Play / Pause Timeline Sync Problem

[cosmobooker]

I've noticed that when I pause a chapter of any given book, the app will sometimes jump the audio back a few seconds while the place in the timeline stays the same.

Ex: Chapter is 1:00:00 long, I pause at 00:30:00, I wait a minute or so, I play the chapter, the timeline continues counting up (00:30:01, etc.) but the audio is now around 10 seconds behind (equivalent to 00:29:50). I pause again, wait, play, now the audio is only around 5 seconds behind. Repeat until the play / pause cycle is instant and not delayed.

I noticed this as I like to pause at the end of paragraphs and often when I hit play, the stream will be in the last sentence or two of the paragraph instead of the end.

I expect it to play / pause like a regular music player, never separating the timeline from the actual relevant audio position. I could understand if this is a feature to allow you to be reminded of your place in the text with a few seconds of audio, but if that's the case, the timeline should reflect this (and there would hopefully be a setting to disable that feature).

Apologies for my lack of proper terminology, it's a weird issue to describe. Love the app btw!

[flackbash]

Glad you like the app :)

There is a similar issue described in #17. Can you check if your files have a variable bit rate? In that case this is a known issue, but also as far as I know an unsolvable one unless I completely ditch the Android MediaPlayer which AudioAnchor uses internally. Instead you'd have to convert your files to constant bit rate.

[cosmobooker]

While #17 does sound like the same / a very similar issue, it doesn't seem to be related to whether a given .mp3 is encoded with a CBR vs a VBR. To check, I took one of the chapters I was experiencing with, ran it through an .mp3 re-encoder, and spat it out with one of their constant bitrate options, the same issue still occured.

[cosmobooker]

Also, not sure if this helps, but you can sometimes see this when finishing a chapter. The playtime will run past the stated length of the audio file.

[fabiomus]

Hello, first of all thank you so much for the amazing application! I've been using it for quite a while and I love it! I'm sure you spent a lot of time to make it and I really appreciate it!

However, I've too experienced all the issues described here.
I'm quite sure my audio files don't have a variable bit rate, so it must be something else.
Have you looked into it and found anything? Have you been able to reproduce the problem?