Sheesh, I’ve been trying to figure this out for probably a couple of years. Plexamp typically remembers my last position in a track, which 99% of the time is at the very end of the track. So, when I play an album, I get a couple of seconds of music/silence for each track as Plexamp works its way to the end. I’ve been through the Plexamp menus many, many times because it was clear to me that there must be a way to turn off this weird behavior.
Just today, on my latest try, I got a sort of pop-up message on the Plexamp Android app warning me that I had that enabled and asking if I’d like to turn it off. Heck, yeah! Good on you for finally putting that in my face.
I thought it must be a new (long overdue) feature and went looking for the setting in the Plexamp Android app. Nowhere to be found. It was only trolling around on this forum that I eventually figured out that it’s a characteristic of the library on the server and nothing to do with the client app. That seems like a horrible mis-feature to me, but whatever.
My complaint is that it’s not very obvious, and someone using the app would expect it to be an app setting. Clearly the app is capable of turning it off on the server (since it just did it with a button in that pop-up warning). It should be an actual setting in the app, which is the natural place someone would expect to find it.
I believe the current approach is based on the idea that this setting applies to the type of media you’re storing in a library. For audio books it’ll make perfect sense to store track progress, while that’s usually not the case for music.
I don’t disagree. I just think it’s not particularly intuitive how to control it if you don’t like the defaults.
(OK, I disagree with that thinking a tiny bit. It also makes a new and unnecessary dimension in how one organizes libraries since the option is at the library layer and not lower.)
Has it always defaulted to disabled? I am the server owner for the library I’m using. It’s at least a couple years old. I don’t remember ever setting that one way or another, but perhaps I did when I was first finding my way around Plex.
Yes, it’s always been an advanced setting for long form audio (audiobook/podcasts etc) and should have always defaulted to disabled AFAIK. It does show as an option in the library set up and I’m not sure if the wording describing it was always as unambiguous as it is now, so perhaps it happened back then?
@aubrey.wodonga will be glad that the warning dialog is helping people to know it should almost always be disabled
The feature was added to facilitate audiobooks, but it’s only a piece of what is needed, even for audiobooks. It’s only good for audiobooks if your book is in a single, monolithic file. If your book is in multiple files, Plex will remember where you left off in any particular track, but it won’t remember which track you were on.
Years ago I had a device in my car called a Phatbox, which I miss dearly to this day (I actually still have it, but it’s unusable in my current car). It was a media player, with albums stored on a hard drive, that connected to the car’s head unit, and appeared to the head unit like a CD changer, and you could browse through everything using the head unit’s controls.
On that device, I had the ability to mark any individual album or audiobook with the “remember position” option, and it worked flawlessly. If I was switching between several books, it knew where I left off in every one of them.
This is what I was hoping for from Plex. But that one checkbox, at the library level on the server, is all we got.
