r/spineaudio

Im fairly new to audio books, I’m only on my sixth so far. First 5 were on another app, that was paid for.

That being said, this app feels soo much more superior. It feels smoother, looks finer and the car play does not seem anywhere near as buggy. The only thing I have noticed, is that I seem to need to start playing a story from my phone. But once started I then have full control from the car’s own controls.

Even so, after paying for the previous apps pro version, I can easily say I would have paid for this one also.

Thank you for this app.

Just shipped an audiobook app and ended up leaning on the on-device Foundation Models framework for four things: "previously on…" recaps for series, cleaning messy filenames into typed structs, tightening publisher back-cover blurbs into 2-sentence summaries, and one-line witty captions for a year-in-review screen. All running on the 3B model, all offline, all free.

The real killer feature is @Generable + @Guide. You get a typed Swift struct back instead of parsing model output, and the per-field descriptions feel like a more reliable prompting surface than system prompts.

Rough edges: the safety classifier is aggressive on both input and output (book blurbs about war history or politics will trip it, permissiveContentTransformations plus stripping pull-quotes/URLs fixed most of it), and the model will confidently hallucinate authors for obscure titles, so treat output as a suggestion not truth.

Overall though: structured output, free inference, zero data leaving the device is a wild deal for a 3B model.

After updating to the latest version, I keep getting an error message that states “No Torbox API key configured“. when I go onto settings, however, I’m connected to Torbox and everything looks fine. How can I fix this issue?

BTW, this app is awesome!