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by NoMoreNicksLeft 1094 days ago
Only to import metadata. But for actual functionality that's set in stone... the interface clearly believes that any audio file is music.

Hell, I have a stand-up comedy library... and if you pull up the Steve Martin album, it suggests his banjo music. You know, both audio files both Steven Martin (the man's been awarded Grammies for both, it seems).

The absolute minimum they might give us is just a different icon for audio books and for comedy. Chosen at library creation time, and no other changes. Even that's too much though.

> Don’t know about ebooks

Ebooks would require changes to the mobile clients in particular. No one's reading an ebook on Plex HTPC.

These changes aren't staggering in their complexity, they aren't horrendous endeavors. They're pretty cheap/easy. They have no interest.

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Yeah for sure on the server side it's not set up with that knowledge, and Plexamp as an audio client is very radio-music-centric, but I agree with Arn_Thor that 3rd-party clients can help bridge that gap.

I've fully switched my audiobook client on iOS to Prologue, it's as full-featured as BookPlayer (playback speeds, chapters, remembered place, sleep mode, etc) but instead of managing media on my phone manually, I'm hosting it in Plex.