ABS-DA 2.5.6 — TV mode screen saver and both progress bars

A screen saver for TV mode, and both progress bars on Now Playing. 📺🌙

New

• Screen saver while listening (TV mode): while a book plays, 30 seconds after your last press the screen goes black with a dim card: the cover, chapter and book progress, time left and a big clock. The card moves to a new spot every 20 seconds, so nothing burns into your TV. Any button or key wakes it, and that press only wakes it, so you don’t click something by accident. Set it to Off, 30 s, 1, 2 or 5 min in TV mode’s ⚙ Settings, View → TV mode or Settings → Desktop App.

Improved

• Now Playing shows two progress bars: the chapter (time in it and time left of it) and the whole book (time / length, % and time left).

Translated into all 33 languages.

Updating

On 2.3.0 or newer? Click the Update button in the title bar, then Install now. 🚀 (Installer → installer, portable → portable, folder → folder.)

Download

File	For
ABS-DA-Setup-2.5.6.exe	Installer: updates older versions in place, your settings and login are kept
ABS-DA-Portable-2.5.6.exe	Single file, no install (see the tip below)
ABS-DA-Folder-2.5.6.zip	Folder version, no install: unzip into its own folder and run ABS Desktop App.exe

📁 Portable tip: make a folder for it first, for example C:\Tools\ABS-DA or Documents\ABS-DA, put the .exe in it and start it from there. The app keeps its settings, login and offline downloads in an abs-da-data folder next to the .exe. Then use App → Create Desktop Shortcut or pin it to the taskbar; updates keep the shortcut working. Don't run it straight from Downloads, the Desktop, or a OneDrive/Dropbox folder.

Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit).

"Windows protected your PC"? The app isn't code-signed yet. Click More info → Run anyway.