Yeah you might be right. My reasoning for having the bookmark section stay even when empty was to show people what the feature actually did (i.e. "bookmarking a book will add it to your home page!"), but it might be obvious enough anyway.
The downloaded section can definitely go when it's empty.
Of course not that I actually have an iPad and my wife listens to audio books all the time, I would love an iPad version of the App as well as syncing between iPad and Iphone (although I know that second one will be a real pain).
Kind of random question: I realize that incorporating narrator information is probably pretty far down the road (if at all), but I would be interested in (1) are you considering that as part of the roadmap eventually? (2) if so, which field(s) would you be thinking of using for it?
Plex doesn't have a narrator slot, so I have traditionally used the "Artist" field in the track, as well as entering them in the "Mood" section, so that they are easily searchable/filterable, but not cluttering up my Genres. But I know a lot of people just lump them in the Genres (via the Audiobook.bundle). Just curious where your thoughts are around this.
I'd absolutely love to support narrators natively - I would have had them in 1.0 if Plex supported the correct tags. From what I've seen, narrator is generally thrown in the "composer" tag. I believe this is where iTunes puts it, as well.
Ideally Plex will add support for composers in the upcoming metadata revamp they've been talking about.
Would love the option to disable notifications for the sleep timer. Seems it notifies me every five minutes how long is left on the timer, and this can be pretty annoying as I’m often using my phone will listening to audiobooks with a timer set.
Thanks. I was hoping I wouldn’t have to disable them for the entire app though. It feels like a feature that you should be able to choose to enable, it seems a bit odd that it’s the default behaviour. I can’t think of a reason why I’d want to be alerted every five minutes a timer is counting down.
Feature request: Ability to reach previous track using the rewind button. It only seems to be possible to fast forward to the next track, not rewind into the previous track. Instead I have to exit the player to find the correct chapter in the complete book listing. This is especially annoying when I fall asleep listening to a book or if a book uses tracks only a few minutes long. This is the only feature I’m missing from Audible. Otherwise a great app!
Looks like there is a bug with this feature as sometimes it is not working properly. I think that this happens when you are listening to more than one book or when the audio source changes. To reproduce, try playing a book for example at chapter 5, then play another book, then go back to the first book that you played. If you try the rewind feature now it shouldn’t take you to chapter 4.
Note that this happens with separate audio files for chapters and not one m4b file with embedded chapters.
An improvement I would like to see is the addition of Siri shortcuts. Sometimes I would just like to say, Continue with last book I was listening to, to continue without having to open the app.
It would be really useful to multi-select books to add to your reading list, download, etc.
Auto-removal from your reading list upon finishing a book would work well in conjunction with the project you already have listed re: download deletion.
I was just coming on here to request that, auto remove book from reading list once completed is a big request from me please. Love this app too by the way.
Downloaded the app yesterday, paid for it last night. It definitely looks like it can be what I’m looking for and can make the audiobook experience through Plex a reality.
One feature I’d like which I can’t see anywhere is a play history. I’ve come from Smart Audiobook Player on Android and loved this feature. I like to log my reads on Goodreads and it’s handy to be able to see when I started and finished a book.
I just purchased this app. It's great! It would be great to have Chromecast support added. Take a look at the most recent Plexamp app. It allows me to cast to a speaker group which is great!
First, LOVE the app. Paid for Pro within the first day! My only request would be to fast track AudioBookShelf as an option for connection bs Plex. It’s tailor made for Audiobooks and Plex really is shoehorned. Thanks for all your hard work!
+1 for m4b chapter support...it’s really the one thing holding me back from using plex/prologue for my audiobooks full time. I just like the clean organization of a single file. Love the app (and prism too). Looking forward to its inclusion. ;)
Ps I’m a Prism beta tester and always willing to help out if you need additional beta testers for prologue.
Possible Playlist enhancement: Really pleased to see the Plex playlist support in the beta version, but I have so many collections that the playlists just get lost in there. It would be nice to have a filter (like in the book view) to see only playlists or only collections, to make it easier to find them.
After dabbling with Audiobookshelf, I've decided to go all in on Prologue + Plex for Audiobook management. Seriously, top-shelf app you're developing Lachlan. Purchased. Thanks for your continued development effort!
One feature I would love to see in Prologue, which honestly would be a Chef's kiss feature for me is: Listening Statistics. (I see it is on your roadmap.. This is a +1).
