AudioAnchor

Android audio player that tracks the listening progress of your audio books and podcasts.

Features

AudioAnchor offers a clean and intuitive interface for listening to audio files while keeping track of listening progress.

Additional features include:

Set bookmarks
Adjust playback speed
Export and import listening progress as SQL database
Sleep timer
Lock screen media controls (for Android 5.0 Lollipop and higher)

Installation

The best way is to install F-Droid on your Android device, search for AudioAnchor, and install the app from there. This way, AudioAnchor will automatically be kept up to date on your device.\ Alternatively, you can download the latest apk from F-Droid (or from releases) and execute it on your device.\ The latest release runs on devices with Android API level 19 (Android 4.4 KitKat) and higher.

Usage

Start off by adding directories to your library. When adding a new directory you have two options:

You can add a directory that contains audio files
You can add a directory that contains subdirectories which contain audio files

For example, you might have a directory Podcast History Hour that contains audio files. Add this directory to your library using the option Add directory that contains audio files. Additionally, you might have a directory AudioBooks that contains subdirectories such as The Hobbit or Harry Potter II each of which contains one or several audio files. You can add this directory to your library using the option Add directory with subdirectories that contain audio files.\ This prevents you from having to add your audio books one by one.

Add cover images to the subdirectories to have a neat looking app as shown in the screenshots below.

Browse and play your audio files just as you would in any other audio player.

Permissions

AudioAnchor asks for the following permissions:

Read external storage (to play audio files)
Write external storage (to export the listening progress)
Read phone state (to pause the audio during a call)

License

Copyright © 2018-2024 Natalie Prange

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

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