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Q: STOP Continuous play of Audiobooks

Hi,

 

When I play an audiobook on my iPod, it plays all subsequent audiobooks in the list. How do I stop that?

 

I'm not talking about continuing from one chapter to another, I'm talking continuing on to separate audiobooks. I play one and the next is played. Basically it can play for hours and hours and play through all my audiobooks without stopping.

 

How do I get it so that playback stops after an audiobook has ended?

iPod nano (4th generation), null

Posted on Jul 3, 2016 5:53 PM

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  • by turingtest2,

    turingtest2 turingtest2 Jul 4, 2016 7:54 AM in response to marketingenius
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    Jul 4, 2016 7:54 AM in response to marketingenius

    How are you selecting the book to play? If you're playing one item in a list where others are shown then that would seem to be the expected behaviour. You could potentially add to a playlist and play that so when your book is finished there are no other items.

     

    tt2

  • by marketingenius,

    marketingenius marketingenius Jul 4, 2016 10:05 AM in response to turingtest2
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    Jul 4, 2016 10:05 AM in response to turingtest2

    Hi tt2,

     

    To play the audiobook I go right into the audiobook itself but when it comes to an end, the next audiobook plays.

     

    Playlists might do it but I don't understand why the default is to play every audiobook one after the other? Is there really no way to have a hard stop after each audiobook?

  • by turingtest2,

    turingtest2 turingtest2 Jul 4, 2016 10:22 AM in response to marketingenius
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    Jul 4, 2016 10:22 AM in response to marketingenius

    I'd have to load up a couple of audiobooks on a nano to test it but I'd expect to be able to drill down via say Author > Book > File(s) and play a single book. Why not set up a sleep timer?

     

    tt2

  • by marketingenius,

    marketingenius marketingenius Jul 4, 2016 3:55 PM in response to turingtest2
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    Jul 4, 2016 3:55 PM in response to turingtest2

    There is no Book or Author option that I can see. This is how I do it: Audibooks > Audiobook title > Chapter 1 > Play. But it still plays all audiobooks continuously after finishing the current one.

     

    Thanks for the sleep timer suggestion - a good workaround. But is there really no way for audiobooks to stop. Surely by default it should stop? My albums don't continue playing one after the other. So why should audiobooks be any different?

  • by turingtest2,

    turingtest2 turingtest2 Jul 4, 2016 5:42 PM in response to marketingenius
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    Jul 4, 2016 5:42 PM in response to marketingenius

    Audiobooks play one at a time on my iPhone. I haven't used a non-iOS device for some time but I've just loaded up my wife's nano with three books, two of which are multipart, and I see the same thing you do, just as flat list of tracks that play one after another. See Audiobooks on iPods for my original approach to this issue (and the problem of getting chapters in the right order) nested playlists for authors and books.

     

    tt2

  • by MinnieMe,

    MinnieMe MinnieMe Aug 16, 2016 6:04 PM in response to marketingenius
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    Aug 16, 2016 6:04 PM in response to marketingenius

    Put the audiobooks (or maybe even chapters) into playlists.  Make sure it is not set for continous play or it will repeat the playlist