Nokia Beta Labs, Shaping the future together

I realy loved Nokia Audio Books. I hope someone else will continue with the development.
Will keep the installation file safe for future need if it will be removed from the site someday.

Please include a link back to the site at the end of the surveys. Dead-end pages are quite unattractive.

> Please include a link back to the site at the end of the surveys.
> Dead-end pages are quite unattractive.

Agreed. Fixed. My fault.

This is a shame. Nokia Audiobooks is one of the BEST and MOST USEFUL apps in Nokia Beta Labs. I really hope this is a false alarm. Otherwise I will stick to the current bugs for the years to come.

Not the first time that Nokia disregards the users, sadly. Just remember the (lack of) support for eduroam networks over the years.

Sad to hear it.

For me Nokia Audiobooks is the most important application on my phone and it has changed the way I listen to audiobooks.
It was the main reason I swore to only buy Nokia phones in the future.

I hope this survey means that a new application will replace the Nokia Audiobooks application.

Just one thing that didn't appear on the survey, Make it accessible with Mobile Speak and Talks. Or even better, make it accessible with the built in TTS.

Ah, and Nokia, The iphone is looking more and more attractive. I challenge you to make me stick with you on my next phone as well. Keep providing the best audiobook performance on the market.

PS.
If your going to support Audible.com books as well, please include a sleep timer.

...function.

As easy as that.

Bjørn Tore Hoem

I really love this audiobookplayer, bookmarks and resume is a must when listening to books.
All I wish for is mp3 support. I prefer to have my ebooks as mp3's so I can listen to them in the car. Converting audiobooks is a GIANT DRAG. Diskspace has not really been a problem since the seventies so I don't get the need for extra compression.

If someday someone takes up this project again: Could we pleeease (pretty please with suger on top) get mp3-support from the player?

also possibility to use built in tts with text/doc/pdf files would be another great feature that would probably make me stick with nokia and not go iphone next time. Great way to prepare for meetings.

can you make the source avail. so someone can update it.. it should be a simple recompile to get it working in n97 since it has keys..

also the new project looks to be like some kinda store where you can buy and lend books directly from nokia aka their music store..

i am not intereseted in this as most wont be.. the selection just wont be there and compare to the limitless .mp3 that you can download from the net and "used to" be able to convert to nokia audiobook format and play on the phone.. how about at least having the audiobook format avail. in the music player for podcasts in future firmware releases

.mp3 support is built into the nokia audiobook player just make a podcast directory on your memory card and put the book folder under it.. and the mp3 in the book folder.. doesnt anyone read my posts in the forum?

It was one of the more useful things beta labs has come out with. The simple introduction of a sleep timer made a huge difference for me.

I hate to say it but when its time for my next upgrade im going to have to look long and hard at what else is out there instead of blindly jumping on board with nokia. Splashed out a fortune on Nokia's new Flagship phone, the n97 but feels like a downgrade as my n95 has an audio-book application and my N97 does not.

Hobbyist project or not, it should not be discontinued. I cant imagine it would have been difficult adapting it for S60 5th.

I understand that Janne Vainio (superb work lad) may not have the time or resources to develop and maintain his Audiobooks program. But why is this project suddenly being dropped by Nokia instead of assigning more resources to it? I can only think of some murky commercial manouver.

In this world of intellectual dullness, we need our audiobooks like water!!

I'm sure that NokiaAudioBooks is great and very important project! It has opened new kind of using mobile phone on the S60 platform. But the application have two serious bugs and I'm asking you to fix them. After that NokiaAudioBooks will become complete application for listening audiobooks.

Bugs:

1. The first bug is the unsupporting of national charactersets in AudioBookManager. Now we aren't able to use russian characters in the names of books that we are compressing. It's very uncomfortable and it's very easy to be fixed.
To fix this you have to change convertion of text from unicode to multibyte and backwards from the simple copying of one char to the calling of WinAPI functions MultByteToWideChar and WideCharToMultiByte. It's need to be changed in the four places of the program code. I suppose it willl take developer from half an hour to one hour to fix it.

2. The second bug is the unsupporting of buttons on the Nokia Music Headsets like AD-54 (wired), BH-204 (bluetooth) and others. These are play/pause, next, rew, stop and volume buttons. NokiaAudioBooksPlayer application does not react to pressing of them now. It's more serious bug than the first one. It's very uncomfortable to listen audiobooks without controlling of playback from headset in the cold weather in winter. All of Nokia's audio applications have support of these buttons but NokiaAudioBooks does not. It's the very necessary feature!

Audiobook was my favorite app on N95 8GB. Now i´m unfortunayl changed to N97. Without Nokia Audiobook it was realy a downgrading. We need Audiobboh for 5th Edition. Please don´t stop!

I can realy understand, that a programmer wants to earn something for works. Therfore make it comercial. I guest a lot of people will be pay for your wonderfull app.!