Audio playback in lds gospel library

I used to be able to continuously playback the scriptures, conference, etc. from lds gospel library and now it will only play one chapter or one talk and then I have to hit "play" again...quite annoying when cooking, driving...or just working and want to continuously play these.

It used to work, it no longer does.
I use kindle (original) kindle HD, Surface pro2 and a nokia windows 8.1 phone.
None of them provide for continuous playback...unless there is something that I cannot find.

Any suggestions?

I'm also having this problem with my iPhone5. Any help with this issue would be appreciated.

This person has the same problem:
https://tech.lds.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=18729

I'm having the same problem and it's quite frustrating while running or driving. In Utah, it means I'm breaking the law to keep looking at my phone and pressing play.

It seems worse with IOS 8 update.

The ironic thing is that sometimes (very infrequently) it will advance to the next Ensign Article or Chapter. I don't know if it is a program interaction problem or what. I usually have Strava open when I'm running. When I'm driving, I don't have anything else open.

Can someone help or make a suggestion? Is it operator error somehow?

Thanks!

I have LDS Gospel Library v. 3.2.2.0 for my android Nexus 4. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE BRING BACK THE CONTINUOUS PLAY CONSECUTIVE GENERAL CONFERENCE TALK AND SCRIPTURE AUDIO. The audio for General Conference was my absolute favorite part of the app. I could listen to conference while working in the yard, mowing the lawn, jogging, etc! Now the audio has been shuttled to a media download a-z one at a time "media manager." So ugly, so unappealing, do devastatingly depressing, such a huge step backward. Why would I want robot text-to-speech instead of the awesome audio??????? Please bring back the audio. That is SUCH a huge loss. OR, is there a way for me to go back to a previous version??

asaelt wrote:Now the audio has been shuttled to a media download a-z one at a time "media manager." So ugly, so unappealing, do devastatingly depressing, such a huge step backward. Why would I want robot text-to-speech instead of the awesome audio??????? Please bring back the audio. That is SUCH a huge loss. OR, is there a way for me to go back to a previous version??

I'm not sure how you're trying to do this, but I can still listen to the audio of conference, in the voice of the original speakers, with continuous play. I pick a talk, click the Play button, choose Listen, and then the talk plays, followed by the next one, followed by the next one, etc.

I did notice one oddity with the recent October 2014 conference, which might be leading to your assumption that there was some huge step backwards. I haven't checked every single talk, but it appears that although most of the talks have a Listen option, a few of them don't. And one really important one that doesn't have a Listen option is President Monson's opening address, which is naturally the first one many people would try. But if I choose the next one (from Pres. Packer), it has a Listen option, and at the end of his talk, it goes right on to Elder Robbins. But then the next one (from Sis. Esplin) has no Listen option, and so the continuous play stops at that point. From Elder Wong through Elder Oaks give you 5 segments in a row. I don't see any pattern as to what talks have Listen options.

I would hope that this is just a temporary situation, since the October 2014 conference was less than a week ago. The April 2014 conference works just fine, and as near as I can tell, every talk has a Listen option, so you can listen to the entire conference without stopping. That proves that this issue has nothing to do with the version of Gospel Library for Android, but rather is related to the content of the October 2014 conference at this point. I'm hoping that the audio content will be completed over the next few days for our recent conference.

aebrown wrote:I haven't checked every single talk, but it appears that although most of the talks have a Listen option, a few of them don't.

Curious, since all sessions have a listen option at gc.lds.org. I tried the first talk, and it does indeed work.

I wish Gospel Library were more transparent with content updates – when new content is pushed, what new content is pushed, etc.

aebrown wrote:I would hope that this is just a temporary situation, since the October 2014 conference was less than a week ago. The April 2014 conference works just fine, and as near as I can tell, every talk has a Listen option, so you can listen to the entire conference without stopping. That proves that this issue has nothing to do with the version of Gospel Library for Android, but rather is related to the content of the October 2014 conference at this point. I'm hoping that the audio content will be completed over the next few days for our recent conference.

Indeed, the content for October 2014 conference has now been updated and the Listen option is available for all talks. That means that you can now listen to the entire conference continuously on Gospel Library.

Yes but is there a way to play a scripture chapter and have it go directly to the next chapter and keep on reading chapter after chapter until you stop it manually? For example, I want to listen to the entire Book of Isaiah, but it is only allowing me to play one chapter at a time, whereas before I was able to listen to one chapter after another on my iphone until I quit the sound manually, but now it only plays one chapter and then stops. Any suggestions?

In order to play continuously, go to the book you want ie Nephi, where it shows all chapters. On the right you have to option to download or share. download mp3. Then on the bottom left of your screen when the download is complete, click on that and it will open in your files. Select that file and it will open (mine opened in itunes on my mac)all of the chapters listed separately. Then click on that file in itunes and it will begin playing.

