Audio Library APP

Welcome to the HELP Page....

Topics Discussed on this Help Page

1. Download & Share
2. Marking «HEARD» to Lectures
3. SORTING Lectures
4. Playing in SEQUENCE
5. SEARCH And FILTERS
6. Backup and Restore your «Heard» Data Markups
7. Audio Player Controls
8. Transcript of the Lecture
9. Quality Selection for Lectures

Please First Watch the Below Video Tutorial Fully...

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Download And Share....

For Android: Press the download button (📥) at the end of lecture title; it will open the audio file in chrome for playing; press three-dot menu and select download.
To Share, just press the share-link-icon (🔗) button at the end of lecture title

For Mac and PC: You can also directly right click the lecture link and "Save Link As..." or "Copy Link Address..."

Marking «HEARD» to Lectures

You can just press Heard button in the beginning of each lecture to mark a lecture Heard. The color of the lecture will change to grey.
If you want to unmark a lecture that was mark heard then just press the same button again (which would now be showing "unHeard" label). This way you can toggle any lecture's heard/unheard condition.

On the top-right side of screen, there is a "showHeard" toggle button. Pressing it once, you will see only all heard lectures in the list; pressing it again you will see only all unheard lectures in the list; pressing it for the third time, you will see all the lecture (heard and unheard) in the list.

Even if you close your app and reopen it, it will remember your heard/unheard status for your device.

SORTING the Lectures

On the top, below Search Bar, there are sort buttons clicking which you can Sort lectures by that field; clicking it first time will sort the list in ascending order, second time click will toggle the sort to descending order.
By Scripture: This will sort BG, SB, and CC lectures by Canto, Chapter no., and Verse no. so that you can hear in verse sequence. The other categories like Various lecture, conversations, etc. are still sorted in the sequence of date only. However, seminars and connected lectures will be clubbed together in their custom sequence.
By DateThis will sort all lectures by their date of recording.
By DurationThis will sort all lectures by their play duration. This may sometime be needed if you are searching for some small lecture on a particular topic. Say for instance you are searching for a lecture on Lord Siva but want to see what are the shortest lectures available for choice.

PLAYING SEQUENCE

The player will automatically play lectures in the sequence displayed in the list.
This means that if sort is applied then lecture will play in that sorted sequence.
If search is also fed in then the lectures displayed in the list will be played in that sequence.

Example: If you have put BG_01 in the search criteria and have been ascending sorted by scripture, then all the lectures of BG Chapter 1 are displayed in the list in verse sequence, so they will play one by one (i.e. verse by verse). However, if the sort is descending then these will be played starting from the last verse of BG chapter 1. If BG_01 is put in search and sorting is ascending by date, then it will play all BG ch.1 lectures but in the sequence of first oldest delivered lecture and moving towards the more latest lectures.

SEARCH And FILTERS

Press the button on the right side of search box to open filter menu and select your filter items. In this APP, the Filters are applied through Search Algorithm. Therefore, whatever you select in Filters Menu will be automatically entered in the Search Box. For more control, you can use the advanced search options explained below.

1. Type of Lectures

Bg_01, Bg_02, Bg_03, etc. (these will display BG lecture of that particular chapter and then press enter)

SB_01, SB_02, SB_3, SB_4, etc. (these will display SB lecture of that particular canto; and then press enter)

Various (will display all Assorted lectures on Various Misc Topics

Festivals (will display all festival lectures

ct:NoD (will display all Nectar of Devotion lectures

ct:RC (will display all Conversations

ct:MW (will display all Morning Walks

2. Date Filter

Yr:1972 will display all lectures recorded in the year 1972

Yr:1972-06 will display all lectures recorded in the June month of the year 1972

Yr:1972-06-12 will display lectures recorded on 12th of June 1972

You can also just type Jan, Feb, etc. months with any year or date combination

3. Time Duration Filter

Just type <30 -- will display all lectures with duration less than 30 min

NOTE: you cannot type <35 etc. because only minutes multiples of ten are accepted for comparison

Also that maximum value you can type is <90 ... you cannot type <100

For lectures of duration more than 90 min just type >90

5. Misc. Filters

For cities countries and other things just type few characters of the name and it should appear. For instance, type ahmed and all lectures of Ahmedabad will display. Type Durb and all lectures in Durban will be displayed

6. Combining of Search Filter fields

You can combine words in the search box to quickly find out the lecture of your choice...

Type examples:

bhaktivi <40 bhop --- get all lectures on bhaktivinoda given in Bhopal and duration less than 40 min

SB_01 <60 --- get all lectures on Bhagavatam 1st canto and duration less than 60 min

In this way you can build the search combining at the max 10 words

Backup and Restore your Heard/unheard Data

It is always advisable that you time to time backup your Heard/unHeard data so that in case of any problem you do not lose your track. In case you want to uninstall and install the app, or if you want to change the device then such backups can be used to restore data. It is something like Backup you have in Whatsapp. Here is how you do it:

Backup

1. Click the Backup & Restore text on top-left (white text in blue, just below the search-bar). A menu will expand.
2. Click Backup button at the bottom.
3. You will be taken to chrome webpage where you will need to press Download Button. The Backup TXT file will be saved in your downloads folder with name SP_Audio_Backup__.txt.
You should time to time take this backup; the files are stored with date-time in the filename so that later when you want to restore you can select the latest one or any previous file you want.

Restore

1. Click Backup & Restore as in above. A Menu will expand.
2. Click Restore button at the bottom.
3. A file browser window will open for you to select the backup txt file that you want to restore. Select the file.
4. Restore is done.

PLAYER Controls

Most of the users know common player controls so I will not describe them here. However, this player has some special features that I would explain:
1. Jump to any time by Typing minute number in the box provided above seekbar
2. Share Lecture at a specific Timestamp: Click Link on the right of the player controls.
3. (+/-) 10 seconds forward/backward buttons on both sides of Play button.
4. Jump Scroll in Lecture List to the Current Playing Lecture. Just click the Lecture Name displayed in the player (just above the seekbar).
While a lecture is playing you can go on scrolling and seeing the lecture list; but use this when you want the display list to come back to the current lecture playing so that you can see its next lecture etc. context.

Transcript of Lecture

Press the Transcript button below the search bar, on right side to open transcript screen wherein you can read the transcript of the lecture while the lecture is still playing.
You can use the googleTranslate widget on the top bar to translate the transcript in more than 100 languages.
You can use the Search Bar on the top bar of the transcript screen to search inside the transcript of the lecture.

Quality Selection

There are three qualities of each lecture that is served here.
1. Original Quality, without any type of sound processing or editing. It is RAW quality and may have noise, or low voice.
2. Less Noise Quality, wherein basic noise removal and sound amplification is done to the standard perceived loudness so that the volume will not suddenly increase or decrease when a lecture changes. Technically it is called normalization in which each audio has the same loudness as that of the other. This gives smooth hearing experience.
3. Slow Internet Quality, wherein besides removing noise and making loudness equal, the lectures are saved in a 12 times compressed format so that it will load fast and will take very less internet. Even after such compression, the lectures are still audible in good quality and it can be a good choice for saving internet data as well as for slow internet connections.
You can select one of the above qualites from Quality dropdown button Quality (Select) Original Unprocessed Less Noise For Slow Internet You will find this dropdown button in the menu that expands when you click white text "Backup and Restore..." below the search bar.