Hi, all.
I'm sure everyone knows about this, but it's something I just
discovered and I thought it would do no harm to put it out there in case
someone has, like me, not yet found out about it. If one has jailbroken his
device, and has VoiceDream Reader, one can use Activator to enable playing,
pausing, and moving between books as if they were songs using hardware
buttons on the device. For example, one can cause the pressing of the two
volume buttons together, wherever they are pressed and whether the device is
locked or unlocked, to play/pause the reading of a book. Again, for example,
the pressing of the volume down followed by volume up can move to the next
book, while the pressing of volume up followed by volume down can move to
the previous book. To set this up, simply install Activator, which is
available from the standard Cydia repositories, go into the program, and set
up your favourite hardware keys as shortcuts for the previous track, next
track, and play/pause functions. The nice thing about this, besides the fact
that you can use it while the device is locked, is that what these functions
do is dependent upon the last item you played. That is, if you last played a
book with VoiceDream, your previous/next/PlayPause will act to go to the
previous book, next book, and will play/pause books, not music. If, on the
other hand, you played a file from the music player last, those functions
will apply to the music, not to the book. Note also that you can, in
VoiceDream settings, modify things so that the previous/next track buttons
move by 30 seconds within a book, rather than going to the previous or next
book in the list.
If anyone is unfamiliar with Activator, this podcast
http://empoweringtheblind.com/2013/02/12/new-episode-activator-can-your-smar
tphone-really-be-smartt/
explains it. The VoiceDream site is
http://www.voicedream.com/
Aman
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