Audiobookshelf: Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server
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#2Is there an Alexa skill available to navigate and play my MP3 audio books?
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#3Looks fantastic, will give it a try. One thing I like with SmartAudioBookPlayer on Android is for the sleep timer you can have it give a light chime and then a fadeout period - if you want to extend it you just slap/shake the phone enough to have the gyro or whatever detect motion so you don't need to open your eyes and have the light wake you back up to whatever extent. I didn't see that in the app feature list but it may be there, looks like everything else I like already is. Oh, assuming it lets you listen 'offline' with a local copy :)
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#4Looks fantastic, will give it a try. One thing I like with SmartAudioBookPlayer on Android is for the sleep timer you can have it give a light chime and then a fadeout period - if you want to extend it you just slap/shake the phone enough to have the gyro or whatever detect motion so you don't need to open your eyes and have the light wake you back up to whatever extent. I didn't see that in the app feature list but…
> Oh, assuming it lets you listen 'offline' with a local copy :)
It does but downloading is buggy and it seems like the position doesn't sync then, which is annoying
In theory being able to listen from multiple devices is nice though
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#5Would love to be able to host this on macOS!
Great work though. Will keep an eye on it :)
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#6Really cool, I'm going to give it a try.
My current setup is to host the audiobooks in a Plex library and use a third party app like Prologue [1] on iOS or Chronicle [2] on Android which both work really well for offline listening and progress tracking.
[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/prologue/id1459223267 [2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.github.matt...
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#7Looks fantastic, will give it a try. One thing I like with SmartAudioBookPlayer on Android is for the sleep timer you can have it give a light chime and then a fadeout period - if you want to extend it you just slap/shake the phone enough to have the gyro or whatever detect motion so you don't need to open your eyes and have the light wake you back up to whatever extent. I didn't see that in the app feature list but…
> Oh, assuming it lets you listen 'offline' with a local copy :) It does but downloading is buggy and it seems like the position doesn't sync then, which is annoying In theory being able to listen from multiple devices is nice though
Which client did you download for? Been running this in conjunction with the Android app, downloading works fine and playback sync has been pretty smooth.
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#8Would love to be able to host this on macOS! Great work though. Will keep an eye on it :)
You should be able to with Docker
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Oh, assuming it lets you listen 'offline' with a local copy :) It does but downloading is buggy and it seems like the position doesn't sync then, which is annoying In theory being able to listen from multiple devices is nice though
Which client did you download for? Been running this in conjunction with the Android app, downloading works fine and playback sync has been pretty smooth.
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#10I've been using this for a couple weeks now. It's clearly in its infancy, there's a lot still to do. But even with what it is so far, it's very well done.
I'm seeing other users commenting in particular that its syncing between player devices is much more robust than any other tools offer.