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2009-10-17, 07:49
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I Am thinking of setting up my own scrapper for audiobooks. This way we could have a new menu system for audiobooks. With it's own fan art and thumbnails and so on. This would also lead the way for a book marking system like videos have. Something that is needed for good audiobook support.
Do you think it is worth doing?
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natethomas
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Being a frequent listener of audiobooks, I would not be opposed to this.
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I would love it, but I think the feature freeze and removal of fluff would stop any real development on this ... at least for now.
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ralob
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I am totally for this. I always listen to audiobooks.
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Do you mean a scraper or a site which can be scraped?
I like the idea of incorporating my audiobooks into xbmc.. would be good to be able to have a books library which can include audiobooks AND/OR ebooks for each book so that you can listen to the audiobook as you follow the text on screen
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I Mean a site that can be scraped
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sho
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The first priority to be able to enjoy audiobooks in XBMC in opinion would be to be able to resume in audio. Which is not possible atm.
After that would come all the database coding required to support Audiobook scraping (such has setting content in audio, which is not part of the Music Library either)
But sure you can set up your site and hope that XBMC will evolve in that direction.
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Hi
I would like to see an audio book mode. Such that xbmc keeps track of which file in a folder has been read and at what place you are up to in listening in the current file. You could automatically keep a book mark of the current place.
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mwkurt
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Hello,
I was wondering if there was any possibility of incorporating audio books into XBMC? I did some searching and found two very short threads that were made in 2008 that brought up audio books, but nothing was ever followed up on them. I really don't know how they would be implemented as I am not a programmer, but for someone to take up the task here a few ideas.
They would be in an audio format (mp3, flac, ...etc) and probably split up into different parts or chapters. They could have a bookcover as the folder.jpg and the possibility of a writeup of the author for information. They would probably have to behave in a similar fashion as music does now, with the ability to resume like we can with videos now.
I think that this might be a nice addition for those of us who would like to relax or excercise in our movie room and perhaps listen to an audio book.
Is there any possibility for something of this type?
Thanks,
Mark
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I would be interested in having this as well
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daemox
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Just putting my name on the list of those who would likely use this if a developer gets interested in working on it.
As suggested above, I'm going to try just adding this into my current music section for now and see how that works out.
Thanks,
daemox