As of 20. July 2010 epage has accepted to be the maintainer of this software.

Wiki page for Nqaap.

Original content:

I just promoted my project "nQa Audiobook Player" to extras-testing (again), so hopefully it should be available soon.

* What?
Nqaap is a simple audiobook player that has the following features:

• Plays books saved as multiple .mp3 or .awb files
• Automatically changes to next chapter.
• Remebers position in multiple books.
• Sleep timer

* How?
** Setup

• Install nqaap from extras-testing.
• Create ~/MyDocs/Audiobooks directory.

** Create book

• Find audiofiles for the book in either mp3 or awb format (encoding instructions later)
• Ensure that files are named in such a way that a lexical sort places them in playing order.
• Create dir under ~/MyDocs/Audiobooks with the name of the book
• Place audiofiles in this dir, all files must be in this directory. It cant find files in further subdirectories (for now).
• (Optional) Place an imagefile in the directory. If present this file will be used as the cover of the book.

** Play

• Open nqaap
• Open menu
• Select book
• Press play

* View?



* Why?
On my S60 phones i really enjoyed the nokia audiobook player, and I was dismayed that it was not available for the N900. So I wrote nqaap for myself, and hopefully a few of you guys can use it as well.

** Problems with audiobooks in std media player.

• Does not remeber position
• .mp3 files in "all music" playlist

* Wait, what?
Nqa is obviously not really a word. It could be short for "not quite a", which would make nqaap "not quite an audiobook player" which might be a good description at this state.

"N-Q-A" sounds (to me) at little like NoKiA, and since nqaap is inspired by their player it fits somewhat.

* How
Written in python with gtk and tested on my N900.

* What now
Test it if it sounds like it is something that migth be usefull to you, and please report back with problems and suggestions in this thread.