Nokia Beta Labs

Hi,

Yes, we are aware of these problems and correcting them are high in our list. We have also tested SW with Talks and are well aware of the problems and hopefully can correct at least most of them in the following releases.

Janne

I love this app! Keep the updates coming!

Thanks for the fixes.

I especially like the keylock fix.

Thanks, keep up the good work.

Thank you for your great application. It helps me for usefull timespending during my way to work and back (approx. 2,5 hours a day). Now with nokia audiobooks I am not crying about losing this time. Thank you!

I was wondering if you could do some improvements regarding the application's accessibility for Cell Phone Screen Readers such as Nuance Talks. As I am blind, I use Nuance Talks to make my phone read its screen to me. Most built-in Nokia Applications work just fine. As for the Audio Book Application, Nuance Talks is not able to read the book titles or the chapter titles in the appropriate select dialogues aloud. It does figure out that I am in a list view and it recognizes me moving from element to element, but would not read the element's name. As most Nokia Applications, such as Nokia Maps, do seem pretty accessible, I guess it shouldn't be hard to make the Audiobooks App more accessible to Screen Readers. Sorry I can't give you very technical details. I have just started trying to do some very basic Symbian programming. But I'm always willing to test things out. Thanks a lot!

hi! I was wondering how to input multiple files when making audiobook? I tried to input one file after another but when I select the second file, the first one I selected will be replaced by the second file..the first one will be deleted.

Many thanks for the patch.
The long-waited for this.

I noticed that the Audiobook listener doesn't like a directory structure inside the book directory. Many of the books are ripped from cd using software that automatically creates something like book/disk/file directory structure. some other books are organised as book/chapter/file structure. I'm working on my InxMake application to flatten the structure by adding the directory name to file name to prevent the duplicates, however I think this shouldn't be hard to fix in the audiobook listener...

Cheers,
Ali

It just crashed today :(
I have 6120C and have Motorola HT820 headset with it.
when I pressed the voice command button on the headset while listening to a book, it did go to listening for command mode, but never gave control back to audiobook listener app.
forgive my language, I'm a convert from windows mobile and might not use the correct terms (voice command, etc.), please feel free to correct me...

AudioBook manager

The only thing I didn't like about this application was the PC part of it. I think that size is not that big an issue these days, I got a 4GB microSDHC card for my phone for 36 AUD (I think it will be less than 20 EUR). time on the other hand is. converting files on pc before moving them to your phone is not a good idea.
but, fear not, there is a way :)
I've written a tiny console app (command line) to generate the inx file for my audiobooks without converting the file format. and what I do is just connect my phone in data mode, copy my audiobook to memory card and run the command line. the audiobook listener IS capable of playing other formats...

I'm more than happy to share the app and source with anyone who's interested. I'm also interested in helping developing the audiobook listener if possible...

Cheers,
Ali

I've done it, but honestly I don't like the idea of having to change the directory structure of the audio book in order to be able to listen to it...

Cheers,
Ali

In general OK.
However it does feel like a beta release.

I have found a number of bugs. Mainly in the PC application when there are a large number of files ( < 1000).

It is still ATM converting MP3 to awb files but the first few show the following in the inx file

#TRACKS
HP6_C01_T_01.awb:-2147483648;
HP6_C01_T_02.awb:-2147483648;
HP6_C01_T_03.awb:0;
HP6_C01_T_04.awb:-2147483648;
HP6_C01_T_05.awb:0;
HP6_C01_T_06.awb:0;
HP6_C01_T_07.awb:0;

This is wrong.

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David

there is a problem with russian in this version. i can't see russian instead of russian character i get something like this : ￄ￮??￮￥￢?￪￨￩ ￁￥? ? i tried old version there isn't any problem. please fix this issue in next version.

Oh - forgot , also some audiobooks are delivered as one
HUGE MP3 - ability to split this during conversion would be nice.

Just come across this application , it is fantastic -love it.
However my a2dp bluetooth headset seems unable to control the volume etc. would be a great addition to it.

Are you planning to make it open source? I think it can take a real boost...

when I press the left button to rewind for a few seconds, nothing happens and I have to keep pressing; in that case it starts going back fairly fast unless I keep looking at the timer; not good for driving. pressing 4 takes me a minute back which is too much, most of the time you missed one sentence or so. if it could go back about 20 seconds on short press of the left key, it would be great.

Cheers,
Ali

please, please, please, help!!
every time I want to encode mp3 audiobooks files with audiomanager using of course lame encoder , after 4 or five files are encoded, I receive a message wich says can not open wav file, and I have to interrupt .What can I do

On my nokia n75 audio quality is unacceptable when using a2dp headset. If I play the same file using built-in media player, it is excellent. It seems like this app does not work well with a2dp headsets.

hi janne & gang, here is an audio interview with janne about the project:
http://hughmcguire.net/2008/03/13/hughscast1-nokia-audiobooks/

Small python script can convert audiobooks from almost any format in batch mode and with chapters extracted from wma original
http://pybookmaker.googlepages.com/home
In theory should work for non-windows

I have developed a free audiobook listener which doesn't need any conversion. check it out at http://www.platysoft.com.au/Downloads.aspx

I could moan all day about having to convert my media into yet another format just listen to it in audiobook....but i won't.
The concept is great but I have to that it should at least be able to play almost all other formats including m4a and m4b.
That's why I like Scheherazade for S60 so much. I'm running it on a happily on an N81 8GB and it works pretty nice.
Br
Jase

Comeon guys, how about an update. I've been looking all over for any news related to when we'd get a newer version that'd fix some of the issues found in the 1.03 beta release. I'd really like to see the desktop app get the ability to define chapters that link to different parts of audio files directly from the GUI. Rightnow, we have to edit files in notepad to get that, which can be clumbersome and quiet counterintuitive.

