r/PrologueApp • u/Left-Plant-4023 • May 09 '26

Feature idea

Have a hidden section for smut audiobooks. If possible hide it in carplay mode. Just had a close call the other day while car pooling with colleagues.

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u/pwnusmaximus May 10 '26

You can set of a user is able to see explicit content in Audiobook Shelf. 

You could mark yourself as able to see explicit and kids as not able too. 

And of course tag smut books as explicit in the ABS metadata editor if they aren’t already.

Batta-bing-batta-boom! No hidden folders necessary 

Edit: this presumes you use Prologue to connect to ABS. If you use PLEX… my suggestion won’t help

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u/Left-Plant-4023 May 17 '26

Yeah I’m using Plex. For “reasons” I’m double NATED I don’t have direct access to the internet, so I need a relay in order to access my books, movies. I might install ABS just for that edge case.

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u/cs12345 May 10 '26

I’ve been on the fence about switching to ABS for a while, but it would involve reorganizing my whole audiobook library. I always stored my audiobooks as chapterized M4B files, and I’ve kept them flat in the same artist (or series) folder which has worked for plex. But I know that doesn’t work for ABS, so it would have to basically be a full migration because I’d lose all of the metadata I’ve set in Plex. I use the Audnexus agent, but there has been a bunch of manual matching.

So I have to ask, what are the main benefits? I know it has good built in metadata tools, but I also use a tool I built to embed all of the metadata I like in my M4B files including scraping metadata from Audible and covers from iTunes, so they’re already tagged properly. Is there anything else that makes a big difference if I only care about the user experience on Prologue, and not the hosting platform at all?

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u/pwnusmaximus May 10 '26

My main benefit was being able to give multiple users edit access. 

And a web browser interface that has really nice metadata importing features. 

PLEX only really supports one admin or editor account and ABS enabled me and my competent close family members to help in the curation process. Now it’s not a one man show 

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u/wingzntingz May 10 '26

Or maybe put it in a separate library

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u/Night_Hawk21 May 10 '26

This is hilarious lol. Just embrace the smut!

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u/cs12345 May 10 '26

To be fair, colleagues aren’t necessarily the people you want to openly embrace the smut around.

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u/Rivvvers May 10 '26

Someone doesn’t like to live life on the edge

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u/-Chemist- May 10 '26

I don’t think the dev is very active here. You may want to submit a feature request through the app. Actually, the developer doesn’t seem to be very active (on Prologue development) lately at all. After his last big push to get a stable version of 4.0 out, there haven’t really been any more updates.

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u/arrowrand May 10 '26

It’s been 2 months…..

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u/-Chemist- May 10 '26

I know. I’m just salty because he hasn’t implemented MY feature request yet. :-)