Coins Not Gained From Listening Outside Lingq

JasperSynth

United States

March 23 om 12:29

Found this:

https://github.com/openaudible

That should convert the Audible file to mp3.

charrich87

Verenigd Koninkrijk

March 23 om 12:31

Amazing! I'll give that a go, thank you!

S.I.

Rusland

March 23 om 12:03

-- I want to make sure that my listening time is being counted.

-- If so, I'm not. If not... why?

The other participants want to be sure you're not cheating just adding the numbers. So that's up to you to find a way to import the audio. Or else the challenges make no sens. You might as well just set the goals for yourself in MS Exel.

charrich87

Verenigd Koninkrijk

March 23 om 12:41

Why would anyone cheat though? It's not as if the winner wins an actual prize, at least then I'd understand the concern. I'd literally only be cheating myself, so what would be the point?

I prefer e-books and audiobooks to YouTube or Netflix content, and while so far I've been able to find a PDF for the book I want to read (at my current level, anyway), the audio is invariably more difficult to find in a format compatible with LingQ.

So yes, if I can't find a way to import the audio from the sources I happen to find interesting and comprehensive content, then I will stop joining the challenges. The results are not representative of the work I'm actually putting in. Which is fine... like you say, I can set some goals for myself in excel instead.

ericb100

United States

March 23 om 13:47

Most "normal" people wouldn't cheat, but there are always people that seem to find some self-worth or something that makes them cheat. Even if there is no prize. They are at the TOP.

In most cases I don't think there are necessarily cheaters at the top of the challenges. I think there are a lot of cases of people who actually know the language to a high degree already, who are new to LingQ, and therefore end up racking up a lot of points from marking words known.

There is also one particular character almost always at the top of the Spanish challenges (fortunately not the latest). He/she would have a million words read overnight. He/she is not manually entering them, but it's physically impossible the numbers they were doing.

S.I.

Rusland

March 23 om 16:38

Most "normal" people wouldn't cheat, but there are always people that seem to find some self-worth or something that makes them cheat. Even if there is no prize. They are at the TOP.

Exactly. Those challenges aren't too fair even without cheaters, so at least there's some proof that the listening numbers are real.

robertbiggar

Canada

March 24 om 02:05

you can just go to any lesson and hit the plus button add 2k at a time, it counts for coins. People might abuse that

ericb100

United States

March 23 om 13:51

BTW...the listening points don't amount to all that much compared to reading and lingqing. I used to worry about it since I also do much of my listening outside the app, but the few times I would listen to something in the app produced so little points that I don't worry about it much anymore. But I certainly understand wanting them to count!

zoran