OK but DON’T force Apple Music Player!!! – Audiobook and Podcast Player Review

Update: Devs are responsive and looking into my issue. I continue to enjoy the app in its 'internal' mode. -——------------- I listen to audiobooks daily and while AudioChef if my default favorite, I continue to use and evaluate most of them including AC, iAudiobooks, Bookmobile, etc. Each has different strengths … and usually do about 7 out of the 10 things I want. This app, while not the most elegant, has some nice features and is quite useful and quick to use. However, as in older version reviews, I could not make it keep track, consistently with my listening position in a book. This of course, would make the app useless. While trying to use it, I’ve found that one of the settings forces the app to use the Apple Player instead of its own internal player. Somehow, using the Apple Player really messes up the apps ability to keep each books listen position straight consistently. In the Internal mode, it seems to do quite well. The only reason I can see to use the Apple Player is that it can speed scrub backwards where the internal can only do the more traditional skip. No Biggie. So, don’t write this app off until you’ve at least tried it using its internal player only. Worth the 0.99 in that case. Note that the problems I’ve had in the Apple Player mode were for books consisting of 5 M4b files each consisting of a “chapter". The app in that mode seems to jump into the wrong chapter randomly. If you build your books as one very large .m4b file, I suspect it would work ok in either mode though I’ve not tried it yet. As I said, I’ve written the Devs and lets see what happens. Certainly, I want to encourage anyone willing to write audiobook players since I’m still on a quest for the perfect one!
Review by RetiredGoose on Audiobook and Podcast Player.