Hold skip direction to skip longer intervals

[Guy27]

It feels a bit counter intuitive sliding to the right when i want to rewind, and vise versa. It feels better to slide to the direction you wish the track to follow.

Also, please support both slide and click for rewind and fast-track, current slide only mechanism is uncomfortable when you wish to go back several iterations (several minutes for example minutes), the use of the bottom slide bar for this purpose is not comfortable to do so with long books due to the component precision issues.

The previous version click to rewind was great for this purpose :)

Love the app! i recommend it to everyone i know :)

[GianniCarlo]

I felt the same way at first, but it grew on me once I thought about it as revealing the control that I want to activate, instead of pulling into the direction I want to go.

Returning the buttons is a valid point, although before resorting to that, we want to implement increasing the time interval you'll be skipping in relation to the time you've held the artwork to the side (like iBooks).

We are glad that you're enjoying the app and recommending it 😄, if you ever want to contribute with any feature in our backlog, please feel free to do so

[pichfl]

Skipping back several minutes with a button is no joy either, but we'll be working on a different solution for that, allowing you to jump multiple minutes in one movement as @GianniCarlo described.

Regarding the swipe interaction: I decided to propose and implement it to make the app rely less on button interactions, making it easier to use without looking. The decision for the directions was chosen to mimic thumbing through pages in a book.

If your book has chapters, you can tap the middle label below the progress bar to limit the slider to the current chapter, which gives you more precision. 🙂

I'm renaming this issue to make it clearer what will be implement here. I'm also closing it to keep focus on the next version. It will be on our Roadmap to be picked up in a later iteration.

[cuddawudda]

Bookmobile has very good controls for skipping. It’s fugly but very efficient.

[GianniCarlo]

😂 agreed. Bookmobile was the first app I tried after moving off audible, and it was (at the time, dunno now) very crude. Unfortunately this issue won't make it for the next version 3.3.0, but we could look into it when we implement the new card based interface for 4.0.0 perhaps 🤔

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[cuddawudda]

Can there be an option to add multiple chapters to the sleep timer? Some of my audibooks have very short chapters.

On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 at 20:48, Gianni Carlo [email protected] wrote:

😂 agreed. Bookmobile was the first app I tried after moving off audible, and it was (at the time, dunno now) very crude. Unfortunately this issue won't make it for the next version 3.3.0, but we could look into it when we implement the new card based interface for 4.0.0 perhaps 🤔

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[GianniCarlo]

I think discussing the sleep timer in this thread deviates from the main focus which is skip intervals. you can open up another issue to discuss extending the sleep timer functionality 👍

[cuddawudda]

Sleep timer request has been added as #300.

The current skip times are quite slow to use, especially if you want to skip multiple times. A version of the bookmobile interface multiple so buttons are available would be great, as long as it could be 'prettified'.

[Guy27]

Hi guys,

so the latest version has the buttons again (yeay!) but still doesn't solve the issue with larger jumps that aren't predefined. can we please consider making the buttons sticky? (holding the button keeps rewinding/forwarding with the same interval)

love your work. thanks

[winsmith]

Alternative idea: Many podcast players do this where the first, say, 3 times I tap the back/forward button, it jumps 30 seconds, but subsequent taps that occur within a second or so from each other jump 60, then 120, then 240 seconds. I'd love to see this in Bookplayer.