Please add other audio when you add library

[saintsnsinners]

There are times when I listen to audio books and other audio odds and ends that don’t quite fit into any category. It would be great to add an (Other Audio) selection to the library types when you add a new library. Right now I have those audio files under music and it’s a pain in the rear because Plex is always trying to organize them by artist and albums. Just like there is an (Other Video) selection there should be an (Other Audio) selection. Thank you!

[tom80H]

There’s already a feature suggestion covering this. Please search before posting duplicate suggestions to distract votes from each other.

Other Audio library option

The new music scanner has enough problems dealing with music without pegging the CPU and shutting the server down. Perhaps we need an “Other Audio” library like we have other video? Just show what is in the folders. Stuff like teaching company, modern scholar, and the eternally requested and ever ignored audio book type stuff could go there and bypass the entire scanning process. How about it? Cause right now my server just doesn’t want to behave anymore.

I’m closing this thread. Please vote and/or comment in the existing one.

Edit:
there’s also a dedicated suggestion for an audiobook type category

Audiobook Library Type

Using plex for Audiobooks is a great way to get greater access to audiobooks then being stuck in specific players. Since plex recognizes .m4b and other audio book types its works okay. You really need to add an Audiobook Library type. This would be pretty straightforward. The Music library type doesn’t work well for this at all and plex isn’t very smart about how to sort or filter audio books using this only available option. It really needs have Author(Artist) -> Series -> Book and stac…