Hi Raul, The way iTired handled this was that you could select from 3 or 4 different notification sounds to let you know the sleep timer was about to run out. They were all very subtle and you could set the volume to be no louder than the book you are listening to. The sounds were things like a drip sound, a rain sound, a light bonk sound and so on. They really would not wake you up again and you could set them to start let's say 10 seconds before the time would be up. Then if you were still listening all you had to do is press the volume up or down button once and the timer would reset itself to your 5 or 8 minutes or whatever time you set it at. Then 10 seconds before it ran out again you would hear that subtle sound again and so on. I am a very light sleeper and it never woke me again, sometimes I sort of heard it as I was drifting off and I'd just let it go.
Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Raul A. Gallegos Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 6:06 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Adding audio books Wow I don't know about that feature. For me personally that would be a bug. When I set the sleep timer I want to use it to, well, fall asleep and not let the book run on and on. If there was an audio alert telling me that the sleep timer is almost up, that is like someone waking me up to say, hey, it's almost time for you to fall asleep. So it would kind of defeats the purpose for me. If Winston were to add such a feature I would hope it would be a toggle. > On Nov 18, 2014, at 9:50 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes, I agree with Richard and John and give my vote to Voice Dream. Listening > to MP3 audio books is a very nice experience, no more converting to a single > file with Chapter and Vers or redesignating the files from music to audio > book. I also love the way Voice Dream has implemented jumping forward and > back by chapter, time interval or by percentage and how they have done their > sleep timer. All I have asked Winston for is to also give a 5 minute jump > back or forward in addition to 30 and 60 seconds. It would also be awesome if > the sleep timer had a way to give you a subtle warning 10 or 20 seconds > before it runs out and you could reset it with a simple press of the volume > up or down button. There is an app called iTired which does that and it's a > fantastic feature. I can set my sleep timer to 5 minutes and if it take me 17 > minutes to fall asleep, I just reset it 3 times and when I wake up all I have > to do to find my place is go back 3 minutes. Maybe others can support me in > asking for such a feature. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of John Diakogeorgiou > Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 6:00 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Adding audio books > > If you have Voice Dream, zip the files into one file. You can use > either iTunes or even better dropbox to import them into voice dream. > >> On 11/18/14, Fanus <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello Richard >> Thanks for this. It sounds a much easier way to listen with voice >> DreamReader. >> Regards >> Fanus >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Richard Turner >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 3:30 PM >> Subject: Re: Adding audio books >> >> >> I don't know that this is less tedious, but it is necessary if you >> want those files to be seen as books. >> When you impoort mp3 files into iTunes, it assumes they are music. >> So, depending on how the files are tagged, you may find them under >> artist, title, unknown, etc. in the music folder. >> With iTunes 12, I find this whole process a bit more challenging >> than it was before. >> You can search for the book in the music library, then if your >> search gets you all the files, you can right click and select get >> info. You will then need to change the "kind" from music to audio book. >> You will also have choices of skip when shuffling, remember your >> place, which you want if it is a book. >> If the files are not tagged correctly, you may find chapters out of order. >> Remember, iTunes does not care what the file names are, it sorts only >> by the internal tagging. >> I believe folks on this list have recommended software that can make >> the tagging and all that much easier, but I don't recall what the name was. >> Personally, if I want to listen to an audio book that is in mp3 >> format, I now use VoiceDream Reader. >> With VoiceDream, you simply need to make sure the files are named in >> such a way that they will be sorted in order, add them all to a zip >> file with the zip filename the name of the book. Add the zip file to >> dropbox, and use VoiceDream to import the zip file. >> When it is done, you will have a book that is named whatever the zip >> file was named, and each file will be treated as a chapter in the book. >> It works fabulously. >> HTH, >> Richard >> >> >> >> >> Reality is the leading cause of stress for those who are in touch >> with it. >> >> Jane Wagner, from In Search of Intelligent Life in the Universe >> >> >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone 5S >> >> >> >> >> On Nov 18, 2014, at 5:13 AM, Sharon <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Hi all, >> >> I am not sure this has been covered, but when I try to add a >> folder that has mp3 files of audio books into iTunes it gives me the >> ding that it has moved it into my library but I do not see the book >> in my library. I know if I combine all the files into 1 big file and >> then try to transfer it into iTunes it works just fine, but that is >> so time consuming. 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