Audiobookshelf: Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server

senectus1 wrote: post #4

agnishom wrote: post #3

I host this on my homeserver. Pretty nice app so far.

been using it for a couple of years now. its an absolute cracker. Pity the iOS app is almost impossible to get.

On iOS you can use the plappa client. It’s open source and works well in my experience.

Re: Audiobookshelf: Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server

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Post by senectus1 » Fri, May 09, 2025, 6:35 AM UTC

rthz wrote: post #6

senectus1 wrote: post #4

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been using it for a couple of years now. its an absolute cracker. Pity the iOS app is almost impossible to get.

On iOS you can use the plappa client. It’s open source and works well in my experience.

oh nice, I'll have a look into that. thanks!

Re: Audiobookshelf: Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server

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Post by InsideOutSanta » Fri, May 09, 2025, 7:05 AM UTC

What'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!!!)

Re: Audiobookshelf: Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server

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Post by Arn_Thor » Fri, May 09, 2025, 7:07 AM UTC

InsideOutSanta wrote: post #8

What'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!!!)

Audible books can be.. liberated from such encumbrances. There’s a program called Libation.

Re: Audiobookshelf: Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server

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Post by TheAceOfHearts » Fri, May 09, 2025, 7:07 AM UTC

I'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 whenever you have a bit of free time to clean up your collection.

But the ideal solution would be to have some way of generating fingerprints for each audiobook, and then build up a database which matches that fingerprint to the correct metadata. That way the work of organizing and tagging large collections could be crowdsourced; this is what other communities have done.

Maybe we're not too far off from AI-assisted tools that can just figure out how to properly tag a bunch of items correctly just by looking at the filename and existing metadata. Maybe even picking up on additional contextual clues by listening to a little bit of a chapter, to check if the title of the work is mentioned at the start.