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Listening

Tonight's books, in order

Build a queue of recordings, name it, and it's there next week. Loop it, shuffle it, put music under all of it. Skip moves by book, so a page never gets lost.

The Voicebooks playlists screen with tonight's queue and saved playlists

How it works

From "one more" to a saved routine

A Voicebooks playlist with its running order, play controls and music setting
The Voicebooks playlists screen with tonight's queue and saved playlists
A Voicebooks playlist with its running order, play controls and music setting
A Voicebooks playlist with its running order, play controls and music setting
  1. Start a queue

    Tap a recording and choose Just listen. That starts tonight's queue. Add the next book, and the next.
    A Voicebooks playlist with its running order, play controls and music setting
  2. Name it

    Saving the queue is naming it. "Sunday nights", "Car to Grandma's", "The ones for when he's poorly". The next queue starts itself.
    The Voicebooks playlists screen with tonight's queue and saved playlists
  3. Give it a sound

    One bed of music for the whole list, or none. The playlist's choice rides over every recording's own.
    A Voicebooks playlist with its running order, play controls and music setting
  4. Press play and put the phone down

    It keeps playing when the phone locks. Skip goes by book. Loop keeps it going for the ones who need it twice.
    A Voicebooks playlist with its running order, play controls and music setting

Details that hold up at bedtime

Loop and shuffle, remembered

The player keeps the settings you left it with. A loop set on Tuesday is still looping on Wednesday.

One bed for the whole list

Choose music for a playlist and it quietly replaces whatever each recording had, so the evening has one mood.

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Skip by book

Skipping a story skips the story, not a page of it. A child who wants the next one gets the next one.

Lock-screen controls

Play, pause, next book, straight from the lock screen or a car's dashboard.

On the TV too

A playlist on the television becomes the afternoon's programme, pages and all.

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Per family, for everyone

Playlists belong to the family, so a co-parent or a grandparent finds the same "Sunday nights".

Make tonight's list

Three recordings is a playlist. Free, on every plan.

Two Voicebooks mascots — a grown-up and a child — side by side, smiling

Questions about playlists

Yes. Mum's Gruffalo, then Grandpa's Room on the Broom, then the babysitter's version of the same book. Any recording the family can hear.
The playlist's music overrides it while the playlist plays. Play the recording on its own and it has its own music again.