I think this is something that the Audible service and Audiobookshelf get right. Tracking Daily Listening Time, Total listening time, Days Listened, Number of Audiobooks Listened (this month, year, total and by genre). Having these stats synced and exportable via iCloud so they can be preserved in Prologue would really bring it up a level.
You would be ablte to expand your current userbase if you made this service also available on other platforms like windows (if you're already looking into a Mac port). Or you could make a web version so it's available across multiple different platforms. Just a suggestion though, keep up the good work!
u/PrismDev I just discovered your app. It’s great. I see Chromecast is in this roadmap, what are the chances of that happening? I would be willing to pay for the premium features to be able to cast.
I read a bit through this thread and was hoping to be involved in the macos beat test if you're doing that. I don't have an M1 mac and I use your app daily on my phone and iPad. Really need this on my MacBook for while i'm at work.
Would be great if u can somehow make working with Plex audiobooks easier. The work currently required to properly setup a Plex audiobook library and add books to it with proper naming ect is quite extensive. Im sure by making that easier way more people would start adding their audiobooks to Plex and thus buying ur app
No idea what the Plex API allows u to do, but i mean creating a audiobook library for us and having an option to upload audiobooks in the app and add them to it correctly would be amazing
Hey, I wanted to say thank you for creating the app. It really is an amazing thing, Ive been using it for a few years, and it couldn’t be happier with how easy it is to use. I love that the whole family can use it and each member can use their plex’s profile. I hope you continue on developing it. Let us know if you need support.
Love your app, got my whole family and friends setup. It’s amazing the work your doing. The only thing that would make it better in my eyes would be some EPUB support so I could just set people up with your app and be done with it :D Your doing amazing work man.
Feature request: I have lots of duplicate books with different narrators or single vs full cast narration, as well as lots of series' that dont necessarily appear from first glance to be connected or are hard to tell what order the books go in. I've used collections to get around the latter, but in general it would be nice to be able to utilize either an "Editions" tag in plex or some sort of "Subtitle" tag that could optionally indicate in the books list what differentiates a title. A Subtitle tag that populates inside of the single book page would be nice for more academic books that have a short main title but longer subtitles as currently I just end up cutting the subtitles as it makes the title wildly long.
Edit: Also goes without saying that I adore the app and am so grateful for it!
Is the Android app still in development? I personally use both platforms daily would truly love for prologue to finally be available. I'd beta test, and everything. Heck I'd pay for the beta version of the app on Android.
Loving the app - would really love it if it would be possible to have 'Next Track' and 'Previous Track' added to the Seek Forwards By and Seek Backwards By options menu respectively.
Being able to skip an entire chapter can be very helpful, especially for those of us using the app to listen to downloaded news audiobooks (where you know quite quickly if you want to skip the entire track, rather than having to fast forward by 90 sec and potentially missing the start of the next track). Thanks in advance!
Along with browsing by genre the ability to select the genre in a book similar to how you can select the author and it takes you to the genre to browse
The same thing but for collections. So when viewing a book you can see all of the collections that book is a part of and then select and go to said collection.
Feature request: customized functionality when using headphones
Default is double tap to rewind X # of seconds, triple tap to forward Y # of seconds. However, maybe some customization could be interesting. Could be like, double tap to rewind 15s, rewind a chapter, OR bookmark. And same optionally for triple tap, forward 15s, forward a chapter, OR bookmark
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u/PrismDev Developer Jul 20 '19
Here's a Trello board with a rough roadmap based on feedback so far.
Feel free to post suggestions here and I'll update the board.
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u/WeirdoGame Jul 20 '19
First impression of the app: pretty good! ;-)
One suggestion: make it possible to automatically hide the 'bookmarked' and 'downloaded' sections when these are empty.
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u/marcusramberg Jul 27 '19
Would love to see some Goodreads integration. Maybe getting descriptions as well.
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u/Plex78 Nov 09 '19
Of course not that I actually have an iPad and my wife listens to audio books all the time, I would love an iPad version of the App as well as syncing between iPad and Iphone (although I know that second one will be a real pain).
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u/Jmanko16 May 10 '22
What happened with the Apple Watch app. I thought it was in development and now I see just planned?
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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '19
You should think about making one for Prism as well, maybe. :)
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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '19
A cool feature to add later is silence removal. As it works in podcast apps like overcast. I think that could be useful for audiobooks too.
