+1 Any form of resume will do the basic job ~O)
I know that the phone screen must stay on for it to work but it is set to blank to simulate off as much as possible to not drain your battery or burn in the screen.
Thatās not the problem. The problem is that you canāt do anything else with your device while video is playing.
I almost always have Waze running on my phone when Iām driving with some audio app playing something in the background, like podcasts, or Plex for music. I canāt background the audio for a video file. Your workaround doesnāt work.
And to say something like āyou must not need it as much as you say you do because neither of these Band-Aid set-ups require more than a couple of minutes of your time and actually work quite wellā is incredibly dismissive. Donāt do that. People have real, common use-cases where your band-aids arenāt valid solutions.
@DarkeSword I use Waze also all the time but as soon as I open Waze, I can
still hit the play button in my car or using the controls on my iphone
display and the video continues in the background. So I can use both at
once 
Op maandag 13 juni 2016 heeft DarkeSword forums+d122524-s6025034@plex.tv
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I hope everyone who is adding a new +1 post is also clicking the like of the first post. As @BrodericKlemetson said
Writing another post does not show plex that you want this feature, please go back and like the original post to make it more prominent. This feature is already on Plexās feature request list 3 times, please go to those threads and like the original post to make it gain even more priority. Here are the two threads with the most priority likes so far, voting on these will be the most beneficial:
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/57673/very-popular-remember-position-for-audiobooks/p1
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/122524/audiobook-library-option/p1
If you havenāt already done so please follow those links and like the first post as they are already the most popular. Get enough likes to get the admins attention and maybe this feature request will go somewhere.
@DarkeSword I didnāt meant to come across dismissive and I apologize. I totally get what you mean with not being able to do anything else when the video player is up. I donāt know if you are on an iPhone or Android, but on Android there are a couple of hacks you can do to still user your phone without loosing audio (donāt know about iPhone as I donāt use it). I like to have my maps program open so I can see traffic and stuff. Most Android phones have a multi-window feature where you can have more than one app open at once. Plex does not allow itself to be in a popup window but waze and maps do.
- While Plex is open you can click the button for a list of recent apps.
- Press and hold on the title of your app you would like to overlay and it will open in a floating window.
- You can size this window to almost fill the screen and your book will still play in the background.
Now before anyone says the obvious, ābut we shouldnāt HAVE toā! I totally agree that we shouldnāt have to go through this mess to enjoy our books. Unfortunately the reality is that we do right now.
There is another method you can use which works quite well (android only). If you store your audio books as either a single mp3 file or the m4b format in Plex you can download them to your phone on demand and then use your audio book player of choice to listen to them. Plex just becomes the convenient repository for your books. The easiest way I have found for this is to:
- enable the DLNA server in Plex.
- Install the free BubbleUPnP program to access your Plex server,
- browse to the book you want to listen to and download it to your phone.
- After listening just delete the file and repeat for the next book.
Someday I really hope that Plex adds the proper support or at the very least allow us to open the Audio Book in a separate app like you can with videos. At least then I could use whatever player I want and it could handle bookmarking. Hear that Plex Admins? It doesnāt get easier than that. Throw us a bone here.
@Bart274 said:
@DarkeSword I use Waze also all the time but as soon as I open Waze, I can
still hit the play button in my car or using the controls on my iphone
display and the video continues in the background. So I can use both at
onceOp maandag 13 juni 2016 heeft DarkeSword
het volgende geschreven:
Thatās useful to know. Thank you. Iām still not going to sit down and spent all my time converting audio books to blank videos though.
+1
One of many āLibrary Optionsā neededā¦
Audio books are now mostly supported.
You may want to have a look at this thread, beginning with
It seems to have finally gotten the attention of the developers and we even have one making comments about it. To sum it up, you can turn on the remembering of position in the advanced tab but it still marks complete at 90%. They are aware of that and working on it.
Similar to audiobooks, I have a number of audio course that have multiple lectures. Needs different metadata to describe. Ability to remember my position in a lecture.
@Plex God said:
Similar to audiobooks, I have a number of audio course that have multiple lectures. Needs different metadata to describe. Ability to remember my position in a lecture.
Plex now remembers position for audio files if it is turned on on the server in the advanced section of the library settings. It is not true audiobook support but it does work pretty well.
I just added my audiobooks to my library and the position memory is cool, but at a minimum, a modern audiobook player needs to have variable speed options and a space for a book summary. Metadata agents would be cool too but thatās definitely on the optional list. Iāve been a happy user of Plex for many years now and Iāve been excitedly awaiting being able to use it for my audiobook collection. It feels like this option is almost here.
@jwp763 said:
I just added my audiobooks to my library and the position memory is cool, but at a minimum, a modern audiobook player needs to have variable speed options and a space for a book summary. Metadata agents would be cool too but thatās definitely on the optional list. Iāve been a happy user of Plex for many years now and Iāve been excitedly awaiting being able to use it for my audiobook collection. It feels like this option is almost here.
Well, at least it is something. It is āalmost thereā kind of like a pile of crap plus a seed is āalmost a flower.ā But it is better than it was and, maybe, it will get even better.
@jwp763 said:
I just added my audiobooks to my library and the position memory is cool, but at a minimum, a modern audiobook player needs to have variable speed options and a space for a book summary. Metadata agents would be cool too but thatās definitely on the optional list. Iāve been a happy user of Plex for many years now and Iāve been excitedly awaiting being able to use it for my audiobook collection. It feels like this option is almost here.
Well, at least it is something. It is āalmost thereā kind of like a pile of crap plus a seed is āalmost a flower.ā But it is better than it was and, maybe, it will get even better.
WIP.
;- )=
+1 ā¦ I HOPE
+1 - I have a number of white noise tracks that I currently have in a music library, but audiobooks would be a more appropriate way to structure this content. Liked the post as well as it says in the sticky.
+100000000
+1 for this!
+1 This would be a nice feature to have.
Hope more people click āLikeā of the first thread.
