New User Feedback #1742
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So I'm new to AudiobookShelf (but not to audiobooks having used Plex Media Server and iOS client Prologue for years) and I felt I wanted to provide some feedback and things I'd like to see. I imagine many have already been suggested and are on a roadmap, but figured I'd air them anyway.
Generally I'd say it does all of what I'd want out of a audiobook server app, and so most of my suggestions are around metadata and I guess interface and some of the latter might be more on the iOS client than ABS itself.
Here we go though....
Narrator tab and pages. Being a audiobook person who follows narrators, I'd really like to see Narrators more prominent with pages like authors and a tab on the main UI. Sure you can use filters but that would not be as nice as a narrator tab with profiles as authors have.
Psuedonyms. Both narrators and authors can and do use multiple names. I'd actually like a way to link author or narrator pages
Description fields. I'd really like description fields (like for books or authors) to be more feature rich, allowing for formatting instead of just displaying it as a giant wall of text. Maybe have markup support?
Series Pages - I do wish series had their own page where it has a short description of the series.
Advanced Filtering - I'd really like some more advanced filtering, so I could do things like display the books of a genre or a tag or an author that I haven't listened to or haven't listened to more than once. I'm not even sure if the server tracks number of completed listens. Or above a certain rating if ABS supports book ratings.
DNF - I really would like for there to be a status for books I didn't like and didn't finish, so it's not recommended or can be filtered out when looking at the library.
Tag Searches - I've noticed with the iOS client tag searching isn't very useful. If I search for a tag, all it seems to do is list 5 books that use the tag, and 5 series that have the tag in the title. I'd think there'd be a section displaying the tag that I'd tap on and it would list all the books that have that tag.
LibraryThing Integration - A bigger but nice thing would be to see integration with my book cataloguing service of choice, LibraryThing. I use it to catalog all the audiobooks I buy and read and so integrating with that so that my ratings from there appeared in ABS would be great, as well as even if I add a book to ABS it could add it to my LibraryThing library. Of course I'm not sure how feature rich LibraryThing's APIs are that it would allow for this.
Thats it for initial suggestions / feedback :)
One question. Just how does the ABS recommended books list work? Are they just books with the same genre as the books most recently finished?
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