ShelfPlayer User Reviews

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Gut

Also funktioniert bei mir sehr gut. Bestimmt ne Menge Arbeit, danke dafür

Finally fixed the background crashing, but many other issues added in the process

Previous update finally solved the background crashing issue, but caused numerous other issues.

1. Trying to play a completed episode without first explicitly resetting progress causes an instant crash

2. If you have used the sleep timer, you must set to random value, then cancels, then set again. Otherwise it will show a negative number in the thousands and prevent podcasts from playing

3. The latest field has disappeared from CarPlay with no discernible way to get it back.

4. Double click AirPods no longer skips forward, but instead SKIPS TO THE NEXT EPISODE unlike every other audio app in existence. There seems to be no way to change this

5. The currently playing display at the bottom of the screen with occasionally stop working and require a force close

6. Occasionally will crash when queueing multiple episodes

To users - maybe just use plappa. It’s clunky and less pretty, but it actually works consistently

To the dev - maybe layoff the vibes. Random things are breaking and changing in every update. Kinda bums me out
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Response from developer

Should be fixed in version 3.2.1

Works great when it works

I’m really happy overall with ShelfPlayer as it manages my audiobooks via audiobookshelf running on my Linux server. The problem is, it occasionally starts the book from the beginning. This isn’t a huge deal for shorter books, but I’m listening to 1000+ page books over the course of weeks/months and it takes a long long time of skipping around in the audio book to find my place. Infuriating.


Edit: seems fixed
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Response from developer

Should be fixed in version 3.2.1

Been my primary audiobook player

I’m at a period of life where reading books is difficult. I listen to books almost constantly. I have a half dozen audiobook apps and this one is my go to. I have multiple long series that I enjoy re-listening to, and this is a simple way to do that.

Good ABS App

This is my preferred Audiobookshelf app. I particularly like the integration with Shortcuts.

Very promising, very buggy

Unlike Plappa, this runs on everything Apple - iOS, iPadOS, MacOS and provides better UI experience. Unfortunately, critical bugs won’t let me switch away from Plappa. The biggest one is inability to present all books from an author. Say I have 16 books of Dan Simmons. ShelfPlayer shows 16 as a counter of all books from Dan Simmons, but only subset is shown in the actual book list… that’s a hard stop, critical issue for me
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A terrible update.

A terrible update. I can no longer see the chapter information in individual music files, and there are also some playback crashes.

Wonderful

This the most elegant and beautiful app I have ever used. The attention to details is amazing when is coming to both functionality and design.

Abstürze!!!

Seit dem letzten Update startet die App gar nicht mehr sondern stürzt direkt wieder ab. Zuvor war ich eigentlich recht zufrieden aber seit heute geht nichts mehr! Bitte bald möglichst nachbessern!!!

Response from developer

Ist in Update 3.2.1 behoben

Great except critical pain point

This app does a lot of things great except for loosing my position in my book every few days leaving me to manually find it again, which is very frustrating.

I will come back and see if things have improved in a few months but for now will use a different player with ABS.

Response from developer

Should be fixed in version 3.2.1

Unusable

This is so bad and unusable. Learn how to sync. You have literally one job and that’s to remember where i left off.

Overall great, but keeps losing my progress

I like everything about this app, except there’s a few UC oddities, such as preferences/settings being behind the bookmark icon.

The dealbreaker is that it keeps losing my progress. I’ll have 2-3 good listening sessions and boom, book restarts when I resume. ABS knows my progress, I checked, so why does this client keep restarting?

Fix this and my review goes straight to 4 or 5.
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Response from developer

I am working on a fix and it should be ready soon!

Constant crashing on latest update

Crashes in the background constantly after the last update. Can’t make it through whole podcast before it crashes. Happens in offline mode as well

Beste App, aber Bugs...

Neben Plappa die beste App, leider gibt es momentan viele Bugs.
- Car Play geht nicht. Zeigt meistens nur einen leeren Bildschirm
- Offline mode (benutze ich sehr intensiv) geht nach einiger Zeit nicht mehr, der Player hängt dann beim Abspielen ohne Ton. Dann muss man kurz online gehen und erst dann geht es weiter mit dem Buch
- hin und wieder vergisst der Player die Abspiel position und fängt immer von vorne an
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Response from developer

Sollte in Version 3.2.1 behoben sein.

Unstable

Unfortunately horribly unstable even in offline mode, particularly with car play. Can go weeks without issues and then suddenly refuse to display anything or even play an audio book even if it’s on the phone and it’s been downloaded.

Loading locally downloaded books.

I love the app. This is not a criticism but a bug. I think we need an option to load fully downloaded books without the need for the book trying to “handshake” the server I assume for keeping your place across different devices. Some times they fail to load until you turn off Wi-Fi. I’ve already got cellular data turned off to try and prevent this but the Wi-Fi will still cause it. We just need an option to say “I’m already downloaded I only use this device - I don’t need to talk to the server” so it loads immediately.
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Response from developer

Should be fixed in 3.2.0!

Off-line mode broken

Off-line mode broken and the developer has an addressed it after being notified of the issue on a support forum. Can’t recommend this app until that is fixed. When you try to open and play a book off-line, it just hangs.

Works great when it works

I’m really happy overall with ShelfPlayer as it manages my audiobooks via audiobookshelf running on my Linux server. The problem is, it occasionally starts the book from the beginning. This isn’t a huge deal for shorter books, but I’m listening to 1000+ page books over the course of weeks/months and it takes a long long time of skipping around in the audio book to find my place. Infuriating.
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Große Empfehlung für Audiobookshelf-Nutzer!

Eine wunderschön gestaltete App um Audiobookshelf-Inhalte (vorhandene Podcasts/Audiobooks) auf iOS Geräten wiederzugeben. Neue technische iOS Funktionen sind sehr liebevoll umgesetzt.

Eine der sehr, sehr wenigen Apps der letzten Jahre, die nahezu instant gekauft wurden. Top! Weiter so!

Ich höre jeden Tag auf dem Weg zur Arbeit Podcasts über CarPlay und finde es seht cool, dass ich ShelfPlayer gefunden habe.

Einige Feinheiten gibt es bestimmt noch zu verbessern, aber welche Software ist schon fertig ;-)

Wenn du Bedarf, an einem TestFlight-User hast, melde dich gerne.

In GitHub solltest ich zu finden sein.
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Doesnt work offline

This just sits at loading when i try to play audiobooks I’ve downloaded offline, if im connected to my local network it works but offline play is what i bought this for. Unacceptable