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by eXpl0it3r 2344 days ago
What do you use to listen to audio books files? Some normal audio player is rather cumbersome, due to missing progress tracking.
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On Android, we have a nice FOSS choice named "Voice", an unfortunate name collision with Google Voice making it hard to find. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.ph1b.audiob...

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.ph1b.audiobook/

For android I use "Listen Audiobook Player". Automatic progress tracking for multiple books, and generally all round great for daily audiobook usage.
I also use Listen Audiobook Player [1]. Loaded with well thought out features. The app also saves your progress/stats in a json file in your audiobooks directory, so you can easier move it to a new phone/tablet whenever you want.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.acmeandroi...

I really like Smart Audio Book Player. It is freemium. I think I don't need any the premium features, but I liked so much the usability of the app that I paid for it.
On iOS, searching by title in Overcast's turns up Loyal Books' index of free written and audio books, which seems to have the RSS feeds for the LibriVox audio books.

http://www.loyalbooks.com

on desktop, vlc

on mobile, vlc