Been +1’ing these for over a year now, still holding out that it’s coming! (Wouldn’t be too much to ask to get someone from Plex to drop in and say “Yeah we have some people coding that in still”, just so we know you haven’t given up or shelved it
Throwing in my 2 cents
From an audiobook perspective and in priority i would suggest the following:
- separate category from music (different icon perhaps a book)
- treat albums as books (album title as Book Title, album artist as Author etc)
2.1. keep track of listening position per book
2.2. show progress through book (ie combine total run length of all tracks in the book)
2.3. it is the unit of sync (ie a sync a book) - sleep timer in the UI (easilly accessible)
- skip buttons (1,5,30 minutes) with a run length that can run into 40-50 hours sliding a slider is almost impossible
- automatic download of covers and descriptions (perhaps amazon, etc)
nice to have
6. auto sleep reset - when sleep timer is started, automatically restart the timer when any action is done in the UI (including volume change) since it indicates attention / lack of sleep
7. show track number together with track title field (on player and in list). Quite often audiobook comes with a 20-200 tracks with the same name ie the same Chapter name.
@Linust said:
Throwing in my 2 centsFrom an audiobook perspective and in priority i would suggest the following:
- separate category from music (different icon perhaps a book)
- treat albums as books (album title as Book Title, album artist as Author etc)
2.1. keep track of listening position per book
2.2. show progress through book (ie combine total run length of all tracks in the book)
2.3. it is the unit of sync (ie a sync a book)- sleep timer in the UI (easilly accessible)
- skip buttons (1,5,30 minutes) with a run length that can run into 40-50 hours sliding a slider is almost impossible
- automatic download of covers and descriptions (perhaps amazon, etc)
nice to have
6. auto sleep reset - when sleep timer is started, automatically restart the timer when any action is done in the UI (including volume change) since it indicates attention / lack of sleep
7. show track number together with track title field (on player and in list). Quite often audiobook comes with a 20-200 tracks with the same name ie the same Chapter name.
Great list I agree with what you have said
@JakeReindl said:
Been +1’ing these for over a year now, still holding out that it’s coming! (Wouldn’t be too much to ask to get someone from Plex to drop in and say “Yeah we have some people coding that in still”, just so we know you haven’t given up or shelved it
I am at the point that I worry that this feature request has evolved to be far larger than originally requested and since the original request was fulfilled to and extent this has been pushed to the side. I would like to make a new request or change the first post here to update to what we are requesting now. Without any word from plex I do not know the best course of action and I do not want to loose the number of likes/votes that the first post here has received and lose our highly popular status.
@JakeReindl yes i agree this thread is growing to be a bit overwhelming.
Without a sign of interest from Plex devs i do not think we should start a new thread though.
I am glad I am a yearly subscriber and not lifetime. I am very happy paying for their service, but if Emby or someone else steps up to fill a (so far and allegedly) ignored need from a large number of users, I also do not mind spending my coin elsewhere.
Not that I am unhappy with Plex. I am very happy with them. But if someone can make me happier, that’s where I’ll go. I guess what I’m saying is, don’t rest on your laurels. This is an age where code is almost advanced enough to write code, and if you don’t provide a service, someone else will.
My audiobook library just reached 200 albums.
That’s 200 personally ripped, (file-split) chapterized, fully embed/local tagged albums with custom artist posters and hi-res and/or custom album posters. By me. Googling “War and Peace table of contents”, and tagging each track title with its in-book chapter name.
I’ve been listening to audiobooks a lot lately. Using Plex. I don’t use the Audible app. I remember what track I was on with photos or screenshots.
It REALLY would be helpful if Plex could remember what track I was on. Screenshotting my phone to remember where I was is rather bothersome.
@JakeReindl said:
I am glad I am a yearly subscriber and not lifetime.
You do realize, don’t you, that if you have an annual Plex Pass for 3 years, you’ve basically paid for a lifetime membership right there? The longer you pay for a Pass, the higher the price of a Pass is for you. Effectively, Plex is getting more money from you in the long term, not less, by you holding off on buying a lifetime Pass. Therefore, your being an annual subscriber is better for them, not worse.
@chyron8472 said:
My audiobook library just reached 200 albums.That’s 200 personally ripped, (file-split) chapterized, fully embed/local tagged albums with custom artist posters and hi-res and/or custom album posters. By me. Googling “War and Peace table of contents”, and tagging each track title with its in-book chapter name.
I’ve been listening to audiobooks a lot lately. Using Plex. I don’t use the Audible app. I remember what track I was on with photos or screenshots.
It REALLY would be helpful if Plex could remember what track I was on. Screenshotting my phone to remember where I was is rather bothersome.
That is exactly why I took the time to go and merge all my books into one file. Since plex does not currently keep track of album progress it is much easier to have one file that it keeps progress on than me keeping track of which track I am listening too.
@drummondst said:
@chyron8472 said:
My audiobook library just reached 200 albums.That’s 200 personally ripped, (file-split) chapterized, fully embed/local tagged albums with custom artist posters and hi-res and/or custom album posters. By me. Googling “War and Peace table of contents”, and tagging each track title with its in-book chapter name.
I’ve been listening to audiobooks a lot lately. Using Plex. I don’t use the Audible app. I remember what track I was on with photos or screenshots.
It REALLY would be helpful if Plex could remember what track I was on. Screenshotting my phone to remember where I was is rather bothersome.
That is exactly why I took the time to go and merge all my books into one file. Since plex does not currently keep track of album progress it is much easier to have one file that it keeps progress on than me keeping track of which track I am listening too.
But I’ve listened to Harry Potter umpteen times, and there is many a time when I want to start listening to a book at the 3rd chapter or so, when the first chapter is about Voldemort and the second is with the Dursleys. Plus, I like the look of tagged chapter titles and for the seek bar to show the chapter length. A single m4a/b or even m4v wouldn’t do that. Plus, Plex for Roku doesn’t seek well when using single super-long music files (I’ve tried this, having tested m4b files muxed losslessly from aax).
But I’ve listened to Harry Potter umpteen times, and there is many a time when I want to start listening to a book at the 3rd chapter or so, when the first chapter is about Voldemort and the second is with the Dursleys. Plus, I like the look of tagged chapter titles and for the seek bar to show the chapter length. A single m4a/b or even m4v wouldn’t do that. Plus, Plex for Roku doesn’t seek well when using single super-long music files (I’ve tried this, having tested m4b files muxed losslessly from aax).
I am behind you 100% that is how it should be. With split mp3 files or a m4b file I am just saying. In the current state I decided to do it this way because I would rather has the ease of resuming quicker over that
+1 Please please add something… i just cant do anything with my audio books that isn’t a mess
Saving the audio position should be an easy thing to implement and would be greatly appreciated.
@brian@carty.com said:
Saving the audio position should be an easy thing to implement and would be greatly appreciated.
This has been added already to Plex you just need to select store playback position when you creat a music library
@davebredbury said:
@brian@carty.com said:
Saving the audio position should be an easy thing to implement and would be greatly appreciated.This has been added already to Plex you just need to select store playback position when you creat a music library
At best this has been added 50%. You cannot resume playback from an album you have to select the specific track you were on
@drummondst said:
You cannot resume playback from an album you have to select the specific track you were on
Yes, this is the Point. The save function is useless without remembering the last heard track.
basically just take VIDEO, and switch to MP3 files… I like how video displays movies, and remember feature… or even the TV Shows.
+1 Please!
+1 please!
+1 I want!!!
It is crazy you guys don’t have this. Since you have it for movies it should be very easy to add to audio…
+1 this Audiobook mess is getting really annoying by now.
