I like that when I pause an audiobook and go listen to a song and go back to an audiobook it stays where the book is paused
Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 29, 2013, at 2:10 PM, Jürgen Fleger <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Nic and Bread, > thanks for your replies. I'm glad you could duplicate this behaviour which is > annoying to me as well. And I agree it's worth a report to Apple which I will > do now. > All the best > Jürgen > >> Am 28.09.2013 um 21:46 schrieb Brett C. <[email protected]>: >> >> For what it's worth, my wife is sighted, and she is disappointed by this >> chapter behavior as well. >> >> Brett C. >> >>> On Sep 28, 2013, at 1:10 PM, Nicholas Parsons >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> HI Jürgen, >>> You're right, I'm sorry. Before sending you that last email I saw the track >>> list button but didn't press it. >>> Later that night I was reading an audiobook and tried using it, but it only >>> showed me the audio files, not the chapters/tracks. In my case it was a >>> book from audible which was in two parts (that is, two files) which were >>> each divided into chapters. After tapping the title, I could see the two >>> parts/files. Annoyingly, VoiceOver read out the length of each file before >>> the name, which is a change (and a bad one) since iOS6. >>> Once I started playing one of these files I could use the next and previous >>> buttons to skip through chapters/tracks. However, tapping the track list >>> button merely brought up the two parts/files, not the chapters. >>> More annoyingly still, the time scrubber thing now shows the time for the >>> entire file, not just the chapter. This is another change since iOS6. In >>> iOS6 it would just show the time for the current track, now it has the time >>> for the whole file. As the time for the whole file is longer, so the >>> increments it skips are larger when you flick up or down. So for me, I >>> could skip forward and back by 15-30 seconds using the buttons either side >>> of the play/pause button, or skip forward/back by one hour blocks with the >>> scrubber. This discrepancy made it really difficult to find my place in the >>> book. >>> I think this is worth writing to Apple accessibility about and explaining >>> the affect this has on VoiceOver users. I presume it's fine for sighted >>> people as they can probably just touch the scrubber at the point they wish >>> to be, whereas VoiceOver users have to flick up and down by set increments. >>> This is really disappointing as one of the reasons I loved my iPod and >>> iPhone was the awesome way in which Apple handled the playing of audiobooks. >>> Best, >>> Nic >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
