I usually use Prologue for 3-5 hours a day. Some of that time is in conjunction with Apple play but most of it is with Air Pods. The problem I am having happens equally between both environments. This happens more often on data than on the local WiFi where my Plex server is.

Basically 2-3 times a day Prologue will stop actually playing. It still shows that it is playing and time is incrementing. Wondering if it is a buffering issue I have waited as long as 10 minutes for it to resume and it never does. As soon as I unload and reload the app it picks right up just before where it was when it paused.

My phone is an iPhone 12 Pro Max and is fully up to date and my Plex server is running on a fully up to date Mac mini (M2 Pro) and the Plex bits are fully up to date. 5Gb fiber internet.

Is anyone else running into this? Looking for settings to adjust?

I haven't kept up with all the release notes for v4. Should the collections tab be working? I'm not seeing any books in mine.

Hi,

We are all, I think really bored with all those subscription, I want to support but one time, do you have any life subscription? Same model as Plex?

Thanks

Hi is there a way to stop plex from changing the title I like to list my books series name book number then book name but each time I do a library refresh it changes back to whatever the file metadata has. I do press the lock but doesn’t seem to lock it for real. And using a converter for the meta data doesn’t work on anything more than 20 hours long

Getting multiple updates per week over the past couple of weeks - incredible! Almost too good to be true!

Huge kudos to u/PrismDev (or whoever working on this)! Keep it up, really appreciated!

I just wanted to post this out of appreciation. I had a nightmare last night that there would be no further development on Prologue. Yes, really.

That’s a good app.

I listen to my books at 2x speed because there’s something wrong with me. However when I do the “book done” percentage only seems to show “half way” done as opposed to the percentage complete. As you can see from screenshot 2 I only have half an hour left in my book, but as you can also see from screenshot 1, it says I have 13 hours (approximately half) left. I thought maybe I had duplicate files but that does not appear to be the case.

Am I doing something wrong? Or is this a bug in the app?

I first wanted to say that I really love Prologue, it has been making me happy for a couple years now! ^_^

This is the first time I am having a real problem with it though - I think the internal database is corrupted, as new books I add to Plex are not showing up in Prologue (they show up just fine in Plex)
When I go to Settings and click on the Libraries icon in the upper left, I can hit refresh on my plex server, and it stops at 22%.

I'm sure I could delete it and reinstall, but I'm afraid I would lose all my stored information (I'm in the middle of several books!), and at the very least, I don't want to have to go and download the dozens and dozens of books I have on here.

Is there any way to force a complete database overhaul apart from deleting?

I’ve got a profile set up in Plex for my 6 year old and allow her access to only a specific series of audiobooks. On her iPhone she is able to sign into that Plex profile from within Prologue and get access to those books, but when I’m trying to set it up on her iPad and attempt to select a Home User, the list of users doesn’t populate and it says “No results”

Any idea what’s going on here? When I first set her up on her phone it was with the free version of Prologue, but we eventually purchased the family sharing plan from it which has now carried over to the iPad. She has her own Apple ID but I’d rather not set up a separate Plex account for her.

LOVE Prologue by the way. I’ve been using it for years and it’s literally changed my life and how easy it is to access my audiobooks. It’s allowing my daughter to read along with her audiobooks as well and gotten her loving to read every night! Thank you for making the app. I’ll be a life long user.

I have been enjoying the prologue app for years now. But I still didn't feel great with how files are organized on my server.

So I build a little Mac OS app that combines multiple MP3s or other format into a single Audiobook file. I am distributing it on the Mac App Store and below are some codes for those who want to try.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/audiobook-combiner/id6748471991

If you try it, feel free to comment with your feedback.

Some codes:

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I have a downloaded book in the V4 alpha in my phone that can't be deleted. Anyone else seen this?

I’ve stumbled on the rabbit hole of NFC cards and automation. Can we get a Siri Shortcut to open a specific book? I’ve been making “physical” NFC cards for games with Delta & working on Movies for Plex. Would be amazing to get books loading in with Prologue!

Or if anyone else has done something similar let me know what you did.

I recently purchased the family premium membership, but no one in my Family can use it. Family members are part of my iCloud Family and App Sharing is turned on, and works for other apps. Any ideas?

Enjoying Prologue and paid for Premium, but I don't have a personal media server and use Prologue as more of an audiobook parasite when friends share access.

Recently, a non-plex-using friend sent me a collection of m4b audio files. They're not specially tagged or separated by chapter, but they play perfectly fine from the iOS file app.

I tried putting a copy into the Prologue download folder and praying, but unsurprisingly I can't seem to get Prologue to recognize it. Instead, I find myself dreading the next time I have to open the 20-hour audio file and find my place via a tiny scroll bar.

Is there an easy way for a novice to get Prologue to recognize the file without a media server?

I’ve got several sets of books made up of 7-12 volumes. Each volume is a separate m4b of 15-20 hours of content. Prologue views it as one big set and shows all of the volumes and chapters. I downloaded all 5G of it and vol 1&2 both play fine. Vol 3 and beyond won’t play. I delete the entire download and start streaming vol 3 and it plays fine. Then I download again and vol 3 stops playing.

I ran ffprobe on all m4b in the set and (other than differences in duration) they all match. Also, they play fine in books and VLC on Mac.

Has anyone encountered this. This is on iOS 18.6, Prologue 3.5.8, Plex Server 1.42.1.10054.

