Big Finish Audiobook Player

Submitted by alex wallis on Friday, May 13, 2016.
Last modified
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Category
Books

Description of App

Official Big Finish - Audiobook and Audio Drama Player

The best way to listen to your Big Finish audio books on your iOS device.

Download and store your library of Big Finish audio files on your Apple device. Listen to great stories from the following ranges wherever your are: Doctor Who, Sherlock Holmes, Blake's 7, Dark Shadows, 2000 AD (Judge Dredd and Strontium Dog), Terrahawks, The Avengers, The Prisoner, Torchwood, Survivors, The Omega Factor and more.

Features

Download audio files direct to your Apple device.
View a list of all your available audiobooks.
Play each chapter in an audiobook in sequence or choose your starting chapter.
Skip and scrub between chapters.
Listen to your audiobooks while using other apps.
Remembers playback position.
Filter your purchases by title, release date and purchase date.

WiFi is recommended when downloading large audio files. Downloading files over data connection may incur a cost from your telecommunications provider.

Version

2.0.3

Free or Paid

Free

Apple Watch Support

No

iOS Version

9.3.1

Device(s) App Was Tested On

iPhone

Accessibility Comments

fully accessible

VoiceOver Performance

VoiceOver reads all page elements.

Button Labeling

All buttons are clearly labeled.

Usability

The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver and is easy to navigate and use.

Other Comments

Please note that this is an app designed to play audio books purchased from the drama company big finish productions, I believe it can't be used to play your own books. the idea is its much easier to used to play mp3s you purchase from them than having to download to your computer then import through iTunes. As such you do have to have a big finish account to use this app and have actually bought some stuff. You can't purchase through the app you must do that from there website. The app doesn't support trailers or other media they put out, the best way to keep track of that is to use soundcloud.

App Store Link

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/big-finish-audiobook-player/id916775545?mt=8

Developer's Twitter Username

@bigfinish
Related Apple Watch App Directory entry
http://www.bigfinish.com

Recommendations

1 people have recommended this app

Most recently recommended by alex wallis 5 years 5 months ago

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Comments

Submitted by David on Saturday, May 14, 2016

Since with Big Finish, if you buy CD releases, you also get DRM-free digital downloads for free, this is great for all the purchases, even those released before the app was available.

My one suggestion to the developer is that it would be good if it remembered the sort sequence you selected between sessions. At present, each time I open the app,it defaults to ascending alphabetic order. As I've got well over 300 titles in my list, I prefer to sort them by descending release date so I get the new ones at the top as they come out.

Submitted by alex wallis on Saturday, May 14, 2016

I would say comments like that should be emailed to them, as doubt they check or know about applevis, not that they would nee to check it given that the app is fully accessible.

Odddly enough, I just found today that it is remembering my filters on startup now. So I've obviously been missing updates for a while for some reason. Everything's set to automatically update, so no idea why that was. But thanks for the change as it makes it so much easier to use.

Looking forward to the day when we can play by streaming direct from the server... assuming it hasn't been added already and I'm just way behind on updates. ;-)