Best music player and/or audio book player

[simms22]

Originally Posted by brie987

I used tunewiki before cupcake and it was sooooooooo slow but I am sure its better. But bookmarking is the selling point. I really am surprised that its so hard to find one that does.

yea tunewiki was kind of slow before cupcake . i didnt use it much before . but , after cupcake , they changed it a bit . its quicker and i love the music widget (it also displays album art)

[jdeslip]

Agreed. I want bookmarks. I think for now, I will just use the builtin player to play my music and have meridian play audiobooks because it at least remembers the position of the last file played - which should be my book if I do all my music playing in the builtin app. Not at all ideal, though. I want Rockbox like bookmarking. Maybe it is time to write a separate audiobook app that does just this...

[chriss84]

anything changed ? i mean is there already any audiobook player for android which has bookmarks ?

[zakknet]

I'm a big fan of audiobooks, and I have the answer for all audiobook fans.

Tunewiki is a decent music player, but it does not support audiobooks so you can cross that one off your list.

I've tried close to a dozen audio players over the past couple of days, and was close to losing hope of listening to audiobooks on my newly acquired HTC G2.

I upgraded from a Sony Ericsson K550i which supported stop and resume via its built in audio player - in that regard Android feels more like a downgrade. I can't believe that of all the programs I went through, only 1 was able to support pause > exit > resume on load. this is quite unbelievable.

The one you want is Meridian Player.

[bookdroid]

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[skyhigh]

There is a new audiobook player for the Android called Ambling BookPlayer. There is a free Lite edition and also a Personal edition on the Android Market. Their web site says that a "Pro" edition is also coming. I really like its book marking and audio file management features. You can see more information about what features it has at http://amblingbookplayer.com/

[brie987]

Thank you so much for this. Just downloaded the free version, will buy if I like, again thanks.

[skyhigh]

Your very welcome. I really like listening to audiobooks and it is very nice to have a player that doesn't lose your place or forget which file you are listening to. This player even has a bookmarking history with undo and redo to help make sure you can't lose your place even if you accidentally jump to the next chapter, or somewhere unexpectedly in the book, you can just go right back to where you were.