Looking for a way to get audiobooks to listen to. Preferably in a format compatible with Apple Books app.

    • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      That’s my go to for sure. But what do you play them on? I am trying to find an app that will play my downloaded audio books and won’t lose my place or restart the file every day when I want to continue

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          Big ups to Smart Audiobook Player, definitely worth the $2 to upgrade as well. Not required, and you get a 30 day trial, but well worth it.

          Voice is a decent FOSS audiobook player, you can find it in the FOSS repo managers (Droidify, Neo-Store, etc.)

        • KombatWombat@lemmy.world
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          Audiobookbay and smart audiobook player is my setup too. I probably got it from a similar thread. My only annoyance is using audiobookbay’s search can be annoying sometimes, but altogether I love both.

        • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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          This one for sure. Listened to the entirety of The Dark Tower series on this, over the course of months. Literally not a single issue or hiccup the entire time. 127 hours worth.

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          I wish it had a search function, but other than that it’s deffo been my audiobook player of choice for as.long as.i remember

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          I’ve listened to thousands of hours of audio books and this is my go to player for sure. I tried a couple other ones again recently and ended up coming back to this one. Simple and easy to use. It does have a problem moving books occasionally if they are in the root directory and not a sub folder. I just make sure my books are in sub folders when i get them.

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        I started on smart audiobook player but I now host an audiobookshelf docker container which is great, it’s like Plex for audiobooks.

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          Same for me. Smart audiobook was great on one device, audiobookshelf even better since being into selfhosting.

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          Plex+Plexamp works great for audiobooks

          For some reason the regular Plex player would restart tracks on me after being out of the app for a long time. But Plexamp seems to have that one under control.

          Oh, also, while we’re talking audiobooks, check out Graphic Audio versions of your various books. They do a great job

      • headmetwall@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        If it’s just one large file I just play it on a podcast app (in my case Podcast Addict) and if it’s multiple I stich them together with ffmpeg before sending it to my phone.

      • LazaroFilm@lemmy.worldOP
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        I use apple’s Books app. If your audiobook is properly formatted, the app can remember your position, show chapters and cover etc…