Book Mower Audiobook Player3.7.6 - App Store

Thousands of details have been considered in pursuit of a single goal: make getting, playing, and managing audiobooks a delightful experience.

Precise Control:
Sliders are difficult with long audio. If you mis-slide, you can't get back to where you were, making it very easy to lose your place. For this reason, Book Mower has no position scrubber. Instead, the app provides customizable skip buttons: jump by specific amounts in either direction.

A Driving Mode makes listening to audiobooks in the car safer. The screen becomes tap-to-play/pause and swipe-to-skip.

Book Mower continues playing in the background after leaving the app, and automatically transitions between parts of books.

Automatic Bookmarks:
Book Mower will keep track of your progress with automatically created bookmarks. Events, such as chapter transitions, interruptions (like phone calls), and app suspensions, get bookmarked. Just tapping Pause will create a bookmark also, so you don't have to do anything special to create one. Then, if you customize any bookmarks -- change their name, color, position or notes, -- they become permanent, and you can export them as HTML/CSV/Text.

The Sleep Timer has features like shake-to-add-time, auto screen dimming, and it bookmarks when the timer started and ended, so you can easily pick up where you dozed off.

Playback Speed Controls offer fine-grained adjustment, with non-linear increments: from slightly faster to double speed.

Book Mower works great with remote controls, like Bluetooth or Apple headphones. With any audio, you can play/pause remotely. If you listen to DRM-free audiobooks, you can also skip +/- 30 seconds, and create bookmarks even while the app is backgrounded.

Complete control over audio files:
- Reorder parts/chapters.
- Rename audiobooks and parts/chapters.
- Cover artwork can be added or replaced -- just a simple copy-and-paste of any image from web or photo library. Use hi-res images for Retina display devices.
- Download/delete/re-download audio files whenever you want.

Redirect audio output with AirPlay support.

Get, play and manage audio content from a wide variety of sources -- iTunes, Audible.com, Librivox.org, CDs, public library downloads, ... .

Free Audiobooks included:
Search or Browse through thousands of titles available from Librivox.org directly in the app. Browse and add to your Bookshelf, then download when you are ready to listen.

iTunes Audiobook Store is built right in: browse the most popular titles and search the entire catalog.

Audio File Types Supported:
- DRM-enabled content (from Audible.com or iTunes Store)
- non-DRM content (from web downloads, CDs, etc.)
- M4B audiobooks, including chapters, artwork
- MP3 audio files, including artwork, ID3 tags
- import individual audio files or Zip archives (including artwork image files)

Audio Import Options (for mp3, m4b, or zip files):
- add from on-device iTunes Library (required for DRM-enabled audio, like from Audible)
- use iTunes File Sharing (no syncing required)
- Open in... Book Mower from Dropbox, and most other cloud storage systems
- use a web browser on your computer to transfer files.

Try it for free! Try it as a FREE TRIAL with 5 audiobooks for up to 60 days, then only $3.99 for unlimited audiobooks.

Version History Alright, I'm still working on a major update, but I've found this feature too useful to hold up...

Pin Drop/Play:
There's a new "push pin" icon on the main screen that creates a "Pin Dropped" bookmark. Once that has been tapped, a "push pin play" icon is available, which will, you guessed it, play from the dropped pin location.

Why is this useful? Well, let's say you're done listening to an audiobook, and you hit pause, and put your phone away, but something happens that causes the audiobook to start playing again without you noticing (bluetooth, "pocket dial", etc.). Sometime later, you open the app and discover you're not where you expected, so you have to dig through the bookmarks to find where you last paused. With the Push Pin, whenever you're done listening for a while, you "drop a pin", then it doesn't matter what happens, when you open the app back up, you push the new "push pin play" icon, and you're right back where you left off. Or, perhaps you want a simpler method to create custom bookmarks, without having to wade through the sea of Pause or auto-bookmarks to find the one to customize. Just drop a pin (no need to pause), and customize it later (they're gold colored, so they're easy to find). Or, maybe you want to play a particular section of the audio over and over. Just drop a pin at the start location, and hit the "push pin play" button to get back to it as many times as you like.

