Audiobooks - support for a 'Resume' feature?

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Yes, I have been wait for audio resume to listen to my audiobooks for so long. Best news I have heard in a while!!!

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Itā€™s being actively worked on, but will take a while to get it into all the clientsā€¦ :slight_smile:

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My vote is for mobile clients first.

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Elan, you are a God among men. We appreciate you completing this request. It will finally make this platform good for us lifetime members who value the auditory experience above all else.

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@brisimmons105 said:
Any word if audiobook support will also include play speed? I know a lot of people like myself listen at 1.2x - 1.5x speed to get through some books faster.

I donā€™t know man, I would rather them not work on functionality such as this. You can even still use Plex. You just have to transcode your media before you listen to it. I believe that is actually fair and elegant. Should be rather easy, you would not have to transcode everything, just the stuff you are actively reading.

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Any chance you can support accelerated playback with pitch correction? I listen to all audiobooks at 2X and podcasts at 1.7X.

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I canā€™t wait for this! I wonder if itā€™s on the same timeframe as the PHT update (end of this month)?

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Great to know this is being worked on. I have a lot of old audiobooks and even some old podcast episodes (that are no longer in their respective feeds) that I would love to add to my plex library to listen on my phone. Canā€™t wait!

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@elan said:
Itā€™s being actively worked on, but will take a while to get it into all the clientsā€¦ :slight_smile:

:smiley:

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@elan said:
Itā€™s being actively worked on, but will take a while to get it into all the clientsā€¦ :slight_smile:

Me likey!

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Awesome! I was just digging for a workaround to this resume problem. Iā€™ll just be patient

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Anticipating this feature!

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I take it, there is no update on this?

:slight_smile:

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Getting towards 3 months since work began which is longer than I hoped it would take. From the outside you would assume this feature was not a major addition as resuming is a well understood aspect within Plex, however I guess like so many things it is a more complex than it would first appear.
May be in time for Christmas?

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Fingers crossed this is still being worked on.

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@elan said:
Just audio resume for things like audiobooks :slight_smile:

So any rough timescales? This year? Next? :smiley:

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@elan any update on this so much anticipated feature?

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Cannot wait for this feature.

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M4B Audiobook support would enable me to ditch iTunes forever. Plex has my Movies, TV shows, Music and Home Videos covered, but Audiobooks and Courses (Audio & Video) need bookmark support to make this a one stop shop.

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i really hope support for audiobooks will be available in the near future. since music-handling was updated this is really the last thing i need iTunes forā€¦ @team it doesnā€™t need to be fancy. a list with play, stop and resume feature is all i need :wink: