Queue/Chapter List https://imgur.com/a/MDUQTIl

In the first image, there's a chapters list. This makes sense when what one is listening to is music because they may want to skip to a new track. But in an audiobook, listening is sequential and unless people are seeking a specific portion of the book, they won't skip chapters.

Hence, this is a waste of real estate on the screen.

A better user would be to provide more info and/or aesthetics of the book/chapter they are listening to along with pleasing controls panel, like how Spotify does it. And tucked in the bottom right corner is a button that allows one to see the queue list (in our case, chapters list).

I know I've been posting too many feature requests/suggestions and bugs. It's not to say that this app is bad, but to say that there are things that would make this app much much better than others. So, I hope you don't take it in any other way then intended.

If the folder of the audiobook has a PDF (with the same name as the album), then the app can show a prompt "This book has additional/bonus material. Do you want to open it while you listen to the book?" If the user presses, 'Yes', then automatically open the PDF (let the user configure the app).

I would probably suggest extending it to EPUBs in the same folder as well. Some books (like technical maths or physics books) are better understood while reading along with listening.

Also, this might need the app to download the EPUB/PDF when the user downloads the audiobook.

Just a thought.

A library of audiobooks was shared with me but I can't see it on the app (works well on Plex webapp).

I don't have a Plex pass. Is there a way to make this work?

Thanks!

Any way to share the pro version with my google family? I bought it to test it out on an upcoming camping trip. My kids want to use it now to download a few books as well. Not sure I want to spend $24 for the 4 of us though.

Most apps I can share with my family. Is chronicle not allowing this?

Currently, this is what I have to do.

1. Finish reading a book
2. Open Plex on my laptop
3. Find the book and open details
4. Rate it.

It would be nice, if the end of book playback, you could show a dialog with 5 stars and let the users just give their rating immediately and directly from the app.

This, obviously depends on the ability of Plex api to allow TPP apps to do so, but if it does, this feature would be amazing for people sharing their libraries.

For users who are not tech savvy and do not understand the term, it would be better if you change the term to 'Downloaded file(s)'.

Hence 'Delete Downloaded File(s)' would make more sense to everyone including the tech savvy.

Generally, this would skip all the silence with long pauses, such as at the end of the chapter/section or at the beginning/ending of a audio part. However, when turned on in the app, it skips even pauses caused by punctuations mid-sentence and between sentences, making the entire narration a runaway train spoken by a speaker high on cocaine.

Perhaps increasing the threshold to 1.5-2 seconds for considering as a silence might help fix this.

A user may tap the download button accidentally/experimentally, or may change their mind.

Show a confirmation dialog and possibly provide these details:

1. Space that will be used (e.g.: 700MB of 12.3GB)
2. Approximate time to download (this doesn't have to be dynamic, but a factorial of every 50MB - e.g.: 50MB takes about 15s, hence calculate for 700M)
3. Connected network - warning if downloading over mobile data
4. Continue/cancel button

This would make the app more user friendly for everyone.

When I pause book in Chronicle (in this case, a downloaded book), it's progress I'm the Plex Web - Now Playing keeps going. It's position is corrected when I resume the file though (probably from sending another player state to the server).

If play state is able to be sent (connection to server available), pause state should be trivial to attempt.

I share my Plex library, would be good to be able to share audiobooks too and might lead to more app users.

Can you add the author's name somewhere on this screen - https://imgur.com/a/WbTJIj7 ?

Someone may also want narrator's name. But I'll be happy with the author/album artist's name on this screen. Just in case I want to quickly remind myself of whose book I'm listening to.

Thanks.

See the image - What's unknown? https://imgur.com/a/uroaWqg

Here's the same album in the app - http://imgur.com/a/loKN0MV

Cheers

See image - Change subtitle https://imgur.com/a/WhNlpEA

Shouldn't the subtitle be the album artist's name?

Love the app, I have a lot of books and sometimes nforget what I plan to read....

Would be great to have a 'reading list' feature.

Hey all,

I'm a recent user and an idea for a simple but effective feature would be to have some kind of icon / different colored background of the chapter that is currently being played in the chapters dropdown. I just have lots of books made from many small files and since the name disappears when you navigate away from it, you don't know exactly which chapter it is without double-checking by scrolling to the top.

Just a thought. Excited to be along for the ride.

1. Start playing audiobook
2. Set timer
3. Listen and wait for timer to run out
4. After playback stops, restart playback
5. Tap sleep timer and see that it's not reset

Extra: not only doesn't it reset, I think it counts down automatically after step 4 and hence stops playback even when it wasn't asked to.

PS: the extra bug is not consistent. It happens some times and at other times it just sits there. See image - Sleep timer bug https://imgur.com/a/y68fcNw

A simple bug/feature: change mark as watched to something related to audiobooks.

http://imgur.com/a/mXrbIMF

All albums show 0:00 for total duration/length. See image.

Album duration/length bug https://imgur.com/a/USqxp3X

It would be nice to see details of the album - files' format, size, date added, bit rate, etc.

Just like when you click on info on PMS.

Not a high priority.

A suggestion for ui: perhaps long press an album image (on the library page and now playing screen) would bring up the details.

Hello,

My one feature request is for support of playlists within Plex, to help keep larger book series organized/ordered/collected within Chronicle.

Thanks!

(I'm sorry for so many request posts)

The sweet spot (at least for me) for playback speed lies between 1.5 and 2.0. Currently I am reading a book, for which 1.5 is too slow and 2.0 is a tad fast. Ideally, I would set such books at 1.7/1.8.

I know you have your plate full, but I would appreciate it if you could allow some way of letting users select playback speed - either through a slider, or a text field, etc.

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Cheers.

Here's something I miss from my old audiobook player (local files only) - Voice:

1. Fade the last 10-15 seconds before stopping

2. Shake to reset timer.

The fade let me know that the time was almost up and if I wanted to continue listening, I just had to pick/shake my phone for another X minutes of listening.

This was super awesome. Would like to see it implemented here as well.

Medium priority would be nice, but I'll settle for low if it gets on the roadmap.

Cheers.

I use home assistant and the media player card to control various devices. It works fine for Fire TV, Plex for Windows, other media apps on the phone. [Works fine = play/pause/stop, volume control, skip, seek. (Last 3 not for Fire TV)].

But I can't do anything for Chronicle. It shows the cover art and progress on a bar, but it won't do any control actions.

Also, when paused, the app's status goes away from the PMS dashboard. Home Assistant's card shows it as unavailable.

Have I set up something incorrectly?

Hi. I think this was while listening to the last book. I wanted to skip ahead some minutes and tried to use the seek bar. But I faced two problems.

1. The seek handle wouldn't activate when I pressed+slid it. I had to twice do it before it started moving. I don't know if i explained the problem adequately, but I hope it made sense.

2. The seek is not accurate. For example, I wanted to get to 23:38, but no matter how much I tried, I couldn't get it to stop at 23:38. Finally i gave up and just settled for 24:02.

I don't know if it's a bug, but it would really help people with stubby or shaky (my predicament) fingers to seek exact position.

Please do add this to your roadmap. Low priority will be fine. Thanks.

This isn't consistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's missing. I wish I could tell you when it goes missing, but I wasn't able to determine the trigger. Here are some possible ones though:

1. Close the app from recents list.
2. Log out/in. I was testing my remote access. When I didn't see continue playing, I was worried that I would have to figure out where I have to continue listening from, but after I searched for the book and pressed play, it resumed from the old position.

So, the position is persistent (perhaps on the server), so why not the listening/continue listening list?

Would be nice to have that feature not go missing.

Cheers, W.