9 posts tagged with "plappa"

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

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

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

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”

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

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

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)

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

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