iOS 7 and Audiobook Chapters

Not fully right

iOS 4.1: best support of audiobooks on iPod, iPhone AND iPad. There was Chapterlist, chapterwise Scrubbing and chapternames in title on all devices

iOS 5.0: Apple merges chapters with same chaptername to One entry only on iOS, but not in iTunes nor QuickTime. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3466004

Losing chaptersupport on iPad. No chapterlist only Jump through chapters using foreward and backward.

iOS 5.1: losing individual chapternames see https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3788012

iOS 6: getting back individual chapternames, but iOS 5.0 feature are unfixed

iOS 7: losing chapterlist, chapterwise Scrubbing and chaptername in title (only First chaptername appended). Like iOS 5 for iPad

My three Bug Reports (one for each point) are canceled because duplicated to 150004321.

No Report to this on any News or Blogging Site.

I have no real confidence that our problem will be addressed with the next upgrade.

Some folks had battery life on MBP. nothing was fixed.

Right. If no Reports on News- and Blogging-Sites exists, Apple do Nothing.

Even back in the day when the iPad lost audiobook support there were news reports and blog comments on ZDNet and some others but the exposure led to no positive results.

Apple have rarely if ever repaired what they call minor bugs.

Many have reported both chapter and battery problems which over the various updates Apple have failed to fix.

So I am not holding my breathe with this one.

It always make me wonder how Apple Developers fail to notice this during development.

Many years ago I worked in product development and we used to used non techies to test the product was released. We

Used to say that they and not the engineers would find the bugs. They did.

Are Apple and others now using engineers to check on engineers and they cannot see the "wood for the trees".

I think it's been mentioned in this thread earlier that it would appear that this isn't considered a bug (minor or otherwise) the evidence is that these changes have been intentional. At this point the best that seems to be available is to encourage the developers that have put forward alternative apps and to perhaps goad others into providing high quality competitive apps.

I think the general consensus here has become, "This is not a bug." This change is deliberate, I for one believe. Apple struck a deal with Audible.com. All audiobooks available in the iTunes store come from Audible, not from the publishers. Audible's app downloads and manages the book, and displays chapters with scrubbing like Apple's music app used to. Neither company wants individuals to be able to make their own audiobooks (via CDs from the library, for example); there's no profit in that. Apple has had thousands of complaints about this and has not ackknoledged the problem, which for them is not a problem. It's not going to be corrected.

My solution: find an older iPod Touch on ebay that diesn't support iOS7. Use it instead of your iPhone for audiobooks. But don't get the fiurst gen, since it lacks bluetooth.

Again, it is the consumer pays.

William said: "Apple struck a deal with Audible.com. All audiobooks available in the iTunes store come from Audible, not from the publishers. Audible's app downloads and manages the book, and displays chapters with scrubbing like Apple's music app used to."

Audible=Amazon, they will release (next month) an alternative Smart-Phone with their own OS - so why should we use any device from Apple any longer?

We will see 🙂

My holiday is ruined, thanks to being about 3 hours into a good book, ready to start the next work task, and all of a sudden the book started over. NO way to advance chapter by chapter. FIX IT, APPLE!!!!!!!

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It's not broken if it's working the way Apple intended. Since it still is working the same way on iOS 8, it's the way they intended it to be.

What is it that you don't understand about the term "Non-disclosure agreement"?

You replied to me accidentally?

I'm not a beta tester and I'm not running the beta,