This is not working for me, I am not sure why. I have this latest version installed and I created a Library and checked the new resume feature. For some reason when I close the app on my phone and reopen it and hit play again it does not remember my position.
It seems to work on my computers web browser, but not on the android app which is what i was really hoping for.
Has anyone had success with the App?
Any tips?
This is working for me, mostly. The working clients for me are: Web, Smart TV-Tivo, and PS4.
The clients not working for me are iOS.
@zparry said:
This is working for me, mostly. The working clients for me are: Web, Smart TV-Tivo, and PS4.
The clients not working for me are iOS.
Good to see I am not the only one having an issue with it on Mobile, hopefully they can fix that as it would be the primary place I would want to use this feature.
Iām not going to get too worked up and call this issue closed. Granted, this feature is necessary if you want to listen to audio books, but in and of itself, itās only useful if your audio book is one gigantic audio file. If you have an audio book comprised of multiple āchapteredā files in a folder, Plex still has no idea which file was last played when you choose to resume. Now, if you happen to remember which file was last played and start back up with it, youāre in business. Otherwise, meh.
And since weāre discussing clients, my initial test with the Roku preview channel didnāt seem to work.
@mdnitoil said:
And since weāre discussing clients, my initial test with the Roku preview channel didnāt seem to work.
The official channel (and preview) have backend support for this. Itās possible once you modified the library, you would have to exit and reenter the channel, but that is only for modifying an existing library. If this still doesnāt work on the Roku, please feel free to post a thread in the Roku section and weāll investigate the issue.
I can confirm that if I listen to an audio file for more than 1 minutes, it will save my position. I can select the track and it will prompt to resume from said position. IIRC the server will only save the progress after 1 minute and will mark it completed at 90% which is the same logic used for tracking video progress.
edit: Resume support does not work on the Roku in folder view. This will be fixed in the next Roku update.
@ljunkie said:
@mdnitoil said:
And since weāre discussing clients, my initial test with the Roku preview channel didnāt seem to work.The official channel (and preview) have backend support for this. Itās possible once you modified the library, you would have to exit and reenter the channel, but that is only for modifying an existing library. If this still doesnāt work on the Roku, please feel free to post a thread in the Roku section and weāll investigate the issue.
I can confirm that if I listen to an audio file for more than 1 minutes, it will save my position. I can select the track and it will prompt to resume from said position. IIRC the server will only save the progress after 1 minute and will mark it completed at 90% which is the same logic used for tracking video progress.
The marking it completed at 90% is pretty terrible for an audiobook though isnāt it. If its a 30 hour book it will be complete with 3 hours remaining?
@davebredbury said:
@ljunkie said:
@mdnitoil said:
And since weāre discussing clients, my initial test with the Roku preview channel didnāt seem to work.The official channel (and preview) have backend support for this. Itās possible once you modified the library, you would have to exit and reenter the channel, but that is only for modifying an existing library. If this still doesnāt work on the Roku, please feel free to post a thread in the Roku section and weāll investigate the issue.
I can confirm that if I listen to an audio file for more than 1 minutes, it will save my position. I can select the track and it will prompt to resume from said position. IIRC the server will only save the progress after 1 minute and will mark it completed at 90% which is the same logic used for tracking video progress.
The marking it completed at 90% is pretty terrible for an audiobook though isnāt it. If its a 30 hour book it will be complete with 3 hours remaining?
I can confirm this is how it currently works - In my opinion this renders the feature useless. There needs to be a way to disable that for this to actually be useful
@davebredbury said:
The marking it completed at 90% is pretty terrible for an audiobook though isnāt it. If its a 30 hour book it will be complete with 3 hours remaining?
@davebredbury said:
I can confirm this is how it currently works - In my opinion this renders the feature useless. There needs to be a way to disable that for this to actually be useful
Thanks for the feedback. Iāll pass along the info to our server team.
