#Cloud sync audio book players plus#

In addition, Bound can only link to Dropbox, something I would like to see expanded to Box, Google Drive, and other storage providers.Ĭonnecting your Dropbox account is simple. Bound supports DRM-free M4B audiobook files and MP3 audio files only it does not support DRM-protected files like those from iTunes.

#Cloud sync audio book players plus#

Tap on the plus button in the upper righthand corner of the main screen, link your Dropbox account, and then start choosing audiobooks to download to Bound – that’s all it takes to get started. Pain points like these are what create opportunities for third party developers like Tim Bueno who has taken the pain out of getting DRM-free audiobooks onto your iPhone with a promising, although imperfect, Dropbox-connected audiobook player called Bound.īound starts from the premise that with the advent of cloud storage services like Dropbox, loading your audiobooks onto your iPhone shouldn’t require a Mac. But Audible is its own proprietary system and even DRM-free audiobooks cannot sync to iBooks on an iOS device without using a Mac and a cable. Services like Audible let you re-download books, and there are plenty DRM-free audiobooks available. ITunes is not, however, the only game in town. iTunes audiobooks are, to borrow a Steve Jobs’ complaint about Blu-ray disks, “ a big bag of hurt.” Download an audiobook to an iOS device that isn’t backed up and if your iPhone or iPad dies, your audiobook dies with it.

Once downloaded to a device, an audiobook cannot be re-downloaded.

Audiobooks are also one of the most restrictive types of media you can purchase on iTunes. Long tucked away in Apple’s Music app behind a ‘More’ button, audiobooks were kicked out of Music with iOS 8.4 and now live alongside eBooks in iBooks. Audiobooks occupy a weird backwater on iOS.