Listening to gospel library off-line

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New Member
#1
I have noted that with the gospel library you only can download one chapter or one article from a magazine such as the new era to listen to off-line. It will not allow you to download more than one chapter or one article to listen to offline. Is there a way to download multiple chapters or an entire magazine to listen to off-line? For example, I'd like to download the audio for the entire book of Alma when I am at home online, to listen to in my vehicle when I have no online access or cellular access. Is that possible? So far I have only be able to download one chapter or one article at a time. It will not allow you to download multiple articles or chapters.
Thank
Using iPhone or iPod touch
New Member
#2
One more in on this question. On the old app I could download all the scriptures. I have not figured out how to do this and would love to as a lot of my travel time is in areas without cell coverage. I'm using iPhone.
Community Moderators
#3
This is not currently possible, but it is on the to-do list "backlog" for the Gospel Library developers. You can, however, download videos for offline use, where there is video content available.
Samuel Bradshaw • If you desire to serve God, you are called to the work.
New Member
#4
Please make this feature available (listening to audio of scriptures offline), it would be very useful. Please expedite if possible.
Community Moderators
#5
wmorrison wrote:Please make this feature available (listening to audio of scriptures offline), it would be very useful. Please expedite if possible.
Developers don't visit the forums very often – most of the people here are regular members like you. In the meantime, I'd recommend downloading audio tracks from LDS.org and syncing them to your device via iTunes...
Samuel Bradshaw • If you desire to serve God, you are called to the work.
Senior Member
#6
Maybe I do not understand. I can already download all scriptures and listen to them off-line by downloading them from here:
https://www.lds.org/scriptures/formats?lang=eng

Electronic text and audio recordings are also available on the Church’s mobile applications.

Audio recordings are available on iTunes and will soon be available at LDS Media Library.
Dana Repouille, Plattsmouth, Nebraska
New Member
#7
I am having a problem downloading gospel library audio for off line use. I reset phone to factory settings and downloaded the library app. Now audio is only available thru wifi or data connection. What am I doing wrong? Downloading from gospel library edit does not appear to work.


Gospel Library 3.4.4
iOS 6.1.6 on iPhone 3GS
iOS Locale: en
/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/27 (English 000, v2.0.0-13)
Version: Schema 2.0.0, Catalog 70
New Member
#8
Agreed with those requesting this ability. Works great on my android device... I'm shocked that I do not have this ability on the iPad. Please make this a higher priority.
New Member
#9
Yeeessss!!!! Pleeeeeease! Listening to BoM offline is actually a difficult task on iphone. I am still having to download individual chapters instead of an entire book/section. Trying to follow the prophet's counsel and I do a lot of driving in remote areas without cell towers.
Community Moderators
#10
It's now possible in Gospel Library to download all audio for a book, in bulk. Open a book (don't go into a chapter – stay on the page where you can see the table of contents or list of chapters for the book), then tap the option from the top right corner to download all audio.
Samuel Bradshaw • If you desire to serve God, you are called to the work.
New Member
#11
Have been trying to download audio (Come Follow Me) from both the android app and from the computer app.
Download options are there but don't seem to work.
Trying to get the lessons for my blind neighbors.
Any suggestions?
New Member
#12
I’m in the same boat with trying to get things set up for my blind dad. The lds library and lds.org really are not made with the blind in mind, in fact I have found that the vast majority of videos, etc is not created with them in mind :( . I’m growing frustrated as well. Hoping that they come out with an iBooks version because that is much easier for the blind to use.

In the meantime, you can go to https://www.lds.org/study/manual/come-f ... e?lang=eng on a computer and download each chapter (click on the headphone icon, and then there is a underlined down arrow button to click to download...you may have to right-click and select ‘download to...’), and put it into iTunes. Cumbersome and inconvenient, but the only solution I have found.
Community Administrator
#13
royjohnson wrote:Have been trying to download audio (Come Follow Me) from both the android app and from the computer app.
Download options are there but don't seem to work.
Trying to get the lessons for my blind neighbors.
Any suggestions?
What do you mean when you say the "download options ... don't seem to work"?

I was able to download the audio for Come Follow Me with no problem using the Android version of Gospel Library. To be specific, this is what I did:
  1. From the main Library screen, I went to Come Follow Me, then Individuals and Families, then Come Follow Me--For Individuals and Families New Testament 2019.
  2. From the overflow menu in the upper right corner (three vertical dots), I chose "Download Audio"
  3. I confirmed the download of 428MB by tapping the DOWNLOAD button
  4. Once the download finished (as evidenced by the system notification), I went into Airplane mode and verified that I could listen to it, which proves that it was successfully downloaded.
In which of these steps did you see a problem? What error messages or other specific problems did you see?
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