I tried importing an audiobook and it appears alongside the rest of my music library in Symfonium. It looks like Symfonium supports audiobooks, but I’m not sure I’m using it properly. Do audiobooks appear in their own category, separate from music? Do they get mixed in when shuffling songs? I’m surprised to see the author of the book list among music artists.
I’m hoping I just configured my library incorrectly. I added a new library in Jellyfin and gave it the “Books” designation, then placed my audiobooks according to Jellyfin’s recommended layout.
This works, but I think it could be smoother if the main screen’s shortcut panel allowed the user to add specific collections.
Maybe the shortcut panel could have one called “audiobooks”, and it would only show libraries/sources designated as audiobooks, and another for Music that would only show sources/libraries designated as music?
I know this is already old, but I came across exactly this question today. I’m a new Symfonium user, as I just migrated to Android, and love the player. Indeed the best music player I’ve seen by far.
I agree with @TypewriterChaos that it would be amazing if we could do a shortcut link under the library tab called “Audiobooks” and we can associate specific libraries (sources) with this category, and Symfonium would then only show this libraries inside this shortcut and exclude these libraries at all other global views. Like this you could easily tag Audiobooks and integrate future Features specifically for Audiobooks.
I also use eg Jellyfish and Emby with designated audiobook libraries, for these users it should be fairly easy.
If be even willing to donate additionally for this feature request.
Yep, I checked out the global library filtering. You’re right, it’s a few clicks only, tapping home (if not on it already), filter, deselect music library, dismiss the filter pane.
It works, no doubt, and it works good enough.
But for a more seamless integration I think it would be still a cherry on the top if we could have a setting where we can specify specific Audiobook libraries and Symfonium can do special treatments here for these, such as the special Audiobook on the Library tab and hiding these at other from the albums views.
And further custom audiobook treats such as caching the entire book instead of default 3 track caching (or whatever is set), a total playtime length instead of just chapter (track), basically treating multi track Audiobooks as one with chapters, and so on. Small things that are not necessary to live, but will definitely improve audiobook experience a lot, specifically that all other apps somehow ignore Audiobooks entirely. Spotify for example sometimes picks random audiobook tracks from different Audiobooks to play in a random queue, it’s so nonsense.
I’m happy with how it’s now, but this are just some user inputs for a nicer audiobook experience.
