I have a lot of audiobooks, some radio shows, and a couple podcasts downloaded and hosted in Plex.
Unfortunately, if I get halfway through an audiobook, and have to stop listening, Plex doesn't remember where I left off, forcing me to start all over again at the beginning, or just look around until I find where I was.
A library option that remembers where you left off with Audio media would be excellent.
Multiple requests already exist:
https://forums.plex.tv/topic/56331-plexreader-comics-books-pdfs-audiobooks-and-more/
https://forums.plex.tv/topic/112971-audiobooks/
https://forums.plex.tv/topic/57673-remember-position-for-audiobooks/
And there are many others that exist. It is better to like and post in existing threads rather than starting another.
See this thread as to the purpose of this forum:
https://forums.plex.tv/topic/46128-rules-for-this-forum-inc-how-to-vote/
Plex has not responded and that could, at least partly, be because the people wanting this feature have diluted their impact by not following directions.
As you have reported also. Plex has not responded. This could be because a simple like does not get the attention but a thread multiple times does. I agree with xoatikdesigns. I have a collection of thousands of books. Current number is 33500 Ebooks. All using Calibre. I have a complete collection of audiobooks. A huge collection of TV Series. And hundreds of DVD Movies. I have used dozens of programs over the time. They all fall short of being the one true complete program.
The final part. I am a supporter of the program, so my vote counts.
As I made mention in another posting. Separate of course, The audiobooks could indexed by playlists but the pause ie, bookmark.
To be fair, Plex does not respond to any feature request. They will respond to bug reports, but never provide information on features. Sometimes the may mention that they are looking into something or that it may be on their road map, but nothing more than that. So multiple threads may or may not garner any addition attention from them, but they still won't respond so it does not help.
To be fair, Plex does not respond to any feature request. They will respond to bug reports, but never provide information on features. Sometimes the may mention that they are looking into something or that it may be on their road map, but nothing more than that. So multiple threads may or may not garner any addition attention from them, but they still won't respond so it does not help.
By "respond" I meant that they have not implemented audiobook support. I do not expect that Plex, or any other company, would pre-announce their intention to implement or add a feature as that would be a foolish action that could have no upside with a number of potentially severe repercussions.
I think it would be a good thing and I believe that a single unified thread with a large number of "likes" will have much more impact than several separate threads with even more total "likes."
If Plex uses threads in this forum to help determine what feature requests are the most wanted then the simplest way to find those feature requests would be to sort the threads by total "likes" and/or by total posts rather than by trying to figure keywords to use to sort and group by title to get the multiple threads wanting the same feature together and then counting those.
So I believe the best way to get attention is to "like" and add to existing threads rather than by creating different ones.
In this case it is my opinion that proper audiobook support is highly desirable and should be implemented but I also understand that Plex has limited resources and that audiobooks are needed only by a minority of users that cannot, for various reasons, read printed material well or have physical problems, in my case old eyes, that make reading print difficult or painful.
I currently have a solution using MediaMonkey on a computer hooked up to my whole house audio system and the MediaMonkey server/remote system on my Android devices for control and it works quite well. But a solution using Plex would be better as it would not require that I maintain different system to play my media.
Ok. I've actually seen people want a written response, so just covering my bases. :D
Too bad they don't have a place to actually cast votes instead of just relying on likes to a thread. I already voted (liked) on that other thread.
My work around has been to turn my books into 1 large audio only mp4.
Ok. I've actually seen people want a written response, so just covering my bases. :D
Too bad they don't have a place to actually cast votes instead of just relying on likes to a thread. I already voted (liked) on that other thread.
My work around has been to turn my books into 1 large audio only mp4.
That is what I do as well for some of my books but it is a tedious process and not really worth the effort for my large library.
I use scripts to do it so not much of a hassle for me. I use scripts for everything.
Hey, I just noticed my audio only mp4s don't work now. You?
Edit: This is on 9.11.0.
Hey, I just noticed my audio only mp4s don't work now. You?
Edit: This is on 9.11.0.
Mine are working fine. I am also on 0.9.11.0 using Windows 7 and playing on my Roku 3. My mp4 audio files are created using "Modiac MP3 to MP4 Audio Converter" and they Direct play on my Roku using the RARflix channel. Also if it matters the library is a "Home Video" library.
I cannot think of a reason why your audio mp4s would not play unless it is related to transcoding (remember the problems with 0.9.10.1) or something about the client you are using.
Hmm. Looks like Plex is trying to transocde my files. I know that won't work. Now to figure out why its transcoidng when it didn't before. Thanks for confirming that it's just me. :D
That is why I use Track Wrapper. It fast and keeps your original files metadata and all in tact. The only problem is you have to update the metadata with a mp3 tagger. That is because all the files might not have the same metadata. I like to add different covers or photos to each chapter to change it up on my player. Track Wrapper can't choose from all the different metadata for the whole book.
You can find the file by googling it. It is no longer supported but is very easy to work. The only problem is bookmarking. If the player does not bookmark it well you have to keep finding your place.
I have been attempting to put my audiobooks into plex, however it doesn't seem to like to do anything other than organize them by author instead of displaying them by book cover, once I drill into an author it will show me what books I have however it seems clunky at the moment. It should handle them more like it handles movies, pick up where it leaves off and organizes them by title instead of author.
Plex is not designed for audio books. Hence the discussion on feature request. If you want them organized like a move, which is what I like to do as mentioned above, is to convert them to a video file, then Plex can organize them as movies.
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I have been listening to my audiobooks on Plex and I seem to be having a few weird issues.
1. Some tracks won't play all the way through before skipping to the next track.
2. Every once in a while the audiobook will go back to the first track.
3. There is no way to bookmark the spot you left off at.
4. Last.FM is an awful database for pulling audiobook metadata (not really Plex's problem but worth mentioning.)
Chapter and Verse pulls from audible's database...don't know if plex could pull from there, but it an excellent source
Man it would be awesome if this was added
