aUDIOBOOK?
What music player is best for audiobooks? The most important feature I am looking for is the ability to place bookmarks or have the app remember the last position of play. I have large audiobooks that are set up as a continuous audiobook so it is imperative that the player has some way to resume playback. I have heard of kabook for KDE, but I am looking for something that runs on the general OS.
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I have been puzzling over this same question and have arrived at the conclusion that none of the media players for the Nokia nXX support audiobooks. None have a resume function or a bookmark function.
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Mplayer could be a candidate. It can play a wide range of audio formats, and in the latest version it is able to resume the last file played.
However, in order to be a good audiobook player some changes are needed:
However, it is also possible to use mplayer from command line, to play an audio file. The command-line version allows for the option -ss to start playing at any specified offset in the file (specified as seconds, or as HH:MM:SS). This would allow for a python script which manages the bookmarks and calls mplayer with the appropiate -ss options. Mplayer is continuosly printing the playing position in the standard output, so the python script could parse this information, in order to store the time offset at which mplayer is stopped, and save it as a resume point (to be used with option -ss in the next play). |
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Unfortunately, I have no maemo or python programming experience and am not able to implement those changes. Hopefully, someone will in the future. |
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I am not up to this task either. I am in the process (very slow) of cloning the OS so I can try GArnet VM and pocket tunes on a much larger partition. I will be able to load books onto the same partition as GVM and still have tons of room. I'll post my results.
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Why does everyone want to do everything with Python? :confused:
Shell scripts, awk, etc. are more than sufficient for this task. If you need limited graphical interaction with the user, gxmessage is in these forums. What format are your audiobooks? mpg123 might seem a more natural choice than mplayer, if they're mp3; otherwise mplayer might be better. |
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Copy the following code to a file named, for example abplayer (from "audiobook player), or wathever you like: Code:
#!/bin/sh Then, use it from the command line (xterm) like this: Code:
$ abplayer /route/to/audiobook.mp3 If the player exits unexpectedly and the .resume file is corrupt, you have to delete it (or you can write a correct one with any editor, it only contains the time where the playback has to be resumed, in the format hh:mm:ss.ff, being ff any fraction of second, for example: 3:21.52) Quote:
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Thanks, this looks good. However, when I tried this I keep getting "sh: abplayer: Permission denied" |
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chmod +x abplayer
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I did that and it still says "/bin/sh: abplayer: not found" |
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