Do you have any experience with the dedicated Audiobookshelf app?
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Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 days agoPodcasts are my primary use case (my partner uses audiobooks exclusively), and while it works rather well, I want to put in the caveat that there’s no working playlist functionality in the app, and IME headset controls don’t work from FF for Android.
That’s not a deal breaker for me, but it was a massive disappointment when I switched over. But the lack of playlist functionality in the app only annoys me when I want to follow one of the shorter news feeds, since I have to stop and select the next track every 5 min as the episode ends. No issue with that feed from the browser, so meh.
Works great through my reverse proxy/cloudflare tunnel setup, so not too many actual complaints.
DrDystopia@lemy.lol 3 days ago
Jolteon@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
The Android app works well. I rarely have issues with it, except when switching back and forth between the web player and and the app, when it sometimes doesn’t properly sync progress fast enough.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yes, the android app is my preferred method of accessing my server. It works great, other than on rare occasions when it gets killed in the background for some reason, and my complaint about playlists from the previous comment is a much bigger irritation, but a very minor complaint.
vividspecter@lemm.ee 2 days ago
There’s a player queue functionality (which works kind of like a playlist) but I don’t think it transfers across devices. But you can at least queue up a bunch of tracks on a device.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’ve tried to use the playlist feature on my device a couple of times, but I still had to manually start the next episode. I might try again and see if I can figure it out.
vividspecter@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Maybe post an issue report on their github. The queue function does work on desktop at least (the web client), but I don’t bother with playlists.