Migrated from Elevenreader, missing the download chapter for offline use button it has. Having to select each individual section to download is a pain. At least add a select all button/option PLEASE.
Yeah, especially since it seems like the pre-load cache feature isn’t the viable alternative that it was maybe meant to be. I can’t even listen to my books in the car over Apple CarPlay. Even while using pre load cache and putting the app in Car Mode the player takes a 2-3 second pause between EVERY SINGLE paragraph. If a book has three consecutive single sentence paragraphs. It takes 12 seconds to get through. Three seconds of silence, 1 second of narration, 3 seconds of silence, 1 second of narration, 3 seconds of silence, 1 second of narration…
Like the app is already making us pay the price of sitting there and waiting for it to download, while it bricks our phones for ten minutes because it pauses the progress if you try to do anything else but sit there watch the progress bar tick by. Why can’t you just pipe what ever it is your caching straight to the model to get an audiobuffer stream going that can asynchronously write to file system?
Got to find a way to continuously stay ahead of the playback. It should work like a video stream where it constantly try’s and race out to get a 1-5 minute lead on what is actually playing. Get 3-5 paragraphs ahead of the user and don’t forget to account for other common playback speeds like 1.5x and 2.0x
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Lambert
Jul 19
Yeah, especially since it seems like the pre-load cache feature isn’t the viable alternative that it was maybe meant to be. I can’t even listen to my books in the car over Apple CarPlay. Even while using pre load cache and putting the app in Car Mode the player takes a 2-3 second pause between EVERY SINGLE paragraph. If a book has three consecutive single sentence paragraphs. It takes 12 seconds to get through. Three seconds of silence, 1 second of narration, 3 seconds of silence, 1 second of narration, 3 seconds of silence, 1 second of narration…
Like the app is already making us pay the price of sitting there and waiting for it to download, while it bricks our phones for ten minutes because it pauses the progress if you try to do anything else but sit there watch the progress bar tick by. Why can’t you just pipe what ever it is your caching straight to the model to get an audiobuffer stream going that can asynchronously write to file system?
Got to find a way to continuously stay ahead of the playback. It should work like a video stream where it constantly try’s and race out to get a 1-5 minute lead on what is actually playing. Get 3-5 paragraphs ahead of the user and don’t forget to account for other common playback speeds like 1.5x and 2.0x