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Listen to audiobooks

How to add MP3 and M4B audiobooks to LuceVoce, move between chapters, change the speed and volume, and pick up where you stopped.

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LuceVoce plays audiobooks as well as reading books aloud. Add an MP3, M4B, M4A or AAC file, or a folder of numbered tracks, and it appears in your library with its cover, chapters and narrator.

Add an audiobook

Add it like any book: with Add, or by dropping the file on the window (see Add your first book). For an audiobook made of several files, add or drop the whole folder. LuceVoce plays the tracks in order as one book.

Audiobooks show an AUDIO badge in the library, and the Audiobooks entry in the side list shows them all.

Free audiobooks read by volunteers come from LibriVox, in Free books. See Get free books and audiobooks.

Play an audiobook

Open the audiobook from the library. Instead of the text, LuceVoce shows the listening view: the title and cover, the narrator, the chapter (Chapter 3 of 12, for example), the position and the time left, and a Volume slider.

The bottom bar works as for any book, with two differences:

  • The previous and next buttons move by chapter.
  • The skip buttons jump back or forward 15 seconds, or the time you set in Settings > Voice > Skip buttons jump.

To pick a chapter from the list, choose Chapters in the listening view, or open Contents in the top bar.

Windows

  • Space: play or pause.
  • Left / Right: skip back or forward.
  • Page Up / Page Down: previous or next chapter.
  • Up / Down: faster or slower.

Mac

  • Space: play or pause.
  • Left / Right: skip back or forward.
  • Page Up / Page Down: previous or next chapter.
  • Up / Down: faster or slower.

iPhone and iPad

Use the buttons in the bottom bar. Audiobooks keep playing with the screen locked, and the lock screen shows what is playing.

Speed, sleep timer and your place

  • Speed: 0.5x to 3x from the speed button, with the narrator's pitch kept. Audiobooks keep their own speed, apart from the speed of books read by a voice. See Change the reading speed.
  • Sleep timer: stop after some minutes or at the end of the chapter. See Set a sleep timer.
  • Your place: close the audiobook and open it again later, and it goes on where you stopped.
  • Media keys: your keyboard's media keys and the system's playback controls play, pause and move by chapter. See Listen with the window closed or the screen off.

Good to know

  • Chapters come from the file itself. An audiobook without chapter marks shows "This audiobook has no chapters."
  • A folder of short songs is treated as music and is not added.
  • Audiobooks can go in the reading queue with books, in any order. See Line up books to read next.

Related

  • Add your first bookHow to add books, documents and audiobooks to your LuceVoce library with the Add button, drag and drop, or by opening a file from another app.
  • Get free books and audiobooksHow to find and download free books and audiobooks from Project Gutenberg, LibriVox, Wikisource and more inside LuceVoce, and browse Gutenberg's catalogue.
  • Change the reading speedHow to make LuceVoce read faster or slower, from half speed to three times, without changing the pitch of the voice, and how the speed is kept.
  • Set a sleep timerHow to make LuceVoce stop reading after a number of minutes or at the end of the chapter, see the time left, and turn the sleep timer off.
  • Line up books to read nextHow to use Play next and Add to queue so LuceVoce starts the next book by itself when one ends, and how to reorder or clear the Queue view.

Last updated 13 November 2026