MediaStyle Notification to have the chapter time rather than full audiobook length.

[TheekshanaA]

Hi there,

This is a great app and I'm really enjoying using but noticed that currently the MediaStyle notification controls has the total length of the audiobook rather than the chapter only. I think it would make more sense to have the current chapter length only as this would match the in-app interface controls for the audiobook.

[GrakovNe]

Good catch — yeah, this is kind of a hack right now.

The notification is based on the raw media files, not on chapters. That’s a compromise we had to make: MediaStyle notifications in Android expect a single file with a known duration, and they don’t understand chapters or logical segments.

Meanwhile, the app itself builds the playback queue around chapters — which may or may not map 1:1 to files. Some chapters are split across files, others are merged into one file, etc. So we end up showing file-based progress in the notification and chapter-based progress in the UI.

It’s not great, and it’s confusing. We’ll fix it eventually, probably by switching to a fully custom notification UI, but for now it’s a technical trade-off to keep the system stable.

Appreciate you pointing it out!

[TheekshanaA]

Thanks for your prompt response, looking forward to seeing new features you bring in :).