I’ve had an Audible subscription since 2008, and I’ve listened to hundreds of books during that time. I’ve been an audiobook fan for as long as I can remember. Earlier this year, I added a new type of media to my server: Plex audiobooks with the Prologue app. Plex is an essential part of my media life for TV and Movies. I then have my setup rounded out with a Backblaze subscription to keep everything backed up. After that, I used an Nvidia Shield for several years and recently moved to an Intel NUC with a 14 TB external drive to house all of my media. I set up my first very Plex server running on an old MacBook Pro I had, and it worked well for several years.

The nice thing with using Audnexus, is that it adds proper sort tags so that series show up in the proper order.ĮDIT 1: This was inspired by this Github post: ĮDIT 2: The App I use it called Audiobook Builder, not Audiobook Maker.When I moved in 2013, I decided I was done with physical media for TV shows and movies and ripping all of my DVDs into digital format. If you're not in the Apple ecosystem, I'm sure tools exist for steps 1 and 4. Prologue will give you all the features you expect from an audiobook player, remember playback position, speed up and slow down with pitch correction, and bookmarking. On your iPhone, install Prologue and hook it up to your Plex server.

Install the Audnexus agent ( ) and use that for metadata for the audiobook library

Make sure the book has the proper book name and the author.Ĭreate a new music library and make sure 'Store Track Progress' is checked, and prefer local metadata is unchecked. Use AudiobookMaker AudiobookBuilder for Mac to merge all the audiobook files into 1 big m4b file.

Audio books in plex