Sansa Fuze: Separate audiobook dealing

[Xbertl]

Hello,

I think it would be good if the dealing with audiobook is separated from the normal playback.
For example it sucks if you forgot to deactivate Shuffle when you listen to a audiobook.

[AlexP]

Audiobooks are just an audio file, same as anything else.  Why should they get special handling?

[Xbertl]

Like in the original firmware.
You drop the audiobook files in a seperate folder and now the software knows that it is an audiobook.
And you have a seperate audiobook menu item in the database of the original firmware where  the files from the audiobook folder are listed

[saratoga]

Like in the original firmware.
You drop the audiobook files in a seperate folder and now the software knows that it is an audiobook.
And you have a seperate audiobook menu item in the database of the original firmware where  the files from the audiobook folder are listed

Since Rockbox already has a file browser, if you put all your audio books in an audiobooks folder, then you can view them from there.

[AlexP]

Or set the genre tag and use the database to do the same thing.

[Xbertl]

Yes, as i described in my post not the folder is the problem, the problems are things like shuffle and so.
It's not a thing what you absolutely need, it's simply very useful.

[Chronon]

You can exclude your audiobook folder from the random-folder-advance list and prevent it from being indexed in the database if you prefer that.  This is what I do with my audiobooks.  I don't find it too troublesome to select an audiobook from the file browser on those occasions that I want to listen to one.