New Zealand
Playing Audio Books in MP as music files is a pain as they are sometime over one hour long and fast forwarding doesn't work very well and it also means you cant just resume playback if you have stopped it halfway like a TV or video.
This topic has been raised in the past under different spelling (audiobook), but I see nothing as yet has been done to achieve good playback and resume of Audio Books in MP. There is a reluctance for the MP team to add such a feature to the music section of MP and with good reasons. So my thinking is that the best way to achieve simple playback and resume of Audio Books in MP is for someone with time and skills to write a plugin.
As well as allowing resume of playback if you have stopped it halfway like a TV or video a special Audio Book plugin might allow audio book files to be kept totally separate from music. Having them mixed up means that when randomly playing music files an audio book might suddenly start playing, maybe not what you want in the middle of a party or romantic evening with your sweetheart
Sadly I have no skills in writing a plugin myself, so if you have the needed time and skill please volunteer now. I would be happy to test such a plugin and give ideas as to what it would need to do.
This topic has been raised in the past under different spelling (audiobook), but I see nothing as yet has been done to achieve good playback and resume of Audio Books in MP. There is a reluctance for the MP team to add such a feature to the music section of MP and with good reasons. So my thinking is that the best way to achieve simple playback and resume of Audio Books in MP is for someone with time and skills to write a plugin.
As well as allowing resume of playback if you have stopped it halfway like a TV or video a special Audio Book plugin might allow audio book files to be kept totally separate from music. Having them mixed up means that when randomly playing music files an audio book might suddenly start playing, maybe not what you want in the middle of a party or romantic evening with your sweetheart
Sadly I have no skills in writing a plugin myself, so if you have the needed time and skill please volunteer now. I would be happy to test such a plugin and give ideas as to what it would need to do.
