Totally. It's nice to have an outside perspective and getting confirmation it's actually used – even (or especially) if your usage differs a bit from the main use case of the app. Please don't let it discourage you if I disagree sometimes and deny implementing stuff for one reason or another! Thanks for the ongoing praise, "that goes down like butter", as we say in germany, because we're a weird people.

For an audio book with a few hundred files this would slow down start up time on slow hardware like a Jolla JP01 very much.

That's the "lazy" thing I mentioned after integrating it: When saving the playback state, it just quickly checks if the file is in the same directory as the first file in playlist – if not, it won't save anything. If playlist handling gets rewritten completely, I'll try to keep that in mind, but I'm not planning to do that at the moment.


Talefish does not use any metadata at all, because those are only available via QML if you use Tracker – see some of the previous posts. Try to put your cover files as .jpg in the directory containing your audio files before opening that directory.