FAQs

Audiobook Pop! develops simple, easy and intuitive mobile device applications. We make it easy, hassle free and affordable to listen to quality audiobooks on the go. Our apps let you listen to audiobooks from your iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad (Android version and other mobile devices coming soon). Road trips, waiting rooms, carpool – any time is a great time to listen to classic books.

As long as there is a Wi-Fi connection or 3G/4G/EDGE, Audiobook Pop! apps will work on your iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. The Android version is coming next.

Install Audiobook Pop! app on your device through the iTunes App Store.  When you press the Audiobook Pop! app icon on the home screen you will be directed to a search, including choices by title, author, narrator and duration. You could also type in a keyword. After a prompt from the app to refine your selection, a list of books will appear based on your criteria. Once you click on the book of your choice, it will begin playing and the tracks will be downloaded to your device as you listen.

In order to deliver an uninterrupted playback of the audiobook, Audiobook Pop! apps store the media on your device, eliminating potential network issues that would affect the steady playback.  When you are done with the audiobook, you can go to “My Library” to delete it.

Current Audiobook Pop! apps are dedicated to iOS platform (a version suitable for Android and other mobile devices coming soon). The apps were tested on and developed for iOS version 4.3 and above.

Yes, you can do a search or browse our list of audiobooks while you are listening to another.

To pause a book, press the pause button at the bottom center of the player in the “Now Playing” screen. When a book is paused, the pause button will turn into a play button. Press this play button when you are ready to resume listening.

The volume bar is the horizontal bar at the bottom of the player. Drag the circle on the bar left or right, or raise your mobile device volume level to set the volume. Volume can only go as high as the current volume settings on your device allow. Change the volume settings on your device to enable Audiobook Pop! apps to play at a greater volume.

“My Library” consists of all of the books that you have selected up to that point. Once a book is selected, it is automatically added to “My Library” and the media is downloaded to your device.

As soon as you select a book by clicking on its name, it will begin to download to your device and will automatically be added to “My Library.”

You can add as many books as Audiobook Pop! apps offer OR as much storage space as your device will allow. Remember to keep tabs on how much space you have on your device so that it doesn’t get overloaded.

Go to “My Library” and press the “Edit” button in the upper right hand corner. Then press the red circle with the x symbol that appears to the right of the book you want to remove, then press “Delete”.

Any book that you have listened to will be in “My Library,” unless you delete it. Any book that you listen to automatically downloads to your device.

Hit the “Now Playing” button. Toward the bottom right of the screen, you will see two arrows pointed to the right. Touch these arrows for as many tracks as you want to skip.

If you close the Audiobook Pop! application while playing a book, it will remember where you stopped listening. The next time you select that audiobook, it will pick up right where you left off. If you pause the book before you quit the app, it will remember where you were in the book, next time you listen.

If you go to “My Library,” the books are listed in the order in which you most recently listened.

If you have Multi-tasking capabilities on your device (iOS4 users) and you switch to another non-voice application without closing Audiobook Pop! app, the audiobook will play in the background.

If you get a phone call or message alert, the app will pause and then resume playing the book when the incoming call or message alert ends.

In order for your selection to resume when you launch the application, you need go to the “Settings” section and put “Auto Resume Player” to ON. The default is OFF. If “Auto Resume Player” is ON, when you reopen the application, the book that was playing when you closed will restart automatically.

Fast forward navigation lets you forward to the next track only if the chapter has already downloaded to your device. Depending on your Wi-Fi connection, it might take a few moments.

If the network connection is disrupted or if you have low or bad reception, the “now playing” tracks will show this error. Please check your mobile device connection settings to make sure you have network connection.

Use the “Home” button located on the left side of the bottom navigation bar. In the search field on the home screen, input either the title of the book you are looking for or keywords associated with the content. You can also search by other filters.

If you search for content you want on Audiobook Pop! app and find that we don’t carry it, feel free to put in a request. Please remember that all of our content comes from LibriVox – so if it’s not there, we won’t have it either. Send us an email or use the “Support / Feedback” feature of the application in the “Settings” section.

• Double tap the Home button on your device to bring up the Multitasking bar
• Press and hold anywhere on the multitasking bar until the icons on it start to wiggle.
• While they are wiggling, each icon has a Minus sign symbol above it.
• Press the Minus symbol above any app to close it down.

Please, let us know about any problems that you’re having. Send us a message or use the “Support / Feedback” feature in “Settings.” We promise to respond quickly.

We pull our content exclusively from LibriVox. If you go to their website and search their catalog, you will be able to find all of our books. You’ll need speakers for your computer.

At LibriVox, volunteers record tracks of books in the public domain into digital audio (ex. mp3), and then make the audio files available to the world, for free (through their catalog, a podcast, and bittorrents). Audiobook Pop! will donate a portion of our profits to LibriVox to keep the website and mission alive.

There are two ways to listen in your car: First, you could plug your device into an auxiliary cable and then insert the cable to your auxiliary outlet. Secondly, you could pair your device with your in-car bluetooth device (If you don’t have bluetooth in your car already, you can buy one to integrate your car). You can also browse these accessories in our online store.

Select the books you want to read on your trip and start to play them in “Now Playing.” To keep the book downloads running in the background, at least one book must be playing at all times.