MP3 Audiobook Player Pro 4+

I have two quibbles and one problem with this app, which is otherwise very good. I like the interface overall - it presents the information I actually want to see, and doesn’t waste most of the screen showing me a pretty picture of the cover. The book list shows a decent number of books at once on my phone, and has a search feature. I also appreciate being able to easily skip by time or chapter.

The quibbles: First, I’d like to have an overall progress indicator, either instead of or as an alternative to the chapter progress indicator on the play screen. Sometimes I need to know how much time is left in the book, and there doesn’t appear to be a good way to tell with the current UI. Second, I’d appreciate an index (similar to the Contacts app) so it’s easy to jump to titles later in the list.

The problem: Loading multiple books using any method other than iTunes file sharing is either painful or broken, and those other methods were a major attraction of the app for me. If you drag&drop multiple .m4b book files via WebDav, the copy operation will crash because the player app moves the files into folders before they’ve finished copying. It seems to work OK for 1 book at a time, but if you want to load 200 at once (or even just several), forget it. This operation is likewise painful using cloud sharing - selecting 1 book at a time is impractical for large numbers of books, and multiples at once has failed in unpredictable ways for me multiple times.

I have been using evermusic for my audiobooks, but do to its glitches (freezing, slow, deleting my bookmarks) ive searched for alternative. This one was only one close that I can add my own mp3 files and bookmarks. Last few updates have made it much better, but Some basic features/simple tweaks would make it perfect:

1. Overal volume control to raise AND lower volume seperate in app, and in smaller incriments. So far ability to raise volume was added (and appreciated!) but only in 2 big jumps, and cant lower at all. More control over this would be great.

2. Easier bookmark access (access bookmarks inside books, instead of scrolling thru every bookmark from every book) and ability to change bookmark timestamp within the bookmark so dont need to keep creating rewinding till at right exact spot

3. Most important-Ability to use BOTH speed changer AND equalizer/volume control at same time, instead of just 1 or the other like it is now.

On a positive note, the improved speed selecter is by far the best ive used, keeps the quality, its smooth, and adjusts by 0.5 incriments instead of 0.25 like others, this is the feature that probably sets this apart from the rest now!

And ability to export books AND bookmarks is another unique feature that is great and recently added. So thankyou for those!

***Just please please consider at least better volume control that can use same time as speed changer and I can finally get rid of my other audio apps!!

I’ve tried just about every third party app for uploading and listening to audiobooks, and this is probably the best. It’s got all of the features that you’d expect from an app like this, but one of my favorite additions is
being able to write a note when making a bookmark as that makes going back through them SOOOOO much easier. I’ve never had any issues getting books to load and it hasn’t failed yet at recognizing when multiple files make up a single book.

My only complaint is that quite often after resuming playback after even a very brief pause, the playback will start way before where I pressed pause, sometimes as much as 10+ minutes prior. I’ve tried several things to narrow down the issue, but I can’t reliably reproduce the issue.