That's an excellent question I've given absolutely no thought to. :-)
I suppose I was answering the way I usually do for music. But you're right.
That would not make sense.
Is there a free software audiobook format that remembers where the listener
last was and can skip there?
I know proprietary formats have this feature, but I'm not sure about free
software.
(Or is this feature in the player and not the format?)
Thanks for any advice.
I would think this is a feature of a player. What format are your books in?
For example the Music Player Daemon (MPD) remembers where you paused (or even
just closed, will resume play!) it.
In Trisquel, you can use the movie player and in preferences pick start
reproduction from last point. That should do what you want. As for portable
media players, they support that themselves.
Hope it helps =)
Some of the formats you can choose from:
FLAC (recommended - maximum compatibility, maximum quality)
Opus (recommended if low bitrate is the priority)
Ogg Vorbis (for general lossy audio coding, probably succeeded by Opus)
Speex (intended for lossy encoding of voice, succeeded by Opus)
Totem has
Exail can be set to do this, too.
Thanks guys.
I generally have used VLC, but I'll definitely try out Totem again (and MPD
again) for this purpose.
I like keeping things in FLAC myself if possible. I anticipate people will
one day be very sorry they have so much material in lossy formats.
Gracias.
As for audio playback, I can strongly recommend DeaDBeeF. If you previously
happened to use foobar2000 (proprietary freeware) on MS Windows/Woe, you can
know already how hard is living without it. This was one of my biggest
concerns when I moved to GNU/Linux after discovering the word GNU in
Why would lossless audio be necessary for audiobooks?
