A good solution for a standalone server. But since I use Plex already there’s an audio book plugin for it that I use along with Prologue for IOS.
Audiobookshelf: Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server
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#12What's a good source for DRM-free audiobooks? I'd love to ditch Audible and move to something like this, but I haven't found a store that has a good selection. (Edit: thank you, everybody, for the great answers!!!)
You can strip the DRM from audible books and create mp4s using ffmpeg.
Although, given Amazon’s recent efforts with the kindle, I’m going to say they will probably remove the ability to download books soon
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#13What's a good source for DRM-free audiobooks? I'd love to ditch Audible and move to something like this, but I haven't found a store that has a good selection. (Edit: thank you, everybody, for the great answers!!!)
If you want to sail the high seas, MyAnonaMouse is one of the best private trackers.
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#14I understand the audiobook server, but what’s the use case for the podcast part? You replicate a podcast on your own server, in case the original goes away?
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#15What's a good source for DRM-free audiobooks? I'd love to ditch Audible and move to something like this, but I haven't found a store that has a good selection. (Edit: thank you, everybody, for the great answers!!!)
You can strip the DRM from audible books and create mp4s using ffmpeg. Although, given Amazon’s recent efforts with the kindle, I’m going to say they will probably remove the ability to download books soon
You can quite easily flash you Kindle with new firmware that is more forgiving and abled.
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#16What's a good source for DRM-free audiobooks? I'd love to ditch Audible and move to something like this, but I haven't found a store that has a good selection. (Edit: thank you, everybody, for the great answers!!!)
Iirc Downbpour, I’ve just been using booklibconnect on my audibles tho.
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#17I've also been using this for a while now and it works great. My only complaint is that tools for cleaning up metadata are a bit clunky if you have a very large collection. You can basically go through every item one-by-one, or you can run an automatic script to check the whole collection. It would be great if you could define certain rules to require manual review, and incrementally run the tool to improve the tags…
So basically Musicbrainz Picard, but for audiobooks?
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#18I understand the audiobook server, but what’s the use case for the podcast part? You replicate a podcast on your own server, in case the original goes away?
It can be configured to automatically fetch podcasts and keep a local copy. If you have a workflow for listening to audiobooks then it allows you use that same workflow for podcasts. With the mobile app you can "check out" audiobooks or podcasts and have any listening progress tracked between platforms.
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#19I understand the audiobook server, but what’s the use case for the podcast part? You replicate a podcast on your own server, in case the original goes away?
Yes, pretty much. You can also post-process them to remove ads etc. because you have the files on your own server.
Some podcasts remove all of their backlog when they "sell out" and go behind a paywall, having them backed up prevents that. (How did this get made?[0] being one example)
Also some podcasts (BBC ones I think) add ads while you download, based on your country. Some of my No Such Thing As A Fish[1] episodes have Christmas themed ads in them because that's when they we're cached :)
[0] https://www.earwolf.com/show/how-did-this-get-made/ [1] https://www.nosuchthingasafish.com
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#20What's a good source for DRM-free audiobooks? I'd love to ditch Audible and move to something like this, but I haven't found a store that has a good selection. (Edit: thank you, everybody, for the great answers!!!)
If you want to sail the high seas, MyAnonaMouse is one of the best private trackers.
Audiobookbay has a better audio book collection than MAM. Plus, it's a public tracker and doesn't require an invite