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Decent Android media-player app?
Si_Crewe
18-10-2014
I've taken to listening to audio books on my phone while I'm out walking the dogs.

I'm currently using the media-player app' that came with the phone.
Trouble is, it uses a simple slider-bar to set the position where the playback starts and when you've got an audio-book that's 10 hours long it means moving the slider a couple of mm moves the book on by half an hour.

Anybody know of a decent Android media-player app' which uses something like, perhaps, a jog-dial to set playback position so that I can fast-forward and rewind an audio-book accurately?
cutty sark
20-10-2014
Better off getting on of the e-book apps which would save the place.
Mark in Essex
20-10-2014
I don't listen to audio books, but have found this one on the Play Store (don't know if it's the kind of thing you are looking for)?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...udiobookplayer
Larry_Kirsten
20-10-2014
I've got that one, haven't used it for a while as it was on my tablet which I no longer use, but it was ok if I recall.
Sorry, can't be more helpful than that.
pi r squared
21-10-2014
Audio player apps will generally be designed for stuff that's 5 minutes long or shorter, which is unlikely to be a good fit for your audio book. You may have better joy with a video player app that can also play audio - VLC or MX Player, for instance. The main advantages they have are resume facility - pick up where you left off - and the ability to swipe left and right on the screen to make small (+/- a few seconds or minutes) adjustments to the playing position.

MX Player definitely supports continued audio play with the screen off; I can't remember if VLC does or not.
Burford
23-10-2014
I use Rocket Player for audio books. It saves your place and auto starts from that place when earphones plugged in.
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