That's my go to for sure. But what do you play them on? I am trying to find an app that will play my downloaded audio books and won't lose my place or restart the file every day when I want to continue

[–] _danny@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago (7 children)

I used Smart Audiobook Player to listen to an audiobook recently and it worked great.

[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Big ups to Smart Audiobook Player, definitely worth the $2 to upgrade as well. Not required, and you get a 30 day trial, but well worth it.

Voice is a decent FOSS audiobook player, you can find it in the FOSS repo managers (Droidify, Neo-Store, etc.)

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Can't recommend this app enough. Pauses when you get map updates, easy to navigate, clean UI.

[–] KombatWombat@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Audiobookbay and smart audiobook player is my setup too. I probably got it from a similar thread. My only annoyance is using audiobookbay's search can be annoying sometimes, but altogether I love both.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago

This one for sure. Listened to the entirety of The Dark Tower series on this, over the course of months. Literally not a single issue or hiccup the entire time. 127 hours worth.

[–] LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

I tried maybe 5 audiobook apps and Smart Audiobook Player was the one I stuck with

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

I wish it had a search function, but other than that it's deffo been my audiobook player of choice for as.long as.i remember

[–] Dashi@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I've listened to thousands of hours of audio books and this is my go to player for sure. I tried a couple other ones again recently and ended up coming back to this one. Simple and easy to use. It does have a problem moving books occasionally if they are in the root directory and not a sub folder. I just make sure my books are in sub folders when i get them.

[–] florge@feddit.uk 10 points 10 months ago

The last time I used it, Voice worked pretty well.

[–] alienabductionsg@slrpnk.net 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I started on smart audiobook player but I now host an audiobookshelf docker container which is great, it's like Plex for audiobooks.

[–] mrjfilippo@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

Same for me. Smart audiobook was great on one device, audiobookshelf even better since being into selfhosting.

[–] EonNShadow@pawb.social 1 points 10 months ago

Plex+Plexamp works great for audiobooks

For some reason the regular Plex player would restart tracks on me after being out of the app for a long time. But Plexamp seems to have that one under control.

Oh, also, while we're talking audiobooks, check out Graphic Audio versions of your various books. They do a great job

[–] h3rm17@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

audiobookshelf, though you need to self host it

[–] Zootzoot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What device are trying to play them on?

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Just my phone, I have an Android

[–] Zootzoot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

Have you heard of this one? Supposedly, it’s pretty good. https://github.com/PaulWoitaschek/Voice

[–] TheMadnessKing@lemdro.id 1 points 10 months ago

I recommend Smart AudioBook Player. Has loads of features with decent library management

[–] headmetwall@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

If it's just one large file I just play it on a podcast app (in my case Podcast Addict) and if it's multiple I stich them together with ffmpeg before sending it to my phone.

[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I use apple’s Books app. If your audiobook is properly formatted, the app can remember your position, show chapters and cover etc…