[pwalker8]

Since the monkey has been linking audiobook threads here, I decided to start this thread here rather than in the Apple forum. Please feel free to move it if this is not how you want things done.

As those who have read some of my past poasts may remember, I like to listen to audiobooks in my car. However, I also listen to audiobooks at work to block out the noise. Thus up until fairly recently I had a standard way of doing things.

I had two playlist that I maintain, one for the car and one for work. I also had a iTouch that I always have hooked up to my stereo in the car which is synced up every so often with the car playlist, and either my iPhone or iPad that I use to listen to whatever (sometimes audiobooks, other times podcast, music or whitenoise/nature sounds depend on what I was doing).

There are certain disadvantages, but all in all, the system worked well enough. Then when Apple introduced iCloud, things started to get tricky. Apple doesn't support audible books in iCloud and if you turn iCloud on your iOS device, you can't get non iCloud devices in a playlist. Not a big deal for the car, I just don't turn on iCloud for that iTouch.

Now, with iOS 10, audiobooks are no longer played in iTunes, but rather in iBook. Once again, not a big deal at work, but it doesn't work for me in the car. In the car, I like playlists because I have the audiobooks in the order I want to listen to them, plus it automatically moves to the next book at the end of a book. That means I don't have to take my eyes off the road, I don't have to pull over somewhere and start the next audiobook. iBooks doesn't support playlist and once a book ends, you have to select another book manually. While iBooks supports Siri, so I can just tell Siri to play a book in iBook, that means I have to remember the exact name of the book that I want to play next.

So, I've been looking for alternates. Most of my audiobooks are audible books, so an app that doesn't support audible is a non starter. I then tried the audible app, which works fine for work, but doesn't support playlists. It also seems to have problems with multi part books that I did not buy from audible (i.e. the Harry Potter audiobooks).

I've tried Undulib. It has some nice features, but no support for playlists. The most recent app that I've tried is bookmobile. The good news is that it does support an internal playlist, so I think that I'm going to give it a try. It also has all sorts of bookmarks, including automatic bookmarks when you stop a book, which makes it easier to jump from book to book.

What would I want in a perfect world? Playlists that I can create on my computer (where it's easier to browse) and download onto my iOS device and an app that will use those playlist and go from book to book, i.e. how Apple use to suppose audiobooks. I would also like everything to sync between devices.