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

Elastep · Feb 1, 2012

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Frederiksberg · Mar 1, 2012

Problems with long title names

First of All: This app is great. It does exactly what I need

Thank you so much.

I've only run into one small problem. When I try to convert my Ricky Gervais' podcasts I get an error - apparently because the file names are too long. There are 123 files, so renaming them would be quite a chore. It has to be done individually.

Is there a limit on the length of the file names? And could that maybe be changed in the next version?

Thanks!

Elastep · Mar 1, 2012

Thanks!
1) can you give me an example of file name?
2) hint : you do not need to rename it one by one, just select all files, then right click first, than rename

Frederiksberg · Mar 1, 2012

Elastep said:
Thanks!
1) can you give me an example of file name?
2) hint : you do not need to rename it one by one, just select all files, then right click first, than rename

Wow, that was fast

Well, an exemple could be: 15 Series 1 - 2002-03-09

I'll check your tip

anseio · Mar 2, 2012

Frederiksberg said:
First of All: This app is great. It does exactly what I need Thank you so much.

I've only run into one small problem. When I try to convert my Ricky Gervais' podcasts I get an error - apparently because the file names are too long. There are 123 files, so renaming them would be quite a chore. It has to be done individually.

Is there a limit on the length of the file names? And could that maybe be changed in the next version?

Thanks!

If you use the paid version of Media Monkey, for audio management, you can Auto Organize the files. It will allow you to completely change the file and name structure of your entire audio library in one action, if you choose.

I use it to organize my audiobooks before getting them onto my Lumia 800.

ElWPAudioBooks is an amazing little tool.

Frederiksberg · Mar 2, 2012

anseio said:
If you use the paid version of Media Monkey, for audio management, you can Auto Organize the files. It will allow you to completely change the file and name structure of your entire audio library in one action, if you choose.

I use it to organize my audiobooks before getting them onto my Lumia 800.

ElWPAudioBooks is an amazing little tool.

Alright, that might be a possible workaround. Thanks!

teamjawbox · Mar 4, 2012

This app rocks! I travel a lot and am always listening to audiobooks. I've considered ditching my WP7 device several times as I always packed around my old iPhone just to listen to audiobooks.

Thank you very much!

fleon888 · Jun 14, 2012

Have you considered doing a refresh of your app with Skydrive support? I'd absolutely love that... I mean a real, fully fledged audiobook player that downloads my own mp3s from Skydrive, plays them, and remembers location. It's the one thing I really want on WP7.

anseio · Jun 14, 2012

fleon888 said:
Have you considered doing a refresh of your app with Skydrive support? I'd absolutely love that... I mean a real, fully fledged audiobook player that downloads my own mp3s from Skydrive, plays them, and remembers location. It's the one thing I really want on WP7.

This is not an app for WP7. It's a program for the PC that creates a faux podcast feed that you can subscribe to in Zune. It then pumps the files into Zune and is playable from the Podcast portion of the Zune player in your WP7 device after the device has been synced.

fleon888 · Jun 14, 2012

anseio said:
This is not an app for WP7. It's a program for the PC that creates a faux podcast feed that you can subscribe to in Zune. It then pumps the files into Zune and is playable from the Podcast portion of the Zune player in your WP7 device after the device has been synced.

No, I know that. My post above isn't particularly clear, sorry (it was late). I was wondering if the OP would like to step up a fill a big gap in the WP7 ecosystem by doing a real audiobook WP7 app, as opposed to this (admittedly cool, but awkward) workaround. Now that Mango is out, it should be very possible.

I, for one, would consider using a decent audiobook player rather than the forthcoming Audible option simply b/c of the significant boost to battery life with not having to decrypt the files.

vzak120269 · Jul 23, 2012

Just - THANK YOU / СПАСИБО ! ... great job.
Throwing away Lindy Audio - ridiculous transfer through Drop Box .... hope MS learns smthg to make their beloved users life easier

I just have one problem - already at the phone : it does not remember last played section. Lets say I am at file5.mp3 in the middle, Pause, then use "stop the music" app. Next time I get to Music and Videos, go to Podcasts, select this podcast and Play it - always starts from file1.mp3 (sometimes from the middle of it)

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I hope its me doing smthg wrong, but what ?
When I look at a podcast episodes list it shows some of them with "... minutes left" and some with just a date i.e. it remembers whch episode I tried to play. But never resumes from the last ...
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Update : OK got it that podcast play always starts from 1st "unplayed" segment ... irrespective of "last played" segment. Not so user friendly but tolerable. Does anybody know still hwo to set up to play podcast from "last played and stopped" point ?

veer01_42 · Sep 17, 2012

Filename.mp3.mp3

Elastep said:
Ok, so for now I have the following todo list:
1) scan all subfolders for audio files in the selected folder (in case you have 4ex disk1, disk2, etc..)
2) try to autofind albumart in the folder with audio book
3) exception when trying to add another book without closing the app
4) ability to add info about audiobook to overview section on the phone.

