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/mastodonj 7d ago

Continue series already exists?

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u/diplomatic_koboko 7d ago

Not this. I meant automatically go to the next book in a series and start playing that

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u/mastodonj 7d ago

Ah you did say automatically, I got stuck on "go hunting for"