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Pengman has been busy for a bit and recently I've been busy (plus I maintain a whole bunch of apps all with their own outstanding bugs and requests).

Originally Posted by magnuslu View Post
1) Please, either update the first post, or create a Wiki page where the current status of the app can be found. Wiki is probably better as the community can chip in and update the page whereas only the author can update the first post.
Pengman has been busy for a while and lately I've been a bit busy. Since I can't edit his post I'm assuming we'll need to go the wiki route (which I'll probably move "Help" page to the wiki also). I'll try to get to this soon.

Originally Posted by magnuslu View Post
2) Add an 'About' page. I don't know what version I am running I can't seem to access Extras-Devel at the moment, so I'm not sure how old my version is.
"About" is now in SVN

Originally Posted by magnuslu View Post
3) I have a whole bunch of audiobooks in awb format. Can anyone tell me how I can merge all the individual files into one and at the same time conserving the chapter information?
awb? Haven't heard of it. nqaap has the following means of recognizing "books"
  • A single-chapter book is just an audio file in the nqaap directory
  • A directory of audio files is a book with multiple chapters
  • An m3u file is a book with multiple chapters

It sounds like your awb files are in the nqaap directory? So you'd either need to create a directory and put them all in it or move them out of their and create an m3u that points to them.

Originally Posted by magnuslu View Post
4) Some of the audiobooks I have are language courses (I'm learning Mandarin and that's why I wrote QTeachme, but that's a totally different story...). For these, there are several 'chapters' in each awb file. It would be great if I was able to add chapter information through nQaap!
I can't speak for pengman but I'm guessing this would be a bit out of the scope of nqaap. Bookmarks (which you request further down) would probably be the best you get.

Originally Posted by magnuslu View Post
5) Probably due to 2) above, the app doesn't resume playing where I stopped last time. I assume it will be able to handle the last positions for multiple books...
I'm not sure if I understand. (2) was an about window. If I remember correctly nqaap should remember the last book when opening nqaap and the last chapter / position in a chapter when opening a book.

I wouldn't be surprised if the audio engine being used doesn't support seeking within some strange audio formats which would affect resuming.

Originally Posted by magnuslu View Post
6) I believe that the Nokia Audiobook player had a feature to add 'bookmarks' for the audiofile. It's not a high priority request, especially if 4) would be implemented. The difference is that bookmarks would be 'temporary' whereas chapters would be more 'permanent'.
Bookmarks would be a good addition for reference material. I mostly do recreational reading so haven't really thought of it.

Originally Posted by magnuslu View Post
7) The holy grail of my requests for an Audiobook player... The ability to adjust the playback speed! It is usually quite easy to listen to audiobooks at +20% to +40%, but it varies depending on the speaker and to some extent on the subject. Currently, I'd have to convert the files on my PC before copying them to the device with the speed increase I am targeting. It would be so much better if I could do it all on the device. The iPod is able to do this... Not sure about the iPhone...
I'm have to look to see how to support this but it sounds reasonable.
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