In the next article we are going to take a look at Cozy. This is a open source audiobook player for the Gnu / Linux desktops. The application will allow us to listen to audiobooks without DRM (mp3, m4a, flac, ogg and wav) using a modern Gtk3 interface.
In general, we can use any audio player to listen to audiobooks. But it should be noted that a player specialized in audiobooks like Cozy makes everything easier. It will remember the playback position and allow us to continue from where we left off with each audiobook. It will also give us the possibility to adjust the playback speed of each book individually, among other things.
The interface that Cozy offers us will allow us to search for books by author, among others search functionalities. Cozy supports book covers, either by using PiP images or by adding a cover.jpg or cover.png image to the book folder. The program will pick it up and display it automatically. Something that maybe still missing is a way to automatically get audiobook metadata, including the book cover. Apparently the possibility of adding a feature to retrieve metadata from Audible.com was explored and the developer seems interested in this. But this is currently undated.
When we click on an audiobook, the app will list the chapters of the book on the right and shows the book cover (if available) on the left. It will also show us the name of the book, the author and the last time it was played, along with the total and remaining time.
From the application toolbar, we will be able to go back 30 seconds in a simple way. Just click on the rewind icon from the top left corner. In addition to the regular controls, the cover and the title, we will also find a playback speed button. This will allow us to increase the playback speed.
A sleep timer. It can be set to stop after the current chapter or after a specified number of minutes.
General features of Cozy
- Integration media keys and playback information.
- Support for free files without DRM. Currently it is compatible with mp3, m4a, flac, ogg and wav. Support for more formats will likely arrive in future releases. Although we can already find some solutions to convert Audible .aa / .aax audiobooks to mp3, like this script.
- Admits multiple storage locations.
- It provides <strong>economic data</strong> on the business environment. drag and drop support when importing new audiobooks.
- Offline mode. If your audiobooks are on an external or network drive, you can keep a copy of the book in your local cache. This will allow you to listen to it while you travel. To enable this feature, you need to set your storage location to external in settings.
- Prevent the system from suspending during playback.
- It offers us a dark mode.
- We will be able import all our audio books into Cozy to navigate comfortably.
- We will have the possibility of classify our audiobooks by author, reader and name.
- Remember the position Of reproduction.
- Search option in our library.
Install Cozy
This app is available as Flatpak on FlatHub. To install it, you need to follow the flatpak quick setup. Then go to the page on FlaHub from Cozy click the install button, or use the install command. This is located at the bottom of this page.
For Ubuntu 18.04 / Linux Mint 19 we will also be able to install Cozy from its repository. To do this we open a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and in it we write:
wget -nv https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:geigi/Ubuntu_18.04/Release.key -O Release.key sudo apt-key add - < Release.key sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/geigi/Ubuntu_18.04/ /' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:geigi.list" sudo apt update sudo apt install com.github.geigi.cozy
After finishing the installation, we will only have to look for the program on our computer to find its corresponding launcher.
You can still find other ways to install this program. If you want to consult them, visit their site.