When you customize a "Pin Dropped" bookmark, a new bookmark is created, so you don't lose your "pin". 3.7.6 09/03/2018 More options for sorting files.

Bug fixes:
- fixed chapter/total time switching of bookmarks
- fixed a few places that the time could jump to a previous position
- fixed speed controls (still broken for DRM-enabled audio with iOS 11.4)
- fixed auto-starting on launch (DRM-enabled audio)
- fixed play resetting to beginning on launch (DRM-enabled audio) 3.7.5 07/16/2018 Feature swap:
- The Dim Screen option for the Sleep Timer has been removed.
- An Auto-Start option has been added to the Sleep Timer.

Bug Fixes.

If on app start, or device wake, the audio position jumps back to zero, wait a few seconds and the app might be able to reposition correctly. 3.7.4 11/06/2017 Bug fixes and enhancements:
- Elapsed/Remaining time for total and chapters can now be shown as percentage, in addition to H:M:S.
(tap on either to change)
- Menu item for deleting all audiobooks that have been removed from iTunes Library
- better table layout when reordering chapters
- shorter time-to-play for long mp3s 3.7.3 08/08/2017 Bug fixes. 3.7 07/24/2017 - Better interaction with system music player.
- Bug fixes. 3.6.4 07/14/2017 Bug fixes:
- better handling of audiobooks in the iTunes Library 3.6.2 04/04/2017 - Ability to sort parts in the order they were imported
- Better support for wireless headphones
- Fixes for starting at a previous location 3.6.1 03/29/2017 - auto-order after browser import
- ability to start an audiobook over (clearing chapter positions and (optionally) bookmarks)
- better detection and handling of end-of-book events
- bug fixes 3.5.9 01/16/2017 Fix for audio stopping at chapter/file end (introduced with the last release). 3.5.8 10/06/2016 - Browser import improvements
- Fixes for iOS 10. 3.5.7 10/04/2016 - Changes for iOS 10.
- Bug fixes.

iOS 10 has introduced a number of issues. If you are having a problem, please report using the support email, providing as much detail as possible. 3.5.6 09/22/2016 Bug fixes. 3.5.5 09/13/2016 Bug fixes. 3.5.4 08/31/2016 Bug fixes and UI enhancements. 3.5.3 08/22/2016 Bug fixes. 3.5.2 08/01/2016 - Switched to San Francisco font.
- Auto-pause for Map interruptions (non-DRM audio only).
- Minor interface cleanup.
- Bug fixes. 3.5.1 07/21/2016 Bug fixes. 3.4.5 07/03/2016 Bug fixes. 3.4.4 05/23/2016 - more speed stops,
- prevention of ways that the audio can start back earlier for non-DRM audio,
- possible prevention of phantom playing. 3.4.3 05/09/2016 A plot twist!

Encyclopedia Browning got the The Case of the Spontaneous Playing wrong!

New evidence has been discovered, and he feels confident that the real culprit has been found, and an innocent section of code can return to its good work of keeping non-DRM audiobooks in the iTunes Library playing at the correct location. 3.4.2 04/25/2016 Conclusions to several Audiobook (Player) Mysteries:

Encyclopedia Browning and:
- The Case of the Missing Finished Chapters
- The Case of the Spontaneous Playing
- The Case of the Screwed-Up Long Skips
- The Case of the Prior Finished Tracks 3.4.1 04/20/2016 Bug fixes. 3.4 04/05/2016 - New full screen driving mode (unpinch cover image in Driving Mode)
Bug fixes, including:
- auto-resume after interruptions (Siri, etc.) for non-DRM audio. 3.3 01/27/2016 - Browser file uploads greatly improved
- remaining chapter/total time display now sticky
- many bug fixes. 3.2 01/15/2016