Listen Audiobook Player

Feature rich and easy to use player for your audio books.

Listen Audiobook Player

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Version: VARY (Last updated: 2024-11-25)
Creation date: 2012-07-16
Price: 1.99
Permissions
Phone: read phone status and identity
Photos/Media/Files: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Storage: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Device ID & call information: read phone status and identity
Other:
  • view network connections
  • pair with Bluetooth devices
  • full network access
  • change your audio settings
  • run at startup
  • control vibration
  • prevent device from sleeping
  • Google Play license check
  • read Google service configuration

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App summary



7 Day Refund Policy
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This player is designed to play content provided by the user.
You can get DRM free books from sites such as https://librivox.org/, http://www.downpour.com/, http://www.loyalbooks.com/, or any place that provides DRM free audio.

Additionally, you may also download a number of curated books from Librivox from within the app such as:
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
• Around the World in Eighty Days
• The Invisible Man
• The Time Machine
• The Call of the Wild
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• Anne of Green Gables
• Sense and Sensibility
• Pride and Prejudice
• A Little Princess
• Frankenstein
• Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
• Bhagavad Gita
• Old Testament
• New Testament
• The Koran
• Tao Teh King
etc

• No advertisements. No in-app purchases to unlock features.
• Folder based library automatically stays in sync with your audiobook folder. Each book should be placed in its own folder. Allows books to be organized within subfolders. Library will allow you to browse folders, or list all books at once. Search button allows you to quickly find any book in your library.
• Supports mp3, m4b, m4a, opus, ogg, aac, flac, and more. (must be DRM free)
- Embedded chapters for most audio codecs are supported.
• Variable playback speed (0.5 to 4x), trim silence, pitch control, and volume boost, equalizer and balance. Can set global defaults and per book override.
• Cover art is added from embedded art, images in the book folder, or can be downloaded easily from within the app.
• Android Auto
• Plex integration to download books from your Plex library directly to your local library.
• Option to convert books to Opus format. Files are generally much smaller with minimal change to sound quality.
• Built in sync support. You can synchronize current position and bookmarks to multiple devices.
• Bookmarks. Including ability to view and search bookmarks for all books in a single view. Create an audio clip of your bookmark that can be saved or shared with others.
• Position History.
• Bluetooth play/pause/skip support.
• Can remember last played volume.
• Widgets.
• Lock-screen control.
• Control with Tasker, Llama, etc. See reference page for available actions.
• Book Play queue.
• Sleep timer with shake to reset, set custom notification sounds, and a few unique options.
• Auto rewind depending on paused time, customize rewind times to your liking.
• Set custom short and long skip times.
• Set custom colors for progress bars, action bar, and text.
• Headset button user defined actions (1x to 6x clicks).


Languages:
English, Deutsch (German), Pусский (Russian), Polski (Polish), Svenska (Swedish), Українська (Ukrainian), French (Français), Spanish (Español), Italian (Italiano)

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Google Play Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Feature-rich with various options for playback and controls
  • Responsive developer support
  • Good audio quality and format support (including Opus and chaptered files)
  • Sync functionality across devices
  • Sleep timer feature with easy reset options
Cons
  • Bugs affecting functionality such as sleep timer and audio playback
  • Inconsistent behavior with features like 'stay awake'
  • Library browsing has limitations and lacks customization options
  • Issues with sync functionality for some users
  • No casting support for audio playback
Most mentioned
  • Great support from the developer
  • Enjoyable and flexible audio playback
  • Bugs and recent updates causing issues
  • Desire for additional library and tagging features
  • Request for casting support
User reviews
Used to work perfectly but lately it's been buggy. Sleep timer often doesn't work and the book will continue playing for hours. The audio gets quieter when fast forwarding or rewinding in the media session widget. If it wasn't for these bugs it would be perfect.
by Gen G, 2024-11-13

First off, I've been using the Listen Audiobook Player for years and I love it. Best player out there and I've tried them all. Great job! Now for some suggestions on the few minor things that frustrate me :) 1. Please provide more flexibility in the library list view. Audiobooks can have tags that are needed to easily find the books in large libraries. I would like to be able to a) reduce/change the font size in the list, b) add certain tags to the list view (series, author/artist).
by Santiago Draco, 2024-02-25

Stay awake feature must be constantly re-enabled. You can tell the app to make the phone stay awake so the screen doesn't turn off, but that only lasts until you close or minimize the app. If you switch over to another app while listening, then switch back, it has to be turned back on. The fact that I can't be left on permanently is incredibly frustrating.
by Jeffrey Lieb, 2024-02-20
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