@astlaurent said:
@ttdemartini said:
It’s 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 “album” 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 didn’t 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.
I think the key is that he said he then synced the playlist to his device and played it locally.
Sorry, I was a bit vague. To keep simple track of where am in a many file audio book I never needed this update.
0.(Optional) Sync the audio book as an “album”. This just saved me on mobile data use.
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Make a playlist matching the album.
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Play the playlist as usual.
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When I stop listening, or while I listen, I swipe or delete the old tracks in the playlist that I’ve already heard. This process doesn’t take nearly as long as it seems and its worth the 10 sec up keep.
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The playlist will then be synced across all devices as showing only the remaining files/tracks.
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When I come back to listen, I play via the shortened playlist.
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Now, with the update, I can come back to my last track and if I’m halfway through the track, then it will pick up where I left off. This save point then gives me a little reassurance that I remembered to update the playlist when I last stopped.
I hope that helps. It’s not fully automatic but it is simpler than involving any other audio editing.
I tried this on the web player and it works there. But I the played the same file on my iPhone and it started from the beginning and same on Android. Am I doing something wrong on these devices?
@technicpuppet said:
I tried this on the web player and it works there. But I the played the same file on my iPhone and it started from the beginning and same on Android. Am I doing something wrong on these devices?
I think the trick is to not hit the play button when on your phone but instead press the title of the book itself - then it will ask if you want to resume
@davebredbury said:
@technicpuppet said:
I tried this on the web player and it works there. But I the played the same file on my iPhone and it started from the beginning and same on Android. Am I doing something wrong on these devices?
I think the trick is to not hit the play button when on your phone but instead press the title of the book itself - then it will ask if you want to resume
I don’t have any options popping up or that. I eventually have to hit play or nothing happens. I am just going to music library then browse. On ios i can get to a bit that has play shuffle etc by clicking the title but no resume.
Just to say I seem to have it working on ios now. What would be really amazing is Sonos support (I tried it doesnt work). It would be very popular because sonos still doesn’t have Audible back yet.
can someone else verify an issue i am seeing. it works well on the web player but sometimes when you play the track on android it will ask you to resume but it still starts from the beginning. It seems i can get it to happen every time if you start playing a long track and jump a couple hours manually. Then stop it click the x in the player and try to start it again. it will ask you to resume but it will not resume. If i let it naturally progress it seems to mostly work. I have also seen it happen if i start it on the web play and then resume on the android it seems to not want to resume sometimes.
@astlaurent I can verify that resume will start at the beginning instead of the resume location on my S7 edge.
@sGarver said:
@astlaurent I can verify that resume will start at the beginning instead of the resume location on my S7 edge.
Great. Hopefully a fix will come soon for a few of the bugs
Yes please for audio books
This is great! Hopefully the ability to adjust the speed of the file will be coming soon. ^:)^
It’s great that they (finally!) added this feature. They do also need individual track played/unplayed tracking for it to be considered even bare-minimum spoken audio functionality though.
I’m really hoping they don’t intend to keep shoehorning spoken audio into the ‘Music’ library. It’s as fundamentally different from music as ‘TV Shows’ are from ‘Movies’. The UI and featureset of the ‘Music’ library was designed for music and makes no sense for other audio media.
What we really need is a separate library that works exactly like ‘Home Videos’ but for audio files. There are many kinds of media - podcast archives, radio plays, comedies, etc - besides just audiobooks it’d be useful for. This is a cool first step though and I’m glad to see we haven’t been forgotten/abandoned!
@Smelltastic said:
It’s great that they (finally!) added this feature. They do also need individual track played/unplayed tracking for it to be considered even bare-minimum spoken audio functionality though.
I’m really hoping they don’t intend to keep shoehorning spoken audio into the ‘Music’ library. It’s as fundamentally different from music as ‘TV Shows’ are from ‘Movies’. The UI and featureset of the ‘Music’ library was designed for music and makes no sense for other audio media.
What we really need is a separate library that works exactly like ‘Home Videos’ but for audio files. There are many kinds of media - podcast archives, radio plays, comedies, etc - besides just audiobooks it’d be useful for. This is a cool first step though and I’m glad to see we haven’t been forgotten/abandoned!
Then please vote on my poll above. 
@sGarver said:
Then please vote on my poll above.
…but it’s unrelated? I mean, having them show up in On Deck would be nice, but that’s definitely a futher-down-the-road thing.
@Smelltastic said:
…but it’s unrelated? I mean, having them show up in On Deck would be nice, but that’s definitely a futher-down-the-road thing.
I concede, I was going to make my poll question also include a new library type, but decided to keep it as a single focus and about what I think should be easier/quicker to see implemented.
I am wondering as to what data fields you would expect / like to see as part of an AudioBook library?
@sGarver said:
I am wondering as to what data fields you would expect / like to see as part of an AudioBook library?
Personally what I would love isn’t an Audiobook library, but a more general “Spoken Word” library that works just like “Home Movies” does. I mean right now we have “Movies”, “TV Shows”, and (effectively) “Misc” as the three video libraries. If you have videos that don’t fit the first two categories, you can always throw them in the third. I want to be able to do the same with audio, with the same set of features (i.e. watched/unwatched status and resuming). It could be browsed the same way Home Movies is now, by name and folder, and synced by folder.
An actual Audiobook library, pulling from an open audiobook db and organizing by things like author/series/title/publisher/release date and suchlike, would be great but honestly I just care about basic functionality first. I feel like simple, general support for serialized audio should be the starting point, and worry about focusing down further later (if ever, really).
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@Smelltastic
Pondering here about the ‘Spoken Word’ concept… and how well it would tie into my collection of Dr Who Audio Dramas from Big Finish. 
Agreed. You can call it audio book, but the same issues apply if you listen to old time radio or any other serialized audio. What episodes (files) haven’t been listened to yet. Where did I leave off the last episode (file).
We’ve got half the puzzle solved, just need to track progress through a list of files.
@mdnitoil
So would you agree that how Plex handles tracking progress (and watched/unwatched) for TV Shows would be good for The CBS Radio Mystery Theatre?