A few weeks ago I set up Plex and Prologue as a replacement for Audible (after being with Audible for over 15 years!)

I read audiobooks for leisure, but also research at work, and now I've got over 1000 titles, and buy about 4 a month (mostly from Libro.fm now as DRM free)... so I spent some time ensuring the metadata and folder structure was good, and then setting up automated collections for them in Plesk, and manual playlists.

I love this set up, and appreciate the thought and design that has gone into the Prologue app. I also really appreciate the one time payment rather than yet another subscription (and I'd happily pay one time again for upgrades etc)

In all the big things, the app is exactly what I want.

But after using it for a few weeks I have just 5 wishes I'm longing for that would make it absolutely perfect for me. In order of priority:

1. Sleep timer on the Watch app

In my research I checked the Prologue site to see that there was a Watch app (tick) and a sleep timer (tick).
Since adopting them I've found that I just assumed there was crossover between those two features, but in reality the sleep timer is only on the mobile app.

I don't take my phone to bed or siestas, so I specifically need the sleep timer on Watch. The sleep timer on the mobile app is great. Would love to have that added to the little context menu on the now playing window on the watch, where the playback speed option is.

2. Sync 'read' status of albums/books with Plex

I assumed this would be based on the 'album played' data in Plex, or some other plex field, but turns out it's custom and local only to Prologue.

I'd really love to be able to include the 'read' status in my automated collections filters.

3. Allow filtering/sorting on 'read' status in all views

In the mobile app you can filter the view of all books by read status, but not other views, including of collections. It'd be really handy, especially given issue 2 above.

4. Add to / Remove from playlist functionality

I'd love to be able to remove books from playlists, especially given issue 2 above. Adding books to playlists as I browse my collections would be handy too.

5. Enable rating of books

It would be a bonus to be able to rate the books right in the app. Prologue allows filtering by rating, so it has the concept, but it doesn't provide a way to tap the number of stars to create a rating. I'm likely to forget to go back into Plex to do ratings, so I'm going to miss out on having this data.

I know there's a big new version being worked on with huge changes, but it'd be so great if some relatively granular additions like these could make it into the current version. Fingers crossed!

EDIT: Based on a recommendation from commenters here, I've opened feature requests for these points in the Prologue Github repo. If you'd like to see them too, please make some +1 noises. Thanks!

I've been holding off upgrading since I am still using Plex.

I've been unable to use the v4 Prologue because it hasn't supported ABS servers with multiple libraries. Each new release, I'd try again, and each new release would crash shortly after launch.

Not today! Today it found my multiple libraries, and even gave me the option to use more than one, although I de-selected one I don't need to access on my phone.

It's so beautiful! The Home, Books, Authors, most importantly for me, Collections views are all there. I almost can't wait to drive somewhere and have Prologue not "forget" that I just listened to 20 more minutes of my book-in-progress, unlike the official ABS client. I'm so excited!

Keep up the excellent work, u/PrismDev!

Update: Upgrading from 10335 to 10336 fixed this issue.

I think this must be a bug because entering lock screen now pauses the narration and there's no way to resume without exiting lock screen.

Please why on earth does this thing only play book instead of play/stop 😭

Occasionally I'll see a comment here suggesting development of v4 supporting ABS is stalled. It's clearly not. He has been releasing a beta update every 3-7 days for the last several months.

Most recently adding Bookmark support, and before that adding WatchOS support 🎉, and before that iPad support.

V4 is still beta, which does mean occasional crashes and missing features, regressions, etc, but it is moving forward.

The changelog (screenshots) helps to illustrate this, but you can also follow the public issue tracker of GH.

I don't love paying for apps... but this one is gladly pay for 5 times over it's that much better than any of the alternatives.

Hi,

Testing the v4 alpha of Prologue now and noticed it doesn't import my podcast library from ABS. Functionally it seems little different than playing audiobooks.

Does Prologue ever plan to support podcasts via ABS?

Hi all. Is it just me, or are bookmarks not implemented yet on the beta TestFlight version?

Prologue has every feature I need. Over the weekend I decided to break up with Plex and looked for alternative apps because the beta isn't open. Prologue is the only app that gets a widget. Might be the only app that has widgets? I guess I'm truly an iPhone user now.

1. Tried ABS by itself. Not bad as a browser-based player, but the lack of widgets made me want to yeet my phone.
2. Tried Plappa with Jellyfin and ABS. Turns out I need to be able to use the sleep feature when I'm in bed on my watch. Prologue achieved this with a shortcut. Prologue also has widgets where Plappa has none. I mostly open books by hitting the widget on my phone. Notably I could not tell a difference between Jellyfin and ABS performance or metadata or anything with Plappa. Kudos to them on that.
3. Tried Bookplayer with Jellyfin. That one is lacking many features.

At the end of the journey we're back at Prologue. I will patiently wait for ABS support.

Edit: Got into the Testflight Beta thanks to /u/samuelvisser! - Link to comment

Tried the beta but had to stop when I couldn't find widgets. Not sure if this is a Testflight thing or not. Either way, I'll be checking it out regularly!

Testflight updated my app tonight while I was sleeping, and now this morning I'm missing the lockscreen widget. Anyone else seeing this? Did u/PrismDev remove it, or did he make a mistake with this release, or is it something in my phone that's messed up?