[Feature Request] Audiobook Support in Plexamp

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Hi Otto.

What I am encouraging here are specific improvements that could be made to the new Plexamp app to make it competitive with existing third-party Plex audiobook apps such as Prologue (which, sadly, is iOS-only).

While I understand the instinct to gather the votes of others for a feature request that you yourself support, it is worth noting that a vote for the request you suggest is a complete waste:

  1. While official Plex Server audiobook support would be welcome, audiobooks work just fine via Plex using the simple hack I mentioned. So, unlike some feature requests, anyone who wants to listen to audiobooks can actually do so right now and have been able to do so for many years.

  2. Despite currently having 1,156 votes and being the 5th most popular request of all time, in the almost 8 years since it was posted the Plex team has expressed zero interest in ever implementing the request you suggest.

  3. If you manage to take all 26 votes from this request and add them there, you will increase its score to 1,182 but its ranking will remain unchanged at 5th place. I suspect that won’t be enough to suddenly make the Plex leadership pay attention :smile:

  4. In contrast, this feature request is aimed specifically at the far smaller Plexamp team and is currently the 3rd most popular Plexamp request, a mere 9 votes behind the most popular Plexamp request, Android Widget for Plexamp, which is also one of mine.

So, anyone investing one of their votes into this request is infinitely more likely to see it adopted by the Plexamp team, and they probably won’t have to wait eight years either. Plexamp is a new product, the team behind it are audio-focused, and probably have more energy, imagination, and ambition than the team behind Plex server.

Furthermore, making Plexamp more useful for audiobooks will reveal to the Plex leadership just how popular audiobooks are and make it far more likely that they will think again about their decision, almost a decade ago, to decide against official Plex Server support for audiobooks.

I hope you agree that my arguments make sense. We both ultimately want the same thing, this is simply a smarter way to achieve it. If you agree, please remove your vote from that request and add it here.

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