Mainly that it can mass download audiobooks from a cloud services like Google Drive and Dropbox, but looking for books in a folder structure without a search functionality isn't as great as it might sound. It's good but it's a lot of work, so if your Audible troubles aren't like it crashing 5 times a day, it might be easier to stick with it and maybe use its cloud player on windows if the app is acting up.īound is also great in it's own way. PMS has a web player that will remember where you left off (all of its apps do), but the experience of finding stuff you want to listen to is a lot worse in the PMS web player or any of it's official media players because like I said it doesn't really support audiobooks and Prologue does magical things to make your PMS library work like an Audiobook library.Įspecially if you're planning to stick around in Audible but use a third 3rd party player, you might be just doing a lot of extra work for not much of a payoff. PMS doesn't have an official support for audiobooks, so you need to treat them as music files, but Prologue makes it work with audiobooks really well. I believe you have to buy Prologue in-app purchase to get the option to download books.
Obviously that's a big hurdle for most, but you can absolutely just run it on your Windows or Mac computer and just turn on the computer to download the books you want to listen to. The best way to use PMS would be to have it installed on a decicated "server" computer that runs 24/7 so you can stream whenever you want. I think people underestimate the convenience when they suggest third party apps as a replacement for something like Audible.
Plex Media Server as the central storage, management and streaming app and Prologue as the ios media player is likely the only option that really even has a chance of competing against the convenience of a cloud service. When we are talking about an audiobook player, rather than a competing audiobook service similar to Audible.