App 2.5.0

AudioSilo 2.5 lets you read a book's ebook as well as listen to it. These notes cover everything since app 2.0.0, the version Google Play still serves.

Android: install from GitHub

Install the attached AudioSilo-2.5.0.apk directly, or follow this repository in Obtainium for updates. The Google Play and GitHub versions are signed differently, so one can't install over the other: uninstall the Play version first. That removes your downloads and the app's sign-in, so you'll sign in again; your listening progress stays on your server. Details: Android without Google Play.

New in 2.5

• Read the ebook: when a book has its EPUB beside the audio, open it in the app. Turn pages with a tap or a swipe, jump to a chapter from Contents, and change the text size
• Your reading place follows you between the app and the web player on every device. If another device read further, choose Jump or Stay
• Downloaded books take their ebook along, so you can read offline; pages read offline sync when you're back
• Reading and listening keep separate places, so one never moves the other
• Books in .mka files (MP3 inside) play and download
• Book folders your server hasn't scanned yet open as books in Folders, marked "Not scanned yet", and play straight away
• Clearer sign-in messages: a wrong name or password, an invite that's used up or expired, how long to wait after too many tries
• The app asks before removing a server, and names a server that's down instead of just saying offline
• A link to a book that isn't on your server says so, with Back and Home
• An admin signing in to a new, empty server is pointed to the setup in the admin console
• Downloading again right after a cancel works
• Fixes: an episode's title shows once in the player bar; a book that fails to start keeps your place and says why; "2 days ago" follows the app's language; scrubbing near the end of a short book

Since 2.0

2.4

• Podcasts: browse your server's shows, follow them, and find new episodes on Home. Play any episode, even one your server hasn't downloaded yet
• Add shows by directory search, a feed's address (private feeds stay private) or an import from another podcast app; export your shows; check a show for new episodes
• Books show their subtitle, genres and tags, and the Library filters by genre or tag
• Admins can have their server write characters and recaps for a book the community hasn't covered, marked "Generated on this server"
• Scanning an invite QR code takes you straight to signing in
• Starting a book from its page takes it off Up next
• An ended sign-in shows "Sign in again" with Reconnect, and a slow moment no longer marks a server offline
• CarPlay: your books on the car's screen, with chapters and bookmarks (iPhone)

2.1

• Android Auto: your books on the car's screen, with chapters, bookmarks and voice play (Android)
• Smart speed skips silences and shows the time saved (Android); Voice boost makes quiet voices clearer
• The lock screen shows the chapter, with next and previous chapter (iPhone)
• A Continue listening widget and a sleep timer Live Activity (iPhone)
• Profiles: several people on one device, with "Who's listening?" and an optional PIN
• Kids mode: big tiles, a simple player and a bedtime sleep timer
• Household members: add kids and grown-ups as accounts from the app, sharing everything or chosen collections
• Listening in the house: opt in to see what the rest of the household is playing
• Chromecast
• At home, the app connects to a server on its own self-signed certificate with no setup
• A book in several series shows on each series' page, numbered there; an omnibus shows as #1-3
• Community chapters are labelled, and downloaded books pick up changed chapters

Server versions

• Reading, .mka books and unscanned folders: server 2.5 or later. The ebook must be an EPUB without DRM
• Podcasts, and generated characters and recaps: server 2.4 or later with a Bridge. Genres and tags: server 2.4
• Household members, listening in the house, Chromecast, omnibus numbers and connecting at home on a self-signed server: server 2.3
• Books in several series and community chapters: server 2.1

On an older server these features stay hidden and the rest works as before.

Server release: https://github.com/KodeStar/audiosilo-server/releases/tag/v2.5.0