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playing audiobooks - ChriChri - 2025-11-04
Into to 'Audiobooks' directory I put a subdirectory containing the chapters of an unusual audiobook: some chapters are only two or three minutes long.
I didn't find a way to have tangara play all the files one after the other and had to start each file/chapter manually.
Is it meant to be this way?
RE: playing audiobooks - ailurux - 2025-11-05
I think it wouldn't be a difficult thing to add something like a "Play all" button to an audiobook. I've previously listened to one chapter at a time with audiobooks, but I can see how that would be rather annoying for shorter chapters.
It should actually be a pretty simple addition, the support for it should mostly be there. I've just quickly hacked in a "Play all" button on my tangara that mimics the one used for albums, and it seems to work well, but it won't resume where you left off as the position is saved per track, not per audiobook. I could add some extra handling for this though that checks each file to see if its been played already, but that would be a more complicated change and require a bit more thought.
I've created an issue for this here: https://codeberg.org/cool-tech-zone/tangara-fw/issues/448