Spiracle Audiobooks

cheers dude. That feedback is really appreciated

@jonny - I'm not sure if it's a problem on my end or not but the discount code doesn't seem to work for some reason!

dude, that code expired at end of March. hang tight and will see what I can do for you. I certainly want to get an ongoing code for the forum

Ah no worries! My fault there. I'll be signing up anyway, happy to pay full price for what seems like a great service.

Just signed up, excited to get stuck in at work next week. Have sent it to a few friends as well.

very many thanks dude. enjoy!

Would highly recommend Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead by Olga Tokarczuk to anyone that's not read it before. One of my favourite books!

Amazing idea! signed up.
Am noticing a few issue with the iPhone player though. Seem to get logged out randomly and it loses my spot in the book.

many thanks for signing up dude. we are looking into that syncing issue on the app now. how random is random? is it logging you out while playing? or after being left idle for a while?

Seems to be after the phone is locked for a while. Error say the session has expired.

cheers dude. this then forces you to login to the app again, but the book is not synced to where you left off? got it

Yeah thats the one. Otherwise great product. Congrats!

I’m really enjoying this.

I don’t mind that the app is just a player. Simple is fine by me … but I do wonder if a button (through to the website) in the app would be a nice addition? Perhaps when you tap the Spiral (top left)? I think it’s probably common behaviour to check the player for downloaded books, then want to browse for more.

cheers for this excellent feedback dude.

we do have one button that goes through to a dedicated page on the website. it is a delicate balance as, for now at least, we have permission from Apple to link to the site but not to any pages that show transactional/commerical information - if we did then we have to pay a percentage to Apple. which as a start up we are keen to avoid for now. later of course we will hope we can change this. but that is aligned with growth of course.

you are totally right about expected behaviour though. so hopefully something we can address sooner rather than later.

Oh wow, I didn’t even consider that. Less money to apple and more towards independent publishers … sounds fine by me :)

Anyway of gifting a 'gift-card' so that someone can use it either toward a subscription or to buy a book one off?

that's a nice idea dude but not something we have currently implemented. it is possible to gift subscriptions or individual books. you can select 'gift' option at checkout and this will open up email field and message area that recipient sees. but I appreciate with regards subscriptions it does mean it starts at that point - rather then when the recipient engages with the email/site.

thanks though. will add it to pipeline

and just a little update for any of you that have downloaded the Spiracle Player App (in either iOS or Android) - we were aware of an issue with the synching of the book when you returned to the app. this has now been resolved so v1.1. of the app now available.

think time shortly up for being pinned to the homepage here. big thanks @Velocio and the rest of you that have got involved.

will keep thread updated with any big news and am always available via pm or in here if any questions, input, complaints, memes, etc.

Subscribed! Really enjoying it so far. Thanks!

@jonny - really enjoying the service so far. One issue I'm having is that when I re-open the app, the playback point is quite a bit behind where I was actually up to last time I was listening. I'm using Android if that makes any difference!

very many thanks!

we became aware of this issue and updated the app a few days ago. should have resolved it.

v1.1.1 in the App Stores. you will need to update if you haven't. but if you have already then we have a different problem. let me know and we will get it sorted out. cheers dude

Sorry, I missed your reply! I've not had a chance to listen since the update but will report back if I still have the issue.

Hey Jonny, sorry I'm slow to this. I Audiobook and def give it a go. The website looks ace.