iOS 8.4 Audiobooks Issues

That would automatically save the position in my beta of Undulib.

If you're interested in testing it out, you can join the beta group. Just send an email to contact@undulib.com😉

Hi,

I tried to email you at contact@undulib.com and the email bounced: Recipient address rejected: user contact@undulib.com does not exist.

Thanks,

Kevin

I apologize.

I should have said support@undulib.com

You can find more info at http://undulib.com

I'm having crazy issues listening to audiobooks in iBooks on my iPhone 6s running the latest version of iOS (currently 9.2). Here are the issues I'm currently facing:

• Some audiobooks will not remember their position correctly when I pause and come back to the app. Usually when I hit play again the audiobook has jumped back in time a minute or two, sometimes it jumps back significantly, like 5-10 minutes. I have to use the +15 second button to find my place again.
• Some audiobooks reach the end of the scrub bar before they actually finish playing. This one is kind of hard to describe... basically if I start an audiobook from the beginning then scrub to the very end of the bar, it's actually still in the middle of the audio. If I let iBooks keep playing the audio will keep going but the scrub bar is stuck at the end.
• Some audiobooks won't allow me to scrub through them at all, or will only let me scrub to a certain point and will always snap back to the beginning or a very early part of the file.

All of these files are MP3s created with Audiobook Builder or a similar program that splices together MP3s called MP3 Trimmer. They don't have any chapter markers and they have very basic metadata (art, title, author, etc.). They work perfectly in the latest version of iTunes on my Mac running the latest version of OS X.

I have tried using a few of the apps mentioned in this thread, including Undulib, Audible, and Audiobook Browser. All of them exhibit the same behavior. That leads me to believe there might be a problem with my files, but that doesn't explain how they work perfectly in iTunes.

It seems the issues with iBooks were fixed with a lot of people after upgrading to iOS 9, but I'm still having these crazy problems. Help!

Josh, I'm one of the originators of this thread, and my problems were finally fixed when 9.1 was released. I find iBooks to be working fine now. That leads me to think the problem is with your files, as you also seem to have concluded. Have you tried changing the media type in iTunes to see if that fixes the problem? Right-click on a title in iTunes, choose Get Info, and from the resulting dialog box click the Options tab. Change the media type from Audiobook to Music. Then resync your phone. That will move the file back to Music and out of iBooks. Does the problem still occur?

If it does, you might consider backing up your phone to either iCloud or your computer and doing a restore. It's possible that there was a hiccup in the software upgrade that caused this problem and, hopefully, a restore from iTunes will fix it.