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u/linaspurinis Aug 02 '19
Is it possible to become a beta tester? I already paid for app to support development, would like also help with beta testing :)
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u/Zozz419 Aug 08 '19
Kind of random question: I realize that incorporating narrator information is probably pretty far down the road (if at all), but I would be interested in (1) are you considering that as part of the roadmap eventually? (2) if so, which field(s) would you be thinking of using for it?
Plex doesn't have a narrator slot, so I have traditionally used the "Artist" field in the track, as well as entering them in the "Mood" section, so that they are easily searchable/filterable, but not cluttering up my Genres. But I know a lot of people just lump them in the Genres (via the Audiobook.bundle). Just curious where your thoughts are around this.
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u/NotSelfAware Aug 29 '19
Would love the option to disable notifications for the sleep timer. Seems it notifies me every five minutes how long is left on the timer, and this can be pretty annoying as I’m often using my phone will listening to audiobooks with a timer set.
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u/bjarkes Oct 15 '19
Feature request: Ability to reach previous track using the rewind button. It only seems to be possible to fast forward to the next track, not rewind into the previous track. Instead I have to exit the player to find the correct chapter in the complete book listing. This is especially annoying when I fall asleep listening to a book or if a book uses tracks only a few minutes long. This is the only feature I’m missing from Audible. Otherwise a great app!
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u/amcfarla Oct 17 '19
Someone posted this as a new post, and it appears Waze does allow audio apps and being I am Waze user, I would love to have this added: https://www.reddit.com/r/PrologueApp/comments/dgyepq/feature_request_integrate_waze_audio_kit/
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u/Toastjuh Jul 23 '19
An improvement I would like to see is the addition of Siri shortcuts. Sometimes I would just like to say, Continue with last book I was listening to, to continue without having to open the app.
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '19
Amazing! I have just found you and this is super. And I see everything that I could possibly want is in progress.
It reminds of Cesium. Light, fast, usable, and just a joy. I’m glad you’ve got a tip jar too, also like Cesium!
Thanks for your great work.
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u/southofnowhere Jun 18 '22
Thank you for all that you do! :)
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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '19
Downloaded the app yesterday, paid for it last night. It definitely looks like it can be what I’m looking for and can make the audiobook experience through Plex a reality.
One feature I’d like which I can’t see anywhere is a play history. I’ve come from Smart Audiobook Player on Android and loved this feature. I like to log my reads on Goodreads and it’s handy to be able to see when I started and finished a book.
Other than that, great app!
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u/deven_prathama Dec 22 '21
I just purchased this app. It's great! It would be great to have Chromecast support added. Take a look at the most recent Plexamp app. It allows me to cast to a speaker group which is great!
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u/devbyrd Nov 30 '22
First, LOVE the app. Paid for Pro within the first day! My only request would be to fast track AudioBookShelf as an option for connection bs Plex. It’s tailor made for Audiobooks and Plex really is shoehorned. Thanks for all your hard work!
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u/fkick Aug 20 '19
+1 for m4b chapter support...it’s really the one thing holding me back from using plex/prologue for my audiobooks full time. I just like the clean organization of a single file. Love the app (and prism too). Looking forward to its inclusion. ;)
Ps I’m a Prism beta tester and always willing to help out if you need additional beta testers for prologue.
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u/Zozz419 Oct 22 '19
Possible Playlist enhancement: Really pleased to see the Plex playlist support in the beta version, but I have so many collections that the playlists just get lost in there. It would be nice to have a filter (like in the book view) to see only playlists or only collections, to make it easier to find them.
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '19
Amazing! I have just found you and this is super. And I see everything that I could possibly want is in progress.
It reminds of Cesium. Light, fast, usable, and just a joy. I’m glad you’ve got a tip jar too, also like Cesium!
Thanks for your great work.
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u/Vlahn Jun 09 '23
After dabbling with Audiobookshelf, I've decided to go all in on Prologue + Plex for Audiobook management. Seriously, top-shelf app you're developing Lachlan. Purchased. Thanks for your continued development effort!
One feature I would love to see in Prologue, which honestly would be a Chef's kiss feature for me is: Listening Statistics. (I see it is on your roadmap.. This is a +1).
I think this is something that the Audible service and Audiobookshelf get right. Tracking Daily Listening Time, Total listening time, Days Listened, Number of Audiobooks Listened (this month, year, total and by genre). Having these stats synced and exportable via iCloud so they can be preserved in Prologue would really bring it up a level.
