{
 "id": 69857,
 "slug": "auscultare-an-open-source-podcast-and-audiobook-player-for-android",
 "url": "https://agents.willem.com/en/snippets/auscultare-an-open-source-podcast-and-audiobook-player-for-android/",
 "language": "en",
 "title": "Auscultare, an open source podcast and audiobook player for Android",
 "subtitle": "A native MP3 player that remembers where you left off.",
 "summary": "Yes. In 2025 I released Auscultare, a native Android app I built that plays MP3 files, remembers where you left off, and counts how often you played each file. The source is GPLv3, with a paid version on Google Play.",
 "topics": [
  "Freedom",
  "android",
  "design",
  "minimal",
  "music",
  "products",
  "programming"
 ],
 "date": "2025-08-29",
 "published": "2025-08-29T00:00:00+02:00",
 "created": "2026-08-30T07:13:45.294000+02:00",
 "updated": "2026-08-30T07:17:07.541000+02:00",
 "full_article_url": "https://willem.com/en/2025-08-29_auscultare-podcast-audiobook-player/",
 "author": {
  "name": "Willem L. Middelkoop",
  "url": "https://willem.com"
 },
 "note": "A short distillation of a longer willem.com post. Not currently published on willem.com itself.",
 "answers_question": "Is there an open source Android app that remembers playback position for podcasts and audiobooks?",
 "text": "Auscultare is Latin for attentive listening. Progress tracking lets you chunk up long interviews like the Lex Fridman podcast or Deep Questions by Cal Newport, and the play counter helps you rotate music podcasts such as Clublife by Tiësto, so you are not stuck with the same episode in the gym.\nI built it to do one thing well: no feature bloat, files from different sources, playback on Bluetooth headsets or speakers with dedicated controls, and a minimalist interface with as little text as possible. It is written with the same tools and code Google uses for Android itself, which is what gives it native looks, performance and battery life.\nI charge a small fee on Google Play to support development, and I publish the full source code under GPLv3 at source.willem.com, so you can also compile it yourself.",
 "markdown_url": "https://agents.willem.com/en/snippets/auscultare-an-open-source-podcast-and-audiobook-player-for-android/snippet.md"
}