Playback controls

Continue where you left off

Audely’s player is designed for audiobook parts and podcast episodes, with saved progress that can move between devices without moving the source audio itself.

Start playing

Choose an audiobook to start or continue it in part order. A finished audiobook offers Play again from part 1.

Choose a part or episode from Home, its audiobook or podcast, Search, or the queue. Selecting the current part or episode toggles play and pause. Starting another item loads its saved position and uses its audiobook or podcast playback-speed preference when one is set. A podcast’s playback actions can start its latest unplayed episode when one exists, fall back to its latest episode, or choose an episode at random.

Player controls

• Play or pause the current part or episode.
• Skip backward or forward using the player controls.
• Seek by moving through the progress control.
• Change playback speed for the current audio.
• Start a sleep timer to stop after a duration or at the end of the current part or episode.
• Open the queue to review or change what plays next.
• Open chapters when the audio file contains embedded chapter markers.
• Choose audio output for AirPlay, Bluetooth, or another available route.
• Adjust volume through the device’s system output volume.

Playback speed

Choose a speed from the player’s speed control. General settings provides the default. Book settings or Show settings can keep a different speed for one audiobook or podcast, and that choice takes priority whenever one of its parts or episodes starts.

Under General › Audiobooks, Play button progress chooses whether an in-progress audiobook or part play button shows Time remaining or Percent complete. Audiobooks that have not started or are finished still show their full length. Podcast episode buttons continue to show time remaining.

For audiobooks, the player identifies the book and its author while the active part keeps its own position and actions. Podcast playback identifies the episode and its show. Publication dates and other descriptive details are available on the item’s page.

Sleep timer

Open the sleep timer from the player’s available controls and choose a duration or Stop after part/Stop after episode, depending on the current audio. Cancel it from the same control when you want playback to continue normally.

Progress and played state

Audely saves the current position and completion state in its local library. Reaching the end marks the part or episode as played. You can also change played state manually from the available actions.

Audiobooks always follow their narrative part order after queued items. If the immediately following part is unavailable, Audely stops and reports that the audio is unavailable instead of skipping narrative content. For podcasts, Continuous playback controls whether Audely continues through the current podcast after queued items have played.

If sync is enabled, playback position and played state can follow the part or episode across devices. An audiobook’s overall progress and completion follow from the synced state of its parts.

System playback controls

If audio becomes unavailable

Saved progress and library information do not make an audio file playable. If Audely shows Audio unavailable, make sure the file exists and is downloaded, then use Choose Folder when Audely offers access recovery if the folder’s permission or location changed. The part or episode details and saved progress remain available while the file is missing.