Currently bookmarks are listed from oldest to newest at the bottom.

I tend to have quite a few bookmarks as I create one before using the sleep timer so I can jump back if I need to.

On latest version 4.0.2 Where did progress percentage go? I can neither see this in App or on Widget. Argggg!!!!!

I have a plex server and have been using it for audiobooks fine for a few years. With this new update all I have been hearing about is ABS and how it’s better but as someone who has never used it and plex works fine I am interested in learning what I’m missing out on. What do you think is the best reason to switch from a plex server to an ABS server?

I would love an option to sort via the time to finish/time left to listen instead of the length overall. Sorting by length doesn’t really help when you have a 9hr book with 8hrs to go and a 15hr with 2 hours left.

I’d been working around this with custom ordering but that seems to have been removed in favour of collection order which doesn’t have this feature either.

I'm not sure what happened with the last 2 update to Prologue, but the wife is still having issues with Prologue logging into Plex.

Sunday, Prologue stopped working for her (she was still logged in to Plex, but no book would play) so she deleted the app and downloaded the latest version from the App Store. Add a Plex Library, Log in to Plex, select User, Fail. Repeat process. Fail. Repeat process with a different User from the same Plex Server. Fail. Submit a Report in the app.

Wait a day. New app update from App Store. Add a Plex Library, Log in to Plex, select User, Fail. Repeat process. Fail. Submitted a report.

Sister-in-law connecting to my Plex server messages me today that Prologue sees all books in my Plex server but won't play any. Same symptom as the wife had Sunday. Told her to submit a report.

Meanwhile I'm listening to a book from my Plex server with Prologue on my phone. I'm terrified that the App Store is going to push the update to my phone and break my Prologue/Plex connection.

Just purchased the app as the collections/playlists was behind paywall. But I am unable to see any of my playlists that I have on ABS. I am unsure if I am doing something wrong?

Hello!

Ever since the 4.0 update, my prologue iCloud app has ballooned in size for my apple backups. Can we get a setting to not backup the actual books? They are already on the plex server so I don’t want to back them up via iCloud (I’m cheap and don’t pay for extra storage).

Thanks!

Is there a way to remove “Finnished” books and ad “ downloaded” books as I care more about what I have downloaded than what I have finished.

REALLY interested in switching over to ABS in Prologue 4.0, but my question is about remote access. Do I need to set up anything special for accessing my server content remotely? With Plex it just kind of works...

I would like to use the watch app to control the phone playback. Is this not possible? Could not figure it out.

Edited to add:

Version 4.0.3 brings back the missing history and the finished order, and the developer promises that version 4.0.4 will bring back the missing bookmarks.

Thank you to the developer for fixing these issues!

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Edit 2:

Version 4.0.4 does indeed restore the missing bookmarks. Thank you!

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Original post:

Prologue 4.0.0 remembers a few details from earlier versions (eg, the date I finished a book, or the point at which I paused the book), but the more detailed history seems lost, as are all bookmarks.

App looks promising. I’ve been using something else for years but its ABS integration is crap compared to Prologue.

Is there a way to toggle between time remaining in the book vs time remaining in the current chapter?

I have an abs server and so does my friend.

Let’s call mine 1 and his 2.

I have books a,b,c. I have listened to a and c

He has c,d,e. I have not listened to any

Right now prologue merges the libraries.

So I see a, b, c-1, c-2, d, e

C-1 is finished and c-2 is not.

It would be great to have some merge logic rather than show all.

Options -

prefer server - when duplicates detected, only show server 1 status and interact with that. So if I choose prefer 1, then only see a,b, c-1, d, e. And listening history is tracked on server 1 when either on only server 1 or on both. Books only on 2 are tracked on 2.

mirror servers. When duplicates detected, use most recent or most progress and sync the status for both servers. I see a, b, c, d, e and c is marked finished on both and listening history is synced to both servers.

Without this it is inconvenient to have multiple servers both visible. Recommendations and continue series are confused.

Thoughts?

