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· One min read
Leo Wehrfritz

New Features:

  • Added playback history
  • Playback history is now synced with your ABS server
  • Added "smart rewind"
  • Added filter options for downloaded and played books
  • Added option to disable display sleep while playing
  • Added absolute seekbar option
  • Added total remaining time to player and detail views

Changes:

  • Reworked download handling
  • plappa will no longer index ebooks without audio
  • "Shake to extend sleep timer" now also works when the device is locked and restarts sleep timers
  • Fixed an issue causing plappa to crash or pause playback when moving to the background
  • Fixed an issue causing plappa to crash when fetching server side deletions
  • Fixed an issue causing plappa to stream downloaded books in some cases
  • Fixed an issue causing plappa to send playbackstates for deleted books to ABS
  • Tapping a tab the second time now moves back to the root of that tab
  • Fixed an issue causing up next not to show in the player in some cases
  • Added placeholder images for books without covers
  • Smaller UI fixes and improvements

· One min read
Leo Wehrfritz

New Features:

  • Added an “up next”-queue
  • Added support for playlists
  • Added bookmarks to now playing view
  • Added support for shortcuts
  • Added option to send definable headers with all network requests
  • Added option to automatically reset sleep timer when resuming playback
  • Added sleep timer option for end of next chapter

Changes:

  • Improved performance in all lists, especially collections and series
  • Fixed a bug causing audiobooks to incorrectly appear as played in ABS
  • Fixed an issue causing certain file formats not to play with ABS (OPUS and WAV)
  • Fixed an issue causing plappa incorrectly assuming a file is not playable
  • The remaining time displayed in the player now respects the playback speed

· One min read
Leo Wehrfritz

New Features:

  • Added German translation
  • Added option to automatically skip back on interruptions (like calls or navigation instructions)
  • Custom chapters in ABS are now respected
  • Added support for dark and tinted app icons with iOS 18
  • Added chapter list to CarPlay interface

Changes:

  • Big under the hood changes for handling chapters and playback progress
  • Fixed downloads getting stuck when plappa is moving to the background
  • “Back” button now skips to beginning of the current chapter instead of the last one
  • Fixed an issue causing podcast episodes not to load when “pubDate” is null
  • Improved reliability of progress tracking in multiple places
  • Improved reliability with CarPlay
  • Fixed an issue causing chapter numbers to be displayed incorrectly for large numbers

· One min read
Leo Wehrfritz

New Features:

  • Added narrators tab
  • Added swipe down gesture to dismiss player
  • Added sorting for podcast episodes

Changes:

  • Performance improvements for larger libraries
  • Fixed an issue causing finished audiobooks to appear unplayed after restarting plappa
  • Fixed an issue causing audiobooks made up of multiple m4b files to receive duplicate track numbers
  • Removed 14 day limit for “Where you left off”

· One min read
Leo Wehrfritz

New Features:

  • Added customizable tabs and a series tab for ABS
  • Added support for SSO with ABS

Changes:

  • Improved CarPlay usability, sync reliability on startup
  • Improved performance when dragging down the now playing view
  • Chapters in the now playing view now automatically scroll to the currently playing chapter
  • Improved error messages for failed logins

· One min read
Leo Wehrfritz

Changes:

  • Fixed incompatibility with AudioBookShelf 2.9.0
  • Fixed an issue causing skips not to work
  • Fixed an issue causing the bookmark UI to show white text on white background
  • You can now delete bookmarks
  • Improved handling of chapters (this should fix chapters sometimes appearing out of order)
  • Improved chapter end sleep timer
  • Fixed an issue causing skips to be executed multiple times while paused
  • Fixed playback resumption after interruptions not working in some cases
  • Improved debug logging

· One min read
Leo Wehrfritz

New Features:

  • Added customizable playback rates, sleep timers and skip times

Changes:

  • Outdated items will now be automatically removed from plappa (unless they’re downloaded)
  • Playback will now automatically resume after interruptions
  • Fixed an issue causing podcasts and episodes not to load correctly for some users
  • Added new sorting options for podcasts, books and authors
  • Fixed an issue causing hardware pause/skip keys (on headphones/cars) not to work
  • Fixed an issue causing the CarPlay interface not to properly update when switching chapters
  • Added additional info to CarPlay “now playing” view
  • Fixed an issue causing some playback rates to be displayed incorrectly
  • Improved performance for collection views (recently added, reading list and such)

· One min read
Leo Wehrfritz

This is the first update for the release version of plappa! It mainly contains fixes for the bugs all of the new users have found.

A bigger update with some of the requested features will come later.

New Features:

  • Added sleep timer for end of chapter

Changes:

  • Fixed broken navigation on older versions of iOS
  • Searching for podcasts no longer crashes the app
  • Changed playbackmode to "spokenAudio" to improve interruption handling
  • Playback rate now persists when reopening plappa
  • Server address field is no longer cleared after interacting with system modals (like password managers)
  • Added option to log in without a password
  • Fixed close button for debug logs view
  • Clarified wording on In-App-purchase view

· One min read
Leo Wehrfritz

plappa meets TestFlight

This is the first release of plappa for TestFlight.

Main features of this version:

  • Connect to a Jellyfin server
  • View audiobooks and authors
  • Download and listen to audiobooks
  • Sync playback state via iCloud