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Audiobooks and podcasts
Solomorph treats anything long-form — an audiobook, a podcast episode, or just a very long track — differently from a song, and keeps it out of your music shelves on purpose.
What counts as long-form
A track counts as long-form if its media type is tagged audiobook or podcast, if it carries a long-form genre tag, or if it’s sitting in a folder path that reads as a book. Any of the three is enough.
Resume position is a slightly wider net: it applies to every long-form track, but also to any track at all once it passes a length threshold — so a 40-minute DJ set picks up where you left off too, without needing to be labeled a book to get that behavior.
Why it has its own shelf
Long-form audio is excluded from the music shelves and from shuffle entirely. A three-hour audiobook chapter turning up in a shuffled mix isn’t a feature, and being unable to find it again if it did wouldn’t be either — so it gets its own place instead of hiding in one built for songs.
The one thing that actually controls this
Tag the genre — folder names don't reach the client
On Navidrome, every track reports as ordinary music at the protocol level, and the file path the server sends is built from tags rather than read from the actual filesystem — so a folder named “Audiobooks” never reaches Solomorph at all. Genre is the one classifier that reliably survives the trip from server to client. If something isn’t being picked up as long-form, tag its genre rather than reorganizing folders — the folder structure is invisible from here no matter how it’s arranged.