TortugaPower
Audio drama series and autoplay
Hey all,
I have a bit of a special request: I have loaded BookPlayer with an audio drama series. To do this, I packed individual episodes into a .zip file. The individual episodes are folders with single files.
The import worked great. Apart from the fact that the app simply froze for 2-3 minutes because it had almost completely swallowed the ZIP file, which was several gigabytes in size.
Now I have the series as a folder with subfolders. From BookPlayer's point of view, this is probably a large playlist containing small playlists (the episodes).
What I would like now is a way to make it so that when you start an episode, playback stops after the episode ends.
This cannot be achieved with the autoplay options. I tried turning off the autoplay function for books. This is the function that prevents a new book from starting after one has finished.
I think the reason is that the parent folder is seen as a playlist. So there should either be a global option for this – or, what I would find more useful – a marker for folders.
For example: Let's say the audiobook series is called “Series X” and has a folder called “Series X.” This folder contains the individual episode folders, e.g., “Series X - Episode 001 - The Beginning” and so on. Now you should be able to specify for the “Series X” folder: Treat this folder as a group of playlists and not as a playlist itself.
I assume that this would mean that if you disable the option to automatically play the next book, you can start a single episode, which will play through and then not start the next one.
Perhaps I am overlooking a feature that already exists. I would be grateful for any information and if it is a new feature, I would be happy to see it added sooner or later.
Best Regards
I'm now sure that the "top playlist" is completely used as orientation.
I have now a relaly strange problem which makes the player useless for that scenario:
I started yesterday let's say in episode 8. Then I fell asleep. I don't configured the sleep timer (but that wouldn't help). At the end the player was in episode 13. Now it's unusable. If you e.g. jump back to episode 8 and due to the single tracks it plays the selected partial track but then jumps into episode 13 (the position the "top playlist" has). So you can't play sensful from a point before the "top playlist" position.
I think the merge function isn't helpful here because it would merge all episodes and it's tracks into a large one block.
The problem can be temporarily fixed by using "Jump back to beginning". My app has another language so it might be called different in english.
It's a bit confusing because using "Mark as completed" doesn't help. This option sets the playing back in other apps like Audible.
When "Jump back to beginning" is used you can jump back to the point where you have started. But this option must be used again when you are again on a wrong point in the "top playlist"