I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music

Re:I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music by bodge5000 on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @10:49PM (#35463501)

Does plex have anything for audiobooks (preferably streaming with the option to download locally)? I quit audible after they removed desktop support but I managed to get all my books out of their DRM, but right now they just sit on an external ssd and I have to manually load them onto whatever laptop I'm using (which also means they don't keep their place between devices)

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Re:I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music by cridenour on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @10:57PM (#35463565)

Prologue for iOS is a Plex audiobook player that is better than any audiobook player has a right to be.

Here's a good guide on how to set up Plex for proper metadata with audiobooks: https://github.com/seanap/Plex-Audiobook-Guide

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Re:I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music by bodge5000 on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @11:02PM (#35463601)

I've never used plex so this might be completely out of the ordinary for even more normal plex use cases, but is there a web client?

I use Android, iPadOS, Fedora Linux, MacOS and possibly in the future Windows (my last job required it, my next job might too) and unless the standard plex app supports audiobooks I doubt I'll find much consistency using native apps for each of those operating systems, if they even exist on all of them

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Re:I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music by LynxInLA on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @11:30PM (#35463809)

Yes, they have a web client, but their audiobook support is not great. Plex is primarily geared towards music (albums/tracks), and the podcast support is built on top of it by independent clients. I recommend Prologue for iOS and Chronicle for Android.

I've heard good things about audiobookshelf [1] as a cross-platform alternative, but it is pretty early in development.

[1] https://www.audiobookshelf.org/

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Re:I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music by ajdude on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @11:10PM (#35463666)

Seconding Prologue. I have successfully listened to many audiobooks with it on Plex

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Re:I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music by Arn_Thor on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @02:55AM (#35521735)

I'd never thought to use Plex with audiobooks before but this post and guide got me started. Now I've got all my [Amazon audiobook service] books saved safely for when someone inevitably tries to pull the plug on it. And streaming through Prologue is a way better experience than the commercial option

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Re:I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music by gigel82 on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @11:11PM (#35463677)

I recommend https://www.audiobookshelf.org/ for self-host audiobooks; they have apps for Android and iOS (you need TestFlight for the iOS one though).

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Re:I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music by Cyph0n on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @11:30PM (#35463805)

Seconding audiobookshelf. The web player and apps are both pretty good.

In general, I think a dedicated app for the content of interest typically works better than a general media server like Plex or Jellyfin. The same applies to books (Calibre/Calibre Web) and comics/manga (Komga).

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Re:I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music by hanklazard on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @11:27PM (#35463795)

+1 for this project and I’m currently testing out the built-in podcast server

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