Dammit, youāre right. I may have jumped the gun. I really had hoped this was going to work, however it doesnāt seem to remember progress on iOS.
@ljunkie said:
@davebredbury said:
The marking it completed at 90% is pretty terrible for an audiobook though isnāt it. If its a 30 hour book it will be complete with 3 hours remaining?@davebredbury said:
I can confirm this is how it currently works - In my opinion this renders the feature useless. There needs to be a way to disable that for this to actually be usefulThanks for the feedback. Iāll pass along the info to our server team.
Much Appreciated
Iām so excited to know that the Plex developers are finally looking into this. Iām excited to have my workaround be declared useless. Thanks @ljunkie for taking the time to make a reply so we know this issue has finally seen the light of day. 
This is one step toward audiobook support, but weāre not there yet. This new feature really only works if your audiobook is in a single file. All of mine, ripped from CDs, are in multiple files, ranging in length from a few seconds to a few minutes.
Plex will now remember where it left off in a particular file, but I still need to drill down to the right file. This is a good first step, but it is not yet adequate for full audiobook support (gapless playback is also essential, but thatās for another day).
@beckfield said:
This is one step toward audiobook support, but weāre not there yet. This new feature really only works if your audiobook is in a single file. All of mine, ripped from CDs, are in multiple files, ranging in length from a few seconds to a few minutes.Plex will now remember where it left off in a particular file, but I still need to drill down to the right file. This is a good first step, but it is not yet adequate for full audiobook support (gapless playback is also essential, but thatās for another day).
I use a program called MergeMP3 to combine my books into one file its super quick and easy, its super basic but I have been using it for years.
For me the big problem is the marking completed before its actually completed.
MERGEMP3: http://www.mergemp3.com/
I use Audacity [[audacityteam.org/download/]] to merge the files, remove clicks. pops, and repeated sections of audio dramas (Dr Who serialized episodes).
I have continued testing on iOS and I did find it working in my tests, today. I did not upgrade anything but it is working fine for me now.
So it is working on all the clients I have tested, iOS, SmartTV-Tivo, PS4, and web.
Itās working for me in all platforms too! Android, PS3, Chromecast, Desktop, iOS.
My simple fix for having hundreds of small files per audio book is to just create a playlist for each book. Then I sync the whole āalbumā to my phone and play via the playlist. It will automatically save my spot in the playlist as it runs through the queue (and it will prefer to use my synced files instead of wireless data). I didnāt mind scrolling through a couple minutes on the small files, but now I can save my spot even on the really big files.
This is awesome. Thanks for listening devs! I am now completely dependent on Plex for 90% of my media.
One additional current shortcoming is that there does not appear to be anyway to mark a book as read (or watchedā¦) so with a lot of books it will be difficult to keep track.
is there any plan on keeping track of the album progress. Merging all my tracks into a single audio file is not very realistic.
@ttdemartini said:
Itās working for me in all platforms too! Android, PS3, Chromecast, Desktop, iOS.My simple fix for having hundreds of small files per audio book is to just create a playlist for each book. Then I sync the whole āalbumā to my phone and play via the playlist. It will automatically save my spot in the playlist as it runs through the queue (and it will prefer to use my synced files instead of wireless data). I didnāt mind scrolling through a couple minutes on the small files, but now I can save my spot even on the really big files.
This is awesome. Thanks for listening devs! I am now completely dependent on Plex for 90% of my media.
How did you get this working with playlists. i created a plex playlist with a audiobook with a bunch of tracks and it does not remember my position at all.
@FlexusPlexus said:
@lcharlick said:
Seems like this was added in 1.0.2:
Save track offsets in music libraries that have opted in. (#3370)OMG OMG OMG!!! It works! It really, really works! It remembers my position, across time and across devices. This is the holy grail for me - Iām literally porting my entire audiobook collection as I write.
Converting my Audiobook Audible collection from iTunes with: tuneskit.com/
Pretty epic now. Tested m4a and mp3 so far.
