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Key Details of Ambling BookPlayer Lite

  • Listen to thousands of free and best selling audio books, and never lose your place again.
  • Last updated on
  • There have been 4 updates
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    Clean (it’s extremely likely that this software program is clean)


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Editors’ Review

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AmblingBooks.com is a purveyor of audiobooks, but it doesn't expect you to listen to its wares with just any old media player. Ambling BookPlayer Lite is a media player made especially for audiobooks. This free version of the player only lets you listen to audiobooks you've downloaded from AmblingBooks.com, so don't expect to use it with books you've acquired from other sources. But if you're already a fan of AmblingBooks or you want to try out this free edition before investing in one of the two paid ones, this program is worth a try.

The program's interface is sleek and minimalist, with tabs for the player, your library, adding books, and settings. We quickly created an AmblingBooks.com account and set about downloading one of the free offerings; it has quite a few public domain classics available at no charge. We selected Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" and clicked the download button; the file opened automatically with Ambling BookPlayer Lite and the program downloaded all 61 separate chapters of the book, displaying them as one file. The player has options to skip forward and backward between chapters and to rewind or fast-forward either 15 seconds or 1 minute at a time. The program also saves the last five play positions in each book, making it easier to get back to where you were if you somehow lose your place. The program has no Help file, but this isn't a significant drawback; its limited features make it pretty easy to use. Overall, we found Ambling BookPlayer Lite to be a good option for playing audiobooks; we liked that it has features specially suited to book listening, and its attractive interface is easy to navigate and nice to look at.

What’s new in version 1.04

Now supports a time limited trial for playing any audiobooks on your local computer.


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Full Specifications

GENERAL
Release
Latest update
Version
1.04
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Platform
Windows
Operating System
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 10
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows NT
  • Windows 7
  • Windows 98
  • Windows ME
  • Windows 2003
  • Windows XP
  • Windows Server
Additional Requirements
Requires Java 1.6 or higher on your Windows computer
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Listen to thousands of free and best selling audio books, and never lose your place again.
The premium player for listening to audiobooks. Download thousands of free audio books from AmblingBooks.com or purchase best selling mp3 audio book titles. Never lose your place in an audiobook again thanks to the undo/redo bookmarking system. Unlike music players which include audio book functionality as an add on, the Ambling BookPlayer is designed from the ground up to be an audiobook player. The Ambling BookPlayer offers unique features designed to make audio book listening easy, frustration-free and uncomplicated for everyone: Never lose your place again. Fully automatic bookmarking for every book, with a revolutionary intelligent bookmark history system that lets you undo or redo any change in your listening position. You can also view and return to multiple previous listening positions, effortlessly returning exactly to your past points of listening. Audio file management is completely automatic and hidden. All audio file transitions are seamless and invisible, and can even occur mid-chapter without you being aware of the transition. For books downloaded using the player you don't ever need to know the names of the audio files, how many there are, or which file is currently playing. * Enjoy content using familiar Chapter divisions, not arbitrary file limits. Navigate and track your current position in both the chapter and the book. The library provides an uncluttered view of your Books (not the files). It plays the books in a series in the correct sequence. The clean interface is focused on audiobook listening. Quickly jump back when you need to listen to something again. Finding and listening to good audiobooks is simple and easy. You pick the book and the player automatically downloads it from the AmblingBooks.com site ready for listening.

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