The Audio Bible Super Production

Having great success with the Polish version, the project raised further capital to expand its operations to abroad markets. During the years 2020-2021, The Audio Bible team worked on the English version of the recordings. In June 2022, the content was also released in the Spanish language. 

All of the recordings are done with state-of-the-art binaural microphones and software. As a result, users may experience a spectacular 3D sound space that could be enjoyed while listening on standard headphones.

With smartphone technology becoming more innovative, consumers engage more with mobile devices to consume them. Along with this behavioral change, some customers switched from classic readers to podcast listeners and audiobook users.

Audiobooks as listening-based entertainment have also become more popular due to the pandemic, as listeners tended to “play” a book instead of reading while doing daily activities.

In turn, audio publishers started investing in producing their titles as digital downloads to be compatible with mobile devices and, therefore, easily accessible and always at hand. 

The Audio Bible is a product that follows these trends and shows that even religious content can be adjusted to the needs of modern customers.

Another goal was to enable the client to manage prices depending on the user’s location (territory-specific prices). The user can be from Poland, but while changing the country, they may see a different price for the app. Price can be manually defined. However, this does not apply to the Stripe system (it doesn’t allow for location tracking on the web). 

We also implemented the possibility of using gift codes. For this solution, a custom virtual subscription mechanism via promotional codes was required to be independent of the App Store and Google Play.

Additionally, we built a Web administration panel where our client can manage the content shown within the app. An example is "Content for Today," a newly selected part of the Bible that can be changed daily and shown to certain users. We used React framework and component library Ant Design from Alibaba.

A dedicated Admin app also allows for replacing audio files, managing users (block an account, delete), and generating promotional codes. Users can be assigned to target groups - assigning is done with a code or by the admin user. The admin panel communicates with the server and knows where the specific users came from. Then the user sees a special offer.

• Managing large amounts of content that differ in size, length, and quantities within a group requires well-structured communication between the app and the backend.
• On top of that, you add a layer of offline listening and DRM protection - once again, you have to cover many corner cases to ensure that users can enjoy audio streaming without interruptions.