Bug 12376 - New Audiobook UI
: New Audiobook UI
Status: NEW
Product: Logitech Media Server
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Player UI
: unspecified
: All All
: -- enhancement with 12 votes (vote)
: Future
Assigned To: Unassigned bug - please assign me!
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Reported: 2009-06-14 00:07 UTC by mick_w
Modified: 2013-06-10 14:30 UTC (History)
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Description mick_w 2009-06-14 00:07:29 UTC
I'm sure I'm not alone in using a Squeezebox to listen to audiobooks and it would be really nice if they appeared under their own dedicated menu (rather than mixed up with my music albums).

Something like this:

- Audiobooks
| - Author
| - Title
| - Bookmarks


Any file with the genre tag 'audiobook' or 'spoken word' would appear here rather than under the current Music Library menus. The Author would be from the artist tag and the Title would be from the album tag.

Listening to audiobooks is different to music and the ability to bookmark your position is essential. There is currently KDF's bookmark plugin which offers this functionality (from the IR remote only) and a unasigned enhancement request. https://bugs-archive.lyrion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9450, please add you vote if you think this is a good idea.

I appreciate cluttering up the UI with more menus is undesirable, so the Audiobook menu could be located under the 'Extras' menu (as per the Podcast menu).
Comment 1 kandalf9000-bugzilla 2009-06-14 10:25:44 UTC
It would also be nice is audiobooks were automatically excluded from random play selections.
Comment 2 James Richardson 2009-06-21 08:05:03 UTC
Patches Welcome if anyone feels like writing the plug-in to do this