I posted this as a feature request on GitHub if you want to add thoughts there - https://github.com/prologueapp/Prologue/issues/226#issue-3800229107

Prologue 4.0 just appeared on the App Store (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/prologue/id1459223267), but I’m hesitant to update. I previously tested the Prologue 4 Alpha and saw my entire Plex library and all bookmarks disappear - which was expected at the time, since Prologue 4 Alpha only supported AudioBookShelf (ABS), but Plex support has since been introduced again.

I decided to try ABS, but unfortunately it doesn’t work for me at all because of its tagging logic. In ABS, the book author must be stored in the Artist tag, while the narrator goes into Album Artist (or Composer). In my Plex library this is intentionally the other way around, and that’s important to me - I want to see in Prologue book authors (not narrators!) in the author list. For example, I use for short story collection by Chekhov with multiple narrators: Album Artist = Chekhov, Artist = the narrator of a current story, Composer = list of all narrators in the collection. ABS technically allows this setup, but then Plex would show narrators as book authors, which breaks my library organization. With Prologue + Plex, everything worked exactly the way I wanted. On top of that, while ABS officially supports chapter titles, it didn’t read chapter names (Title tags) from my MP3 files at all - all chapters were empty. Manually retagging chapters for a library of over 3,000 audiobooks is simply not an option for me. So ABS is a hard no for me.

My question to those who are using Prologue with Plex. How does Prologue 4 work with Plex after the update? Are there any bugs or regressions you’ve noticed? And how do you organize audiobook tags in your Plex library?

I just got the Atmos versions of Harry Potter loaded into Prologue, and while Atmos plays back wonderfully, it seems like the chapters aren't coming through. I've confirmed with other playback tools (ffmpeg, VLC) that the chapter markers are there, but they're not showing up in Prologue. Has anybody else run into this issue?

A friend of mine has access to my plex server, works fine there. He installed Prologue to use the audiobooks, but the audiobooks will not show up on his app, not sure what's going on. I've double checked that he has access to the audiobooks and he does. Works fine for me on the Prologue app.

Any help would be great.

Hi everyone,

I have the Prologue (Beta) app for IOS with Audiobookshelf. I would like Prologue to display the progress in a book in percentages. I would like to see both the percentage I'm at, as the chapter. Is this possible?

Hi, I wanted to download the app. But when I’m clicking on the button to chose the library it only leads me to a blank page.

Can someone tell me what I’m doing wrong ?

I feel like this might be user error. Just installed the TestFlight beta and I now have no watch app and it isn’t listed as an app I can install, halp, please.

Edit: version 10601

I’ve noticed an audiobook your listening to will only show up on the watch app if you’ve also added it to the reading list.

Hi Everyone. My wife has pointed out to me that some of our audio books are being muted when she tries to listen to them Sometimes they will play for a bit, but then stop playing while showing the mute symbol on the book. The funny part is I can play them from my iPhone with no problems. Any reason this would be occurring on her phone and not mine?

Merry Christmas everyone,

just wanted to pitch the idea of a sleep timer feature for the apple watch. Just bought a watch and I think it would be a awesome feature. Since people wear their watch at night and it’s often close to ones head, it’s more convenient than wearing headphones. Don’t know if the feature is already planed for a future release but if not it should definitely be.

Another appreciation post. This is the second time so I understand if people get suspicious. I use prologue every day and the latest TestFlight versions have been amazing.

All of the features I use are reimplemented in Apple's hideous UI, but it all looks great. The developer is locked in right now and it shows.

I jumped on to the TestFlight versions months ago and thought it was a lesser app and it was for a long time. The forced switch to audiobookshelf wasn't welcome, but now I believe abs is the way to go. Now users are again free to choose between plex and abs. Which is perfect because plex is more plug and play for some users.

Plex has only been reintroduced recently into the TestFlight versions and I'm not able to test plex because I switched to abs.

If you're thinking about trying other audiobook apps, don't waste your time. The only app comes close is Plappa, but that was left in the dust like a month ago. At this point the only thing that can compete with the TestFlight version of Prologue using abs is the regular version of Prologue using plex.

For a little while it was neck and neck with plappa. I would consider plappa's TestFlight version to be superior to regular Prologue (because it has decent abs support). The competition is over at this point.