[access-uk] Re: Changes to the Audible app

  • From: Yusuf Osman <yusuf.osman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 11:22:06 +0000

Thanks Ibrahim, What a fuss just to be able to delete a book. The Victor Stream 
makes you confirm twice that you want to delete something and Audible have made 
you jump through hoops to do the same.

Personally I don't tend to use the search facility as I prefer to browse 
through my titles and choose what I want to read that way. Thanks for the hint 
about flicking up and down to change pages. I'll definitely be writing to 
Audible about both of these as I think they've made the app harder to use than 
it needs to be.
Yusuf
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
Ibrahim Gucukoglu
Sent: 28 September 2014 12:09
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Changes to the Audible app

Hi Yusuf.

OK, to delete a book and it took me a while to figure this out, double tap 
on the title of the book and hold on the second tap until you here the three 
pip pass-through gesture sound.  Wiggle your finger about a bit as in the 
scrub gesture, this will bring up edit mode although nothing is spoken. 
Find the delete button next to the book you want to delete and double tap on 
this, you will then be asked whether you want to delete the book in the 
normal way.  What they've done is to make the app look alike on iPad and 
iPhone, so where as on the iPhone you had all the info as you describe in 
one block, you now have to swipe through the bits of info for each book. 
You can scroll pages in your library by three finger flick up and down and 
you can search your library too, so you can still easily enough find what 
you're looking for though I agree with you, they didn't need to fix what 
wasn't broken especially now removing books is a pane.

All the best, Ibrahim.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Yusuf Osman
Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2014 11:47 AM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Changes to the Audible app

I'm using the Audible app for IPhone and recently updated it. Previously the 
library used to contain the name of the book and the author as one thing 
that you could double tap on to download or start playing. Now they seem to 
have split all this information up so instead of a list of books that you 
could swipe through relatively easily, you now have to go through the 
following for each book, Delete, Alex Ferguson (unabridged), by Alex 
Ferguson, narrated by ..., progress %30, 6 hours 25 minutes left. I've got a 
large number of books in my library and this just adds ridiculous numbers of 
actions that I have to do just to reach the 5th or 6th title. Is there a way 
of getting rid of all this extra stuff? Or perhaps an easier way of moving 
through the library.

Secondly, the delete button doesn't appear to work, when I double tap on it, 
the book starts playing. Again, perhaps I'm missing something, can someone 
tell me how to remove a book from my IPhone.
Cheers
Yusuf
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