I think this is the single thing currently lacking in the app. The ability to define chapters is quiet basic and necessary to the whole audiobook listening experience. I really hope you guys can fix this up soon, or atleast let us know when you'd get to it.

Thanks for the app though, it's something I've used quiet extensively.

Qasim, sorry about us being quiet in this front (we have had very limited resources for this project). Anyway, this story still continues - let's see what happens :)

Hi,

Apologies from development team but we have been actively working on totally other projects and audiobook stuff has been hold for a while. Hopefully something can be done within near future.

On the other hand, I have been using it meantime myself for several books and at least in my N82, it seems to be working well.

Btw, I bough my first iMac for my home use couple of weeks ago, so maybe there is also better Mac support in future.:-)
Nice piece of HW, have to say, silent, fast and beautiful.

br
Janne

hey, i really like the idea of this application, but the thing is that it is NOT working for me.. :(
i can open everything alright, unitil i click the "copy to phone" button, then i select the book, it seems fine, but i can't select a drive no matter what... i can see the letter for the drive, but it doesn't get selected when i click it. my N73 is in mass storage mode when i try to transfer the audio books.. but it doesn't seem to help...
please help me!
thanks
W

I want to know if nuance/talks support the N78 phone can you ancer tnx

Hi,

I have a N78 phone, and I am not able to control the player from the wired headset remote. Is this a known issue?

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Eivind

The player doesn't handle Norwegian special characters (æ, ø, å). When a title contains one of those it says the file is missing.

Eivind

I have to say, this one app would keep me buying nokia phones, I have a ton of mp3 audio books and it is so hard to find a media player that does a good job book marking. When I found this app I was in heaven - works on my e61i very well. Of all the apps I use on my phone this and the podcasting client are the most useful to me.

I Agree, since finding this app any thought of buying anything but Nokia has left my mind.

Is any work still being done on this beta?

The fact that it can't load files from alist of direcotires is somewhat anoying.

I think Talks supports the N78 since it is a Symbian phone.

However if I'm not mistaken Nokia Audiobook player wasn't accessible with Talks, only with Mobile Speak.

This may have been corrected, but I haven't heard about it.

Hi guys - I just updatede from N95 - to N79 - FP2 - to discover that nothing works - please update to FP 2

tnx

Steen

I am experiencing the same error (-301) problem can you help

For all windows vista users facing the "unable to open wav file" error message: simply open you Nokia Audiobook Manager installation folder e.g. C:\Program Files\Nokia\Nokia Audiobook Manager. Right click on the NokiaAudiobookManager.exe an choose the option "run as admin". This worked for me.
Regards VP

And by the way - should the audiobook functions not be part of the normal audioplayer? Not that this should delay an update to fp2. Please

Steen

As per my feedback by the "feedback route, the PC application's Library Manager crashes when used on my 64 bit XP system.

Can you fix this, please?

When trying to convert mp3 files into audiobook files I get this ERROR message: “Unable to open wav file”. I then click OK and it says: “ERROR (-301)in resampling and level adjustment. Process terminated”

I have already copied the Lame.exe codec file into the Nokia Audiobooks folder as this is required to create the files but it still does not work.

Please can you advise on what have I to do - Thanks

I am using XP Pro, converting and audiobook that is already in MP3 format (36 MP3s roughly 10 megabytes each) and I am getting errors. I am running the program as myself (my accound has admin rights). Lame.exe is in the folder and it is the version that the link on the Nokia Audiobook Manager webpage points to. It seems to happen right after the first file is completed and just as the second file is started. First I get Microsoft error dialog "lame.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." Then when I close that I immediately get an error from Nokia Audiobook Manager that says "RIFF tag not fould from the wav file" (that is exactly what is says spelling and all). Then when I close that I immediately get the "ERROR (-301)in resampling and level adjustment. Process terminated!". When I close that one I get a final error "ERROR: Unable to close temporary file tmp0.wav."

When I try yo convert my *.mp3 audiobook files I get this ERROR message: "Unable to open wav file". I then click OK and it says: "ERROR (-301)in resampling and level adjustment. Process terminated"
What is it about? What have I to do?

Thank you Pearce, problem solved.

Any idea of how to make a more permanent Vista fix? I't inconvenient to do this at every launch.

I have a N82, and I love audiobooks. I love books, period! But having as little time as I do, audiobooks are a boon to me! Great app!

A bug that keeps bugging me is long filenames of audio books and chapters arent scroled, like in podcast app for example. Also, when I exit app, and start it again, the book does not continue where it stoped. And app crashes sometimes...

Also, the converter sometimes acts silly and reports errors with LAME...I quit, start it again, and then it works fine...

And one more suggestion, integrate books with music player. It already supports songs and podcasts, and it has a home screen indicator too.

All the bugs aside, great app! Please keep on it and integrate it in all new phones too!