Looking into self hosting for this and this seems to be the top answer on the googles but, then again, the googles are shit now so i figured id ask you folk.

  • Red@reddthat.comEnglish
    18·
    9 months ago

    I prefer audiobookshelf. As it has download for offline play. The only downsides I’ve found is that you can’t have it on a sub-folder, and the metadata on my audiobooks are completely trash. So they sometimes don’t map correctly. But that’s my own problem. Once I fixed it/enriched it it’s been great so far.

    And if your into stats it also has weekly graphs and a yearly review thingy:

    audiobook shelf year in review graph

    • Cossty@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      In couple of months I will be building my first server and I was looking for something for audiobooks too. What do you mean that subfokders are not supported? Now I manualy add books to my phone and my folder structure is: Books series > * Book 1 * Book 2

      Or Standalone books > * Book X * Book Y

      That wont work?

      I don’t really care about stats, I have Storygraph for that. But what is the difrence between books finished and books listened to? Shoudnt the latter be bigger number than the former?

      You finished 46 books in 14 sessions?

      • Red@reddthat.comEnglish
        6·
        9 months ago

        Sub folder for the web/API. I should have been more descriptive. IE: I had to have it on http://abshelf.example.com instead of http://example.com/abshelf/

        ABS has a known directory structure for “figuring out” titles, authors, etc https://www.audiobookshelf.org/docs/#book-directory-structure . The problem I had is with the “Series” as I have them all saved in 1 folder. Books>Author-Title(Series, #)/files. Because of my terrible convention and I am probably the only one who does it, it only sometimes matched.
        But after remapping everything (I immediately setup backups so I never have to do it again).

        For the stats, I only recently installed it, in November. So I marked a few books as finished, but didn’t “listen” to them. Thus the stats are all skewed

        • astanix@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          I hate that there is such a rigid structure required for directories and such. Can’t my drive of audiobooks just be scattered trash like everything else in my data life? Lol

          • Red@reddthat.comEnglish
            3·
            9 months ago

            Hahaha. You only have to spend a few hours like me remapping everything and then you’ll never have to worry about the file structure!

  • Shepy@feddit.ukEnglish
    6·
    9 months ago

    I have audiobookshelf, along with readarr for downloading and the two have a totally compatible naming structure configured so it works like a dream. Not 100% sure it was that way at default or if I had to configure readarr to match what audiobookshelf needed.

    It’s annoying it won’t subfolder the server under domain for reverse proxy, but that’s not too much of a worry.

    • Shimitar@feddit.itEnglish
      21·
      9 months ago

      Thanks for pointing out! I was thinking to use abs, but requirement for a specific subdomain is a turndown for me.

      Yeah i could, but that would be annoyng as fuck

  • zedricxks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    9 months ago

    audiobook shelf or plex with audiobook metadata {audnexus](https://github.com/djdembeck/Audnexus.bundle) or jellyfin with audiobooks. i personally use plex since thats what i use and have not had an issue with any books. but i also have audiobookshelf fully setup and working just that it needs a vpn to route into my instance so plex is simpler but both options work perfectly.