Feature description
This would make the progress bar show the position of the current chapter, rather than the whole audiobook.
Problem solved
The progress bar is basically useless for audiobooks, since you can’t really scrobble a 5 hour audiobook with the progress bar. This would make the progress bar useful at scrobbling the current chapter.
Brought benefits
It would allow the user to quickly skip parts of a chapter.
Other application solutions
Apple Books uses the progress bar to keep track of the chapter progress:
Device type
Phone
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+1 for this feature. I don’t want to use yet another player/app just for this useful feature.
Late reply, I’d love to see this too. But until then, here’s my two-part workaround for this (in case anyone is interested):
- While not as user-friendly, we can use custom strings to display the chapter times (current position/duration). This allows us to set up a custom string for use as a “Chapter Progress Bar”. Visual only, of course–we can’t drag to seek on a string.
Look at my FULL COMBO NPS style (available here) if you want to see how this can work. It combines three separate styles of Chapter Progress Bar–text only, a simple bar, and a segmented bar with progress indicator.
Animated preview of the bars is available on my thread here since the Styles site doesn’t support animated webp. String breakdown is available there as well. (See Main Info Panel > Subtitle and Chapter Info section, though it’s not fully up-to-date.)
- For seeking, if dragging the slider is not precise enough, I will remind people of what I feel is an overlooked feature: tapping on the times displayed under the built-in Progress Bar actually does stuff!
Specifically, tapping the left-hand label for “current position” opens a “Go to Time” window, where we can precisely select a time via rotary selection:
Want to jump forward/back 2 mins? Just move the minutes and hit go. A few extra taps, but it’s pretty quick. Paired with strings to show chapter times, you can seek easily enough without the slider.
Sadly, we cannot reach this “Go to Time” menu via string actions yet. (Someone else can ask, I don’t need it for my usage 
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