Comparison of the Three Editions of the Ambling BookPlayer

Feature description

The Ambling BookPlayer is available in three different editions which are the Lite, Personal, and Pro editions.

This table lists the features in each edition, and allows you to easily compare the differences in the features offered by each edition of the Ambling BookPlayer.

Ambling BookPlayer Edition

Lite

Personal

Pro

Free

$6.99

$9.99

Automatically download audiobook descriptions and audio files from the internet

Yes

Yes

Yes

Hundreds of  free audiobooks are available for listening and are easy to acquire and enjoy

Yes

Yes

Yes

Chapter based navigation displays a list of all the chapter titles with the full title displayed, and allows you to move instantly to any chapter

Yes

Yes

Yes

Single touch buttons allow you to jump forward or backward by 15 seconds, by 1 minute, or by chapter while listening

Yes

Yes

Yes

Book progress bar shows your position in the book and allows you to move immediately to any position in the book

Yes

Yes

Yes

Chapter progress bar shows your position in the chapter and allows you to move immediately to any position in the chapter

Yes

Yes

Yes

Track your current location in each book separately

Yes

Yes

Yes

Tracks which book you were listening to most recently

Yes

Yes

Yes

Automatically bookmarks your play history and tracks the last 5 start/stop locations in each book

Yes

Yes

Yes

Supports single button undo and redo to move through any of your previous 5 start or stop positions

Yes

Yes

Yes

Displays your audiobook library by book title (instead of viewing a list of individual audio files)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Supports resume of large audio file downloads

Yes

Yes

Yes

You control whether audio files are downloaded over your phone data network or Wi-Fi networks

Yes

Yes

Yes

Automatically pause audiobook play back when making or receiving a phone call

Yes

Yes

Yes

Configure whether playback resumes automatically when a phone call ends, and how long you would like to delay before resuming

Yes

Yes

Yes

Listen using Bluetooth headphones and Bluetooth in car stereo systems

Yes

Yes

Yes

You can play, pause, jump backward, and jump forward in an audiobook from the Bluetooth headphone controls and Bluetooth in car stereo system controls

Yes

Yes

Yes

You configure whether playback automatically pauses when you unplug the headphones

Yes

Yes

Yes

You configure whether playback automatically begins when you plug in the headphones

Yes

Yes

Yes

You configure whether the player automatically begins playing the next book in a series when it reaches the end of the current book

Yes

Yes

Yes

Automatically bookmarks your play history and tracks up to 150 of your most recent start/stop locations in each book

No

Yes

Yes

Supports single button undo and redo to move through any of your previous 150 start or stop positions

No

Yes

Yes

Listen to your own audiobooks located on the local SD card

No

Yes

Yes

Supports combining multiple audio files on your SD card into a single audiobook

No

Yes

Yes

Supports chapter titles and positions, to allow playback of audiobooks on your SD card with full chapter navigation functionality

No

Yes

Yes

Add your own bookmarks with your personal notes

No

No

Yes

Record audio notes with your personal bookmarks

No

No

Yes

Displays your audiobook library organized by book series

No

No

Yes

Allows you edit and organize audiobooks in your library as either alphabetized groups or sequential series

No

No

Yes

You configure whether forward and backward navigation buttons move between books in a sequential series

No

No

Yes

Sleep timer automatically pauses playback for you

No

No

Yes

Shaking the phone restarts the sleep timer

No

No

Yes

Supports reading book description files from your local SD card

No

No

Yes

Supports creating book description files and saving them to your local SD card

No

No

Yes

Supports reloading a modified book description file from your local SD card to pick up changes you have made to the book description file (book description files are xml files which can be modified in a text editor or xml editor)

No

No

Yes

Allows you to provide a book description file to others so that they can load your audiobook automatically from the local SD card

No

No

Yes