BetaLabs

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.

Agreed. Fixed. My fault.

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.

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.

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

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'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!

I can only give my support to those who have asked to have this app availabe on n97. I also had a n95 before and have listened to almost 100 books. Then I got a n97... And guess if I got disapointed when I noticed that the n97 doesnt support audiobooksplayer! So please let us have this app, so we will stay with nokia! And I could pay to have it. THats not the issiue,

Best regards,
Fanan

I understand ENOTIME... this is probably most popular error code;) But...

a) if you want to earn some money - please continue this project (or sell the code)

b) if you don't - please make it Open Source.

Of course I don't talk about this pseudo-application for Windows (this is very nice example of badly designed application) but about (almost) excellent player for my Nokia :)

Please don

I know it is unlikely to change anything but I too use Audiobooks everyday and I have not been able to find anything close. I have been a devoted Nokia fan including my E61, E65, N95, and now an E75. I am addicted to the audiobooks so if something isn't done I may switch brands next time I get the itch for a new phone..I will not be happy. Can't it at least be offered to a commercial software house say SBSH?

Thanks,
Fred

@ed_dodds: we considered open sourcing the project at the time of archival. Back then, open sourcing didn't seem worth the effort (doing it properly requires work - and it seemed unclear that the community would pick up the maintenance and further development).

Note that Nokia is not withdrawing from this area. Only this hobbyist project was archived.