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What's a good audiobooks server/client combo? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hi all, I’m relatively new to this whole self-hosting thing and I have been loving it. I have several instances setup on my Debian server except for an audiobooks one. My wife loves audiobooks and asked me a way she can get audiobooks on the fly. I have searched online and found many.

Audiobookshelf is the most recommended one, but I don’t really know much about it beside what I read. Most of it I didn’t understand since I’ve never set up anything like that before. I don’t know the technical details on audiobooks like I do on music for example. So I’m not sure. Audiobookshelf has an app for iOS in test flight but its beta is full. And every client for it has an “in-app purchase” tag and I’m not sure what they hide behind a paywall. I’ve also read that Navidrome (which I already have set up on the sever) works, too but it needs to be “tagged” correctly. I’m not sure how to and what to use to tag audiobooks. I use kid3 for music, would it work for books, too?

I don’t want to commit and go through the whole setup then end up hitting roadblocks. So any info would be very much appreciated.

Thank you all.

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[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Audiobookshelf is great. For iOS I've got a friend with an iPhone who said that Still is feature complete and the in-app purchases are basically just an optional donation.

[–] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

She fucking loved it. She literally deleted the other one right away.

It does have some things locked behind a paywall, but they’re not essentials to the app like downloading a book like other apps did. This one locks some customizations and adding more than one server behind a paywall, which is something I don’t have anyway and she doesn’t care about customization on the Home Screen. I’m still going to buy the premium to support the dev anyway.

Thank you so much <3

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 19 hours ago

So happy to hear this. It's so nasty to me when devs lock essential features like offline playback behind a paywall.