I have the gospel library on my android phone. The option to listen to the scriptures or talks etc was working fine up until two weeks ago. I have the latest update and when on data it says error. On wifi it seems to be fine. I have checked all of my settings to make sure nothing has been changed--thanks to children, and all of my settings are the same. I would really like to be able to listen while I drive to and from work. Please help! Thank you!

I have seen posts dating back to 2007 and some in 2014 concerning this issue of "Continuous Playback Option." I saw no answers or solutions posted! You mean to tell me, that in almost twenty years The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has not fixed this issue? I don't understand why? Here it is 2018 and I just downloaded The Book of Mormon audio for my desktop computer and the same problem is still there that existed 19 years ago. Why?

roseofsharon7 wrote:I have seen posts dating back to 2007 and some in 2014 concerning this issue of "Continuous Playback Option." I saw no answers or solutions posted! You mean to tell me, that in almost twenty years The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has not fixed this issue? I don't understand why? Here it is 2018 and I just downloaded The Book of Mormon audio for my desktop computer and the same problem is still there that existed 19 years ago. Why?

Are you using Gospel Library for Windows? Gospel Library for iOS and Android do support continuous play.

Continuous play for Gospel Library in Android merely repeats the same track download. I assume it should be designed to proceed to the next available download? I haven't been able to find a way to make any changes to this in the app. Is this what others are experiencing?

eric.ao.yuli wrote:Continuous play for Gospel Library in Android merely repeats the same track download. I assume it should be designed to proceed to the next available download? I haven't been able to find a way to make any changes to this in the app. Is this what others are experiencing?

Where are you playing the audio from? Are you playing it from the "Downloaded Media" section of the app, or are you playing it from the chapter?

We used to be able to listen to the Primary lesson on Lds.org to prepare to teach the kids. That audio has not worked for a very long time (we don't remember when we were last able to do it). We have tried laptops, desktop, iPad, iPhone etc.... How do I make it work???? I could study the lesson so much more frequently - ie: driving, cooking, exercising etc.

You didn't say exactly which items you were trying to listen to. So, I randomly selected Manuals > Primary 6: Old Testament > Lesson 3: The Creation. Attempting to listen resulted in a "Page not found" error. I submitted feedback on that. But a number of other chapters worked as expected. (This is on a Win10 laptop running Edge).

Note that listening to the audio does require a reasonably good network connection - something that may not be available in the meetinghouse, especially on a Sunday. I'd strongly suggest downloading ahead of time.

Its Fantastic audio Libary. I cheaked it before.

On my Android phone the Play Audio option used to work but has not for the last few months.

Example: Primary 6: Old Testament, Lesson 36.
Steps: Press Play Audio
Result: The audio player pops up for about 3 seconds before it gives up and skips to the next lesson and tries to play that one. It tries the next few lessons before it gives up entirely.
Workaround: When the audio player opens select the menu and hit Download. Give it a few seconds to download the audio and then go back and try to play the lesson again (successfully).

Equipment:
LDS Gospel Library v4.4.2.0
Nexus 5x - Android 8.1.0
Network - Wifi and 1gb internet
Disk space - 12gb free

IT IS DEVASTATING TO ME THAT SINCE THE NEW IPHONE UPDATE MY PHONE WILL NOT AUTO PLAY. I can no longer listen to the BOM while I commute. Please fix!!! Please Help!!!!!

This is a user-to-user mutual-support forum. For official help/support requests, please use the 'Feedback' button or link on a page near where the problem is manifest. Someone might stop by here who knows of a suggestion that might help, but there's no guarantee.

Do you have any settings that prevent the app from running in the background? Do you have the audio downloaded, or are you streaming?
It's also possible it's this iOS 13.2 bug.

Before a recent "upgrade" to the LDS Music app (android), I could choose a hymn anywhere in the hymnal and from that hymn, they would play in sequence. Now I choose a Hymn, it plays and then stops. What do I need to do to have them play in sequence again?

gbrown13 wrote: Tue Dec 05, 2023 10:38 am Before a recent "upgrade" to the LDS Music app (android), I could choose a hymn anywhere in the hymnal and from that hymn, they would play in sequence. Now I choose a Hymn, it plays and then stops. What do I need to do to have them play in sequence again?

In the current version of Sacred Music (starting with 2.0.0, at least through 2.2.0 which is currently in beta), there isn't a way to start at a song in the middle of the list of songs, and continue playing to the end of the list. If you send feedback in the app under Settings, you could request it.

However, you can play a full list of songs starting at the first song, by tapping the Play button at the top of the list.