Audio books

Dragons · 04-04-2016, 09:12 PM

Can you listen to Audio Books with Calibre or is there any plans to have Calibre play audio files?

kovidgoyal · 04-04-2016, 09:17 PM

No plans. You can store them in calibre, but calibre cannot play audio files.

fidvo · 04-05-2016, 11:42 AM

If the audio books are in standard audio formats (e.g. .mp3) then Calibre will send them out to the operating system to play.

The drawback is that, if they're split up by chapter, there's not really a way to have the audio book move on immediately to the next chapter once the previous chapter is finished. You would have to go back into Calibre and start playing the new chapter yourself.

theducks · 04-05-2016, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by fidvo

If the audio books are in standard audio formats (e.g. .mp3) then Calibre will send them out to the operating system to play.

The drawback is that, if they're split up by chapter, there's not really a way to have the audio book move on immediately to the next chapter once the previous chapter is finished. You would have to go back into Calibre and start playing the new chapter yourself.

Why not store a Playlist (eg M3u ) and send that instead? Takes care of the order and chainning

Divingduck · 04-05-2016, 02:48 PM

That's the way I do it with MediaMonkey and calibre. In addition it don't mess up the book library with huge audio files.

04-04-2016, 09:12 PM	#1
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04-04-2016, 09:17 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,355 Karma: 27182818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	No plans. You can store them in calibre, but calibre cannot play audio files.

04-05-2016, 11:42 AM	#3
fidvo Addict Posts: 309 Karma: 1645952 Join Date: Jun 2012 Device: none	If the audio books are in standard audio formats (e.g. .mp3) then Calibre will send them out to the operating system to play. The drawback is that, if they're split up by chapter, there's not really a way to have the audio book move on immediately to the next chapter once the previous chapter is finished. You would have to go back into Calibre and start playing the new chapter yourself.

04-05-2016, 02:48 PM	#5
Divingduck Wizard Posts: 1,166 Karma: 1410083 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Germany Device: Sony PRS-650	That's the way I do it with MediaMonkey and calibre. In addition it don't mess up the book library with huge audio files.