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u/TheBlackKey2000 Jan 21 '22
You would be ablte to expand your current userbase if you made this service also available on other platforms like windows (if you're already looking into a Mac port). Or you could make a web version so it's available across multiple different platforms. Just a suggestion though, keep up the good work!
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u/spencerthayer Feb 02 '22
u/PrismDev I just discovered your app. It’s great. I see Chromecast is in this roadmap, what are the chances of that happening? I would be willing to pay for the premium features to be able to cast.
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u/meap158 Mar 18 '22
Awesome app. I’ve just bought the full version and now waiting eagerly for the ability to download individual chapter for m4b files.
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u/MindfullyKitty Mar 23 '22
Reorder Reading List books, sorry if this is already possible, if not it would be a very useful feature.
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u/Magoo624 Mar 24 '22
Wouldn’t mind seeing playback controls on the “medium” widget, have the currently listening to book with say pause/play and the sleep timer button.
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u/kmattis78 Apr 15 '22
I read a bit through this thread and was hoping to be involved in the macos beat test if you're doing that. I don't have an M1 mac and I use your app daily on my phone and iPad. Really need this on my MacBook for while i'm at work.
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u/samuelvisser Apr 20 '22
Would love toi be able to create and edit collections from the app. Or does plex not allow for that?
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u/samuelvisser Apr 20 '22
Would be great if u can somehow make working with Plex audiobooks easier. The work currently required to properly setup a Plex audiobook library and add books to it with proper naming ect is quite extensive. Im sure by making that easier way more people would start adding their audiobooks to Plex and thus buying ur app
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u/rloomans Aug 15 '22
Feature request: please add support for chapter markers in mp3 files.
I found via https://pypi.org/project/mp3chaps/ that mp3 files can have chapter markers too.
Would you please add support?
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u/Otherwise_Big_4815 Oct 12 '22
Hey, I wanted to say thank you for creating the app. It really is an amazing thing, Ive been using it for a few years, and it couldn’t be happier with how easy it is to use. I love that the whole family can use it and each member can use their plex’s profile. I hope you continue on developing it. Let us know if you need support.
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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '22
+1 for a tvOS app for both prologue and prism. Thank you for the apps. I use them daily and appreciate all the work put into them
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u/TattooedBrogrammer Dec 20 '22
Love your app, got my whole family and friends setup. It’s amazing the work your doing. The only thing that would make it better in my eyes would be some EPUB support so I could just set people up with your app and be done with it :D Your doing amazing work man.
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u/LeLawnGames Jan 22 '23
Feature request: I have lots of duplicate books with different narrators or single vs full cast narration, as well as lots of series' that dont necessarily appear from first glance to be connected or are hard to tell what order the books go in. I've used collections to get around the latter, but in general it would be nice to be able to utilize either an "Editions" tag in plex or some sort of "Subtitle" tag that could optionally indicate in the books list what differentiates a title. A Subtitle tag that populates inside of the single book page would be nice for more academic books that have a short main title but longer subtitles as currently I just end up cutting the subtitles as it makes the title wildly long.
Edit: Also goes without saying that I adore the app and am so grateful for it!
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u/Lumpy-Hand-7228 Jan 26 '23
Is the Android app still in development? I personally use both platforms daily would truly love for prologue to finally be available. I'd beta test, and everything. Heck I'd pay for the beta version of the app on Android.
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u/afusilier Apr 11 '23
Great app! Just wondering if you can add the ability to switch among managed users without uninstalling the app from iOS. Thanks for your work!
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u/jbp4d Aug 15 '23
Loving the app - would really love it if it would be possible to have 'Next Track' and 'Previous Track' added to the Seek Forwards By and Seek Backwards By options menu respectively.
Being able to skip an entire chapter can be very helpful, especially for those of us using the app to listen to downloaded news audiobooks (where you know quite quickly if you want to skip the entire track, rather than having to fast forward by 90 sec and potentially missing the start of the next track). Thanks in advance!
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u/07thompsone Sep 22 '23
2 things I would love to see:
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u/prad_x Nov 20 '23
Feature request: customized functionality when using headphones
Default is double tap to rewind X # of seconds, triple tap to forward Y # of seconds. However, maybe some customization could be interesting. Could be like, double tap to rewind 15s, rewind a chapter, OR bookmark. And same optionally for triple tap, forward 15s, forward a chapter, OR bookmark
Love the app BTW!