Ok, accepted. I'll try to implement it soon

Additional little bug to deal with when u have a chance. When I add my folder full of music, generate the rss feed and add it into Zune, I set the series setting for that one podcast feel to "Keep All Episodes" "Oldest First" and "Sync all unplayed and partially played"

In turn the folder of audiobook files end up duplicated in my "podcast library" The copied files created there are all titles "filename.mp3.mp3" Weird i know, the filename generation is adding an extra .mp3 to the end of the files.

Would love it if you could fix that hiccup. All in all very useful app and a novel execution to a method that we have all been using fora while to get audiobooks onto our Zune/WP devices.

Thank you soo much for your hard work and time and I wish you much luck with your other projects.

galilee6 · Sep 19, 2012

wow

This is one of the best apps I now have. Thanks!

Elastep said:
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.

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If you like this app you can support me by buying/trying/reviewing my new app WPPersonality
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Read more: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=22053634

fleon888 · Dec 13, 2012

Hey- was thinking this would be a good way (now that Zune is gone) to generate an .xml and just have the phone point to it from an app like Podcatcher, but I seem to be having some issues getting it to download. Do you think it's because your .xml uses "localhost" as the address instead of a DNS name/IP address?

If that's the issue, would you consider adding the ability to specify an IP or have it automatically grab the local IP address? Thanks!

Elastep · Mar 18, 2013

fleon888 said:
Hey- was thinking this would be a good way (now that Zune is gone) to generate an .xml and just have the phone point to it from an app like Podcatcher, but I seem to be having some issues getting it to download. Do you think it's because your .xml uses "localhost" as the address instead of a DNS name/IP address?

If that's the issue, would you consider adding the ability to specify an IP or have it automatically grab the local IP address? Thanks!

As soon as I'll get a wp8 device I'm pretty sure I'll continue developing audiobooks app.. But for now I'm kinda not motivated enough...

dazza9075 · Apr 18, 2014

Elastep said:
As soon as I'll get a wp8 device I'm pretty sure I'll continue developing audiobooks app.. But for now I'm kinda not motivated enough...

alrighty there mate.

Have you thought anymore about WP8?

Seems 8.1 finally has the ability to pick up podcasts directly, as the poster above though mentions, I cant link to it with http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8888/podcast-name.xml
Zune works fine when replacing the IP address with localhost

initially I though it was just my router failing to pass on the request which was easy to sort out with some port forwarding which allowed the WP8.1 podcast app to connect (your programs shows the initial connection) but the WP doesn't see any files to download.

Dammed if I know why MS buggered up podcasts so badly in this poor zune imitation but if you was to come back to the scene, your program could be used cross platform now that WP can directly link to them. Just a thought, this program is a great simple utility I get a lot of use out of

Elastep · Apr 18, 2014

dazza9075 said:
alrighty there mate.

Have you thought anymore about WP8?

Seems 8.1 finally has the ability to pick up podcasts directly, as the poster above though mentions, I cant link to it with http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8888/podcast-name.xml
Zune works fine when replacing the IP address with localhost

initially I though it was just my router failing to pass on the request which was easy to sort out with some port forwarding which allowed the WP8.1 podcast app to connect (your programs shows the initial connection) but the WP doesn't see any files to download.

Dammed if I know why MS buggered up podcasts so badly in this poor zune imitation but if you was to come back to the scene, your program could be used cross platform now that WP can directly link to them. Just a thought, this program is a great simple utility I get a lot of use out of

8.1 has folder picker, and it can play files from internal storage. I've got a win phone yesterday, and now playing around with all the new stuff in 8.1

I've found out that there's still no convenient way of playing audiobooks... So anyway I will somehow solve this problem for myself and share this with you here...

Elastep · Apr 22, 2014

So not a big deal may be, BUT I'm able to play mp3 files from internal storage in background.
This means that you can just copy mp3 files to your win phone and then simply play them through an app.
I think I'll start a new thread and will post there my current work.

Elastep · Nov 6, 2014

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Take a look on my new app ELAudioBooks.

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