2024-05-19, 07:04 AM
Hi! We don't have any real plan yet for how audiobooks will look in terms of the interface, but I've been collecting features I want to make sure we include in a label on Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/cool-tech-zone/tang...0&poster=0
In general though, I think you're right that they're very similar to podcasts as a form of content; both have saved positions, sometimes include 'chapters', often need progress synced with external services, etc. There's also some overlap with folks who like to scrobble, in that fundamentally "sync your played tracks with a service so you can analyse your listening habits" isn't really a different feature from "sync your played tracks with a service so you know what you've listened to already". We're slowly working our way through features like these!
> I'm not sure if it would be more convenient / easier to implement over WiFi or over the USB interface with the desktop companion program.
The companion app (or at least the API that is makes use of) is probably going to be the main way of doing external syncing like this for a while. We'll get around to wifi syncing eventually! There's just a lot of usability stuff we want to make sure we do first.
In general though, I think you're right that they're very similar to podcasts as a form of content; both have saved positions, sometimes include 'chapters', often need progress synced with external services, etc. There's also some overlap with folks who like to scrobble, in that fundamentally "sync your played tracks with a service so you can analyse your listening habits" isn't really a different feature from "sync your played tracks with a service so you know what you've listened to already". We're slowly working our way through features like these!
> I'm not sure if it would be more convenient / easier to implement over WiFi or over the USB interface with the desktop companion program.
The companion app (or at least the API that is makes use of) is probably going to be the main way of doing external syncing like this for a while. We'll get around to wifi syncing eventually! There's just a lot of usability stuff we want to make sure we do first.