6.0.1, 8.0

Hi,

on my nexus5 Material player skipps the last 1 or 2 seconds of each file. This is now the second audio book where that happens. If i push the back button after that happens i get back to the last file and can here the skipped part. I'm using version 1.2.5.1 from f-droid. The books are all mp3s.

Overview

When adding an audiobook folder which contains mp3 files with additional non-standard tags all the chapters/files in that audiobook are labeled "ch0" making it pretty difficult to see where you currently are at (file-/chapter-wise) or to find a specific chapter or point of time in there.

I can't figure out if specific tags are the cause or too many tags or whatever. Here's 2 examples of what's working and what not... example of tags not working:

Artist Name : Terry Pratchett
Track Title : 006 - Der fünfte Elefant
Album Title : Der fünfte Elefant
Date : 2011
Genre : Audiobook
Composer : 
Performer : 
Album Artist : Terry Pratchett
Track Number : 6
Total Tracks : 129
Disc Number : 1
Total Discs : 1
Comment : Im Auftrag des Patriziers reist Sam Mumm von der Stadtwache in das geheimnisvolle Land Überwald...
<COPYRIGHT> : ©2000 Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, München (P)2011 Random House Audio
<ENCODING SETTINGS> : Lavf58.29.100
<MUSICIAN CREDITS> : Author/Terry Pratchett
<PUBLISHER> : Random House Audio, Deutschland

example of tags working:

Artist Name : Terry Pratchett
Track Title : 0107 Das Erbe des Zauberers
Album Title : Das Erbe des Zauberers
Date : 2016
Genre : Hörbuch
Composer : 
Performer : Katharina Thalbach
Album Artist : 
Track Number : 
Total Tracks : 
Disc Number : 
Total Discs : 
Comment : 
<ENCODED BY> : iTunes 12.3.2.35

(At first I suspected an additional .m3u file in the folder being the culprit but deleting that one and rescanning the files with complete app reset resulted in the same problem. So I'm pretty sure the tags are somehow at fault.)

How to reproduce

1. add folder with (several?) additional non-standard mp3 tags to Voice
2. open audiobook
3. see "ch0" in chapters list

Version

6.5.0 (F-Droid)

Android Version

10

Device Model

Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 Pro

Overview

I have several audiobooks around the 2GB file size mark. So far, all of the files which are larger than 2GB have an issue with playback somewhere after 20 hours of playback.

The app goes silent, the time stamp is not updated anymore in the app (in the notification bar it is though) and scrubbing around a bit does not resume audio, except for scrolling back multiple hours.

Here is the exif data of one such file:

ExifTool Version Number         : 12.50
File Size                       : 2.2 GB
File Modification Date/Time     : 2022:05:24 19:23:20+02:00
File Access Date/Time           : 2022:09:11 16:58:24+02:00
File Inode Change Date/Time     : 2022:09:11 16:39:07+02:00
File Permissions                : -rw-r--r--
File Type                       : OPUS
File Type Extension             : opus
MIME Type                       : audio/ogg
Opus Version                    : 1
Audio Channels                  : 2
Sample Rate                     : 48000
Output Gain                     : 1
Vendor                          : Lavf59.27.100
Language                        : eng
Encoder                         : Lavf59.27.100

For the first file where this issue this occured somewhere between the 24th and the 25th hour of playback.

I assumed there was some intereger overflow going on with a sampling rate of 48kHz, as it would match with the 24th/25th hour mark where this occured. But on another file this issue occured way earlier.

Also all files below 2GB do not have this issue, even going beyond 30 hours. VLC has no issues with playback of any of these files.

This issue is similar to Issue #1094 however, the audio is not encoded using mp3.

How to reproduce

1. Open the App
2. Play a .opus file, larger than 2GB
3. Skip to a timestamp beyond 25 hours
4. Playback hangs, no recovery

Version

6.5.0

Android Version

Android 11

Device Model

Fairphone 4

Overview

If you go to the preferences and change the skip amount (f.e. to 30 seconds) it doesn't change the '20s' to '30s' below the skip buttons in the player. (Maybe one could remove the '20s' below the button and just display the arrows.)

Also if you go to the preferences and click on 'Auto rewind' the text 'Skip amount' is displayed above the slider instead of 'Auto rewind'.

How to reproduce

1. Open the App
2. Click on the gear icon
3. In preferences click on Skip amount
4. Change the Skip amount
5. Close Preferences
6. Click on a book and look at the skip buttons

Version

6.5.0

Android Version

12

Device Model

OnePlus 8t

Overview

The app reappears in the notification panel after I close it swiping it away from recent apps. If then I swipe it away from notification panel, it reappears again.

How to reproduce

1. Use the app.
2. Close it (removing from recent apps)

Version

5.0.1

Android Version

Android 9

Device Model

HTC U11+

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Implements #1323

I'm not familiar with Kotlin and the android media player, so I'm not sure if this is a good way to implement it (periodically check similar to normal sleep timer). Seems a bit hacky to me.

Also, the UI could be improved, but I don't have a better idea right now.

Let me know what you think