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I created and maintain an audiobook iPhone app, Bound. I’ve been meaning to integrate LibriVox as a source but the API leaves a lot to be desired. Has anyone had experience with this? It seems like I should just use Archive.org as the source instead.

If anyone wants to check out my app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bound-audiobook-player/id10417...

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One of the first 100% SwiftUI apps I made to practice it was to build a librivox client.

Download the librivox iPhone client and use mitmproxy to see the endpoints it hits.

Oh yeah, looks like it hits https://librivox.app 's api (not the .org). Don't remember if there was/wasn't a relationship between the services. For all I know it's a full 3rd party content mirror.

Oh, this is a completely different entity.

Seems a bit hostile to sweep up the branding of librivox like that.

Their about page says that Archive.org hosts their audio files for free.

I’ve been using Bound for a couple years and I absolutely love it.

Looks great - but the App Store says it requires iOS13. iPhone 6 user so I’m stuck on iOS12 - I couldn’t see from the release notes when that change came in?

Bound was the best $4 I’ve spent on an app, thanks Tim.

Wow! Thank you for the compliment. I really appreciate it.

As an android user, I'm so jelly. Those screenshots look delicious, well done.

I feel like amazon literally hasn't bothered updating their UI since the 90s. I love audible, but god damn their UI is depressing and actually makes listening to audiobooks a worse experience. There's no better alternative either :(

I can recommend Voice https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.ph1b.audiob... which is open source!

I haven't done much comparison, but Smart Audiobook Player has always served me well.

Came here to say the same thing. Awesome app. Great to be freed from the shackles of Audible and the likes :)

Your app looks very interesting, thanks for sharing.

Kind of off topic, but is it possible to sync your current time with a cloud provider using this app?

At this time no. Audiobooks and their current progress are local to the device.

This is a fairly complicated feature to implement and I haven’t had a chance to do it yet.

Understandable, thanks

It seems like there are a lot of LibriVox items available as podcasts on iTunes. Maybe there are similar feeds you can use.

Your app is awesome. I use it every day. I really like the smooth streamlined interface. Thanks for your effort.

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