The best books ever written are out of copyright and free to anyone who wants them. Most of them have never been recorded well. Mia Media produces audiobooks from those texts — and makes the player to listen to them on.
They are separate things, and deliberately so. The player works perfectly well with audio that has nothing to do with us.
Classics whose copyright has expired, recorded properly: chapters marked, metadata correct, cover art that looks like a book rather than a placeholder. Downloaded as files you keep, not streamed from a library that can take them away.
In production
An offline player for iPhone and Android. It plays the audio files already on your phone — anything you own, from anywhere. Audiobooks resume to the second, playback speed runs 0.75× to 3× with pitch correction, and none of it needs a signal.
Audio you have paid for should behave like something you own.
A download is yours. It keeps working when a subscription lapses, when a catalogue changes, and when a company stops existing. Everything we make is a file.
On a plane, on the Underground, in a lift. The player never needed a connection, because it plays from local storage and nothing else.
A novel is not a playlist. It remembers where you stopped, to the second, and shows how far through you are rather than burying itself among albums.
The player has no sign-in and collects nothing. There is nothing to register for and nothing to delete later.
Every recording names the text it came from and the rights position that lets us publish it. No vagueness about provenance.
Not in the player, not in the recordings. Nothing interrupts a chapter to sell you something.
Support for the app, questions about the recordings, or anything about rights and sources.