MateuszRybin Posted May 9, 2016 Posted May 9, 2016 I had a problem reading Stefan’s books. I really like to combined audio and text when I read and it works okay on my laptop, but on a Ipad or Iphone, it’s a big challenge. It’s hard to pause and play, and Stefan’s books are not easy to digest. Pausing and playing, to have the time to think, does take away for the experience, especially on mobile. And mobile browsers don’t remember you last audio position, so if you pause for a long time or play something else, your audio will go back to the start. Especially irritating if you don’t remember where you were in the audiobook. Luckily browser do remember your position in the text. And I thought also that it would be really cool to have the an app that also scroll as I read so I can just sit back and relax. Being a developer, I went out and build it Preview: https://freedomain-radio.herokuapp.com/ The only book available as of now is: On Truth - The Tyranny of Illusion I’m still developing the auto scroll function but it will take same time because it’s a hard problem to solve. The code it simple, but every browser seems to process mp3 files differently, so for example, at exactly one hour mark on Chrome, Firefox is of sync for a couple sec. If you want to help, could you report when your browser plays: If you must honour the category “father” and “mother,” then you must respect all mothers and fathers equally. Showing preference for your own parents would be unjust. http://cdn.media.freedomainradio.com/feed/books/OnTruth/On_Truth_The_Tyranny_of_Illusion_by_Stefan_Molyneux_HQ.mp3 My results: Chrome: 1:00:16 Firefox: 1:00:10 QuickTime: 1:00:11 Any feedback welcome! Cheers, Mateusz 2
Jot Posted May 9, 2016 Posted May 9, 2016 What if you read the book from your Adobe Reader application whilst you control the audio book with an audiobook reader widget button that sits on top of the book? Plus, you can do real-time editing of the text in adobe, a thing you can not do with the text in a browser. The audio widget lets for greater functionality too since some have options like going 5, 10 seconds back or forward...
MateuszRybin Posted May 10, 2016 Author Posted May 10, 2016 What if you read the book from your Adobe Reader application whilst you control the audio book with an audiobook reader widget button that sits on top of the book? Plus, you can do real-time editing of the text in adobe, a thing you can not do with the text in a browser. The audio widget lets for greater functionality too since some have options like going 5, 10 seconds back or forward... I read books by having VLC and adobe reader. So I switch between those two. The audiobook reader widget sounds cool, will check it out, didn't know that adobe had a build in widget for audiobooks. The 5, 10 sec buttons are a great idea
Jot Posted May 10, 2016 Posted May 10, 2016 I read books by having VLC and adobe reader. So I switch between those two. The audiobook reader widget sounds cool, will check it out, didn't know that adobe had a build in widget for audiobooks. The 5, 10 sec buttons are a great idea I was not talking about adobe having audio wiget, I doubt that it has. I was talking about any android book reader on the market. I reccomend Smart audio book reader on android market. Why are you using Vlc BTW? What does it allow for that sth else doesn't?
MateuszRybin Posted May 12, 2016 Author Posted May 12, 2016 I was not talking about adobe having audio wiget, I doubt that it has. I was talking about any android book reader on the market. I reccomend Smart audio book reader on android market. Why are you using Vlc BTW? What does it allow for that sth else doesn't? A okey. Hehe I think we talked about two different things I meant on the computer. So I use VLC and preview to read and listen. on the phone I just listen because it too much hassle stopping and starting and trying to find where I was in the text. I liked you idea about 5, 10 second skippers so I added those to the app
Jot Posted May 12, 2016 Posted May 12, 2016 A okey. Hehe I think we talked about two different things I meant on the computer. So I use VLC and preview to read and listen. on the phone I just listen because it too much hassle stopping and starting and trying to find where I was in the text. I liked you idea about 5, 10 second skippers so I added those to the app Sounds great What languages are you good at btw?
MateuszRybin Posted May 12, 2016 Author Posted May 12, 2016 Sounds great What languages are you good at btw? I prefer ruby, love the syntax coffeescript, javascript and PHP works to. Planning to learn Elixir, it seems to be a really cool new language. Programmer yourself?
Jot Posted May 13, 2016 Posted May 13, 2016 No, not yet at least...I recently started looking into C++ tho.
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