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Listen audiobooks

Open JohanPy opened this issue 8 years ago • 4 comments

I would like to read my audiobook with SoundWaves : audiobooks are closer to podcasts than music: chapters, resume playback, delete after reading, etc.

I do not know if it's complicated to add a phone folder as a podcast / audiobook source. If you can, I will appreciate this feature.

JohanPy avatar Jul 13 '17 13:07 JohanPy

@JohanPy I'm with you a 100%. I too would love this feature, and I actually have started making the first initial steps towards supporting audiobooks.

However, the bad news is that I feat this feature is still going to take a long time to get finished, since there is a lot of work to do.

bottiger avatar Jul 13 '17 14:07 bottiger

Thank you for working on it ! It is a pity that it is complicated. Good luck :)

I will try to find a workaround.

JohanPy avatar Jul 13 '17 17:07 JohanPy

@JohanPy That said. You are welcome to help by starting to think about how you would integrate audiobooks form a UI perspective - if you have any interest in that kind of work :)

bottiger avatar Jul 13 '17 19:07 bottiger

I have no idea for a specific interface for audio books, I saw this as a simple addition of a "local" podcast. We would add the path of the folder to be checked instead of the url. The operation would be the same as for the conventional podcast. But it may not be a good idea, I'm not good at designing interfaces...

JohanPy avatar Jul 17 '17 09:07 JohanPy