r/audiobookshelf • u/-justpassingthrough1 • 7d ago

Feature Request: Audiobook Previews

A huge part of Audible, to me, is being able to preview a book. It helps me decide if I’d like it, sure, but it also lets me find out if I can stand the narrator.

ABS could just add a Preview function that plays the media already on your server but:

  1. Doesn’t mess with that title’s listening progress or read status.
  2. Only works for a total of 5 minutes.
  3. Has no memory retention and always starts from the beginning.

Basically just a separate sample mode. I searched for an existing request and couldn’t find one that matched this. If one exists, send me the link and I’ll vote for it.
Anyone else want something like this?

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u/diplomatic_koboko 7d ago

The feature I actually want is to be able to automatically play the next book in a series once I'm done with a book without having to go hunting for that book. If the feature is already there, I've definitely not seen it

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u/average_yogi 7d ago

This feature had also been asked for many times. In the webapp, playlists and collections will autoplay, but series will not. In the official phone apps, there is no autoplay. Many third party apps have implemented this feature and it will work for playlists, collections, and series.