[APP] ElWPAudioBooks: How to listen to audiobooks on Windows Phone 7

Elastep · Jun 29, 2011

So as I like to listen to audio books very much and as I bought WinPhone I decided to write this app.

It does a really simple thing - generates a podcast feed from a folder that you give to app (with audio book). Than you "subscribe" to this self-made "podcast",set to play it from the oldest one, sync all "episodes" with your phone and that's it.

If you have a windows phone 8.1+ device please follow to this thread: http://xdaforums.com/windows-phone-...oks2-audio-t2922308/post56362244#post56362244

ElAudioBooks - my new app for listening to audio books.

Elastep · Jun 29, 2011

[0.1]
First release

So there are 7 steps you need to do. They a really simple
I'll comment them a little:

At step 1 you need to select folder with files of audiobooks.
Typically you will have smth like
01.mp3
02.mp3
03.mp3
etc. in the correct folder.

At step 2
I try to get and sort all files of audiobook.
You can have 2 types of sorting for now:
like string: 1.mp3 10.mp3 2.mp3 20.mp3
like int: 1.mp3 2.mp3 10.mp3 20.mp3
It's for setting up the right playing order.
Hope you got it

Step 3 is the name of the book. The same name will be on your phone.

Step 4. Select a free port for your system and press Start button.
If it hadn't threw an exception it is a good sign

Step 5.
Now you have a feed url.
It should be smth like http://localhost:8888/feed.xml

Step 6. Add podcast to zune with this feed. Set it up to play the older episodes first and to sync ALL episodes with your phone.

Step 7. Actually sync your device and listen to your book

There's also video available on how to:
http://www.1800pocketpc.com/how-to-get-mp3-audiobooks-to-your-windows-phone-tutorial/23369/

Elastep · Jul 10, 2011

[0.1.1]
@fixed a bug when file names contain spaces.
*minor changes with url handling

[0.1.2]
*now file names can be in unicode

[0.2.0]
*Remembers last opened folder
*Feed url now depends on book name
*Can set custom image for your book
*Log for what is happening
*Minor UI improvements

[0.2.1]
*Scans all subfolders for audio files in the selected folder (in case you have 4ex disk1, disk2, etc..)
*Tries to autofind albumart in the folder with audio book
@Fixed exception when trying to add another book without closing the app
*ability to add info about audiobook to overview section on the phone.

rsohne · Aug 7, 2011

Thanks very much for this

Strutten · Aug 14, 2011

Wonderful!

What about albumart? (I'm downloading right now)

Elastep · Aug 17, 2011

For now it's just a pretty picture of audio book.
May be I'll implement custom pictures in future...

5minutes · Aug 17, 2011

Can this work with protected file?

Elastep · Aug 22, 2011

I don't have any of them, so I don't know....

Elastep · Aug 24, 2011

Updated with new version!

jmo · Aug 30, 2011

This is awesome!! I have just spent a ton of time trying to find a long and complicated way of doing what your program does in minutes. This makes life so much easier.

Custom pictures would be great.

Thanks again,
Jonathan

Elastep · Aug 31, 2011

Updated with new version.
Now with custom picture for a book.

thesecondsfade · Sep 2, 2011

Awesome

This is really awesome. Keep up the great work.

ajgray · Sep 23, 2011

Very helpful - thanks much!

Feature request: it'd be great to add support for a directory hierarchy instead of a single folder. (This would be helpful for multi-disc audiobooks that are organized into subfolders like Disc1\, Disc2\, etc.)

I'd be glad to assist with coding if needed.

Elastep · Sep 25, 2011

ajgray said:
Very helpful - thanks much!

Feature request: it'd be great to add support for a directory hierarchy instead of a single folder. (This would be helpful for multi-disc audiobooks that are organized into subfolders like Disc1\, Disc2\, etc.)

I'd be glad to assist with coding if needed.

Accepted, I'll code it. Shouldn't be difficult

pellepirat · Sep 30, 2011

This is great!

Very nice piece of software!
Thanks a lot!

AUTiger83 · Sep 30, 2011

Thank you! This solves the problem of getting them to list in the correct order!

Now that they show in the correct order under podcasts, is there any way to get one podcast to go automatically to the next file in the series?

I have short segments (5 minutes each, on a 6 hour book) and it's driving me crazy to have to go back to the podcast directory every five minutes and start the next one.

ajgray · Sep 30, 2011

Just hit the play button on the podcast itself (the small triangle on the upper right of the album art) - that will play the segments in the order that you've set in the podcast properties. (For an audiobook, set the playback order to "Oldest first.")

Elastep · Sep 30, 2011

Yes, in Zune set up that podcast should be played from the last (oldest) episode!

Jakeway · Oct 3, 2011

Great software, thank you so much.

Slothie · Oct 5, 2011

Thanks very much for the app. It solved the Audio Book problem for me. I do have a "feature request/noob question" though. Can you make the custom picture start looking from the folder I choose the book to be in and not the last folder?

Also not that it really matters but when I start on the next book I get the error:

system.net.httplistenerexception: The I/O operation has been aborted because of either a thread exit or an application request
at system.net.httplistener.getcontext()
at EIWPAudioBooks.FormCreateAudioBook.StartHttpServer(Object State)

I just close the app after each book so its not really a problem although I usally do a few books at a time.

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