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Renegade Reader v4
Latest Renegade Reader release
* v4.r3
This release fixes various display/performance issues with the audio book player.
- New backend utility "Audiobook Json Creator" is included (see /utils folder) to help create custom timestamps and chapter marks for your audio books.
- Audio book player no longer pre-loads from audio book containers for timestamp/chapter information. (much faster!)
- Multiple audio book containers now display timestamps rather than durations.
- Seek bar treats multiple audio book containers as a single container instead of resetting at the beginning of a new chapter.
- The chapter # display was removed in favor of using the # of the chapter in the chapter name field.
- Audio book player navigation and playlist generation have been re-worked.
Personally, over the past week I have used the Audiobook JSON Creator to create custom timestamp and chapter information for over 360 audio book containers.
I hope you find it handy.
GUISI
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* v4.r4
This release contains fixes and changes to the audio book player.
Fixes:
- Apparently, at some point, an unfinished version of the audio book player's code infiltrated the last release as well as my backups - causing most of the audiobook player navigation buttons to fail. So, I wound up having to rewrite several parts of the code that were missing. Apologies.
- Audio book player automatically loads audio book on page load in lieu of waiting for a click on the play/pause button.
Changes:
- Several cosmetic changes to the audio book player.
- Abandoned support for older multi-file audio books separated by chapter. Audio books must be contained in a single file for the following reasons:
1. The Audiobook JSON Creator utility will continue to support both formats.
2. There are quite a few free (or inexpensive) utilities that merge multiple audio file containers into single audio file containers.
3. The audio book player code was getting larger than the rest of the theme.
4. Loading a single audio file and a JSON formatted text file is much quicker than loading multiple audio files twice (once to calculate global timestamps and again to load the current chapter file) and a JSON formatted text file.