Audiobook Hosting (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
 

I want to get away from audible to save money and for privacy. I would like to keep buying audiobooks if possible and host them on my server to stream to my android phone.

I have an unraid plex server at home. Suggestions for hosting and streaming solutions?

Update: I ended up going with audiobookshelf. I love it so far and it does everything I need. More importantly (for me anyway) it's not reliant on a $17/mo audible subscription. Please reach out over DM if you find this post in the future and have trouble getting audiobookshelf to work on unraid!

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[–] 37 points 3 years ago (3 children)
  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago

    Audiobookshelf works great and is very easy to setup using Docker. I get most of my audiobooks through Downpour. They have a subscription that gives credits to redeem for audiobooks similar to Audible, but they are drm-free. I download the audiobooks and move them to my NAS that has Audiobookshelf running on it. Audiobookshelf has a web client and apps for Android and iOS (TestFlight beta).

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago

    Audiobookshelf all the way.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Thanks for the responses! Sounds like audiobookshelf is the way to go.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    Like everybody else here said...audiobookshelf is da bomb. I had an audible subscription for a while and found myself without the time to really listen to enough audiobooks to make it worthwhile so I cancelled. I know I could still access the audiobooks I purchased but I'm always concerned with these companies suddenly having a disagreement with a publisher and nuking a whole pile of media I paid for so I figured out how to download my purchased audiobooks locally to be listened to via audiobookshelf. Worked great.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Not what you're asking for and others have provided a lot of options... but if you still want to support authors and get DRM-free audio books, check out https://libro.fm. It works like Audibe credits and easy to pause and resume membership (more cost effective than buying books retail and you can buy extra credits). They also support a local brick and mortar book store of your choice with your purchase.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    I'd also reccomend audiobookshelf. I'm running it using Docker on a VPS.

    It has an option for ebooks too, but I don't like the ebook interface, so I use Kavita for those.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Sounds like you may have already settled on audiobookshelf, but Plex can easily be used to host all of your audiobooks. You just use a music library.

    Someone wrote a great walkthrough here.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Everyone loves audiobookshelf, but since you mentioned Plex, I thought I'd let you know that you can use Plex to host your audiobooks too.

    Here's a guide:

    https://github.com/seanap/Plex-Audiobook-Guide

    I use Prologue for IOS to listen to them.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Audiobookshelf user here. Definitely is the best solution at this moment.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Tagging along on this question, is there a reasonably simple way to rip audible books to a non-proprietary/drm format?

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