We’re an audiobook household at Home Hutchinson, and at any given second my spouse or I are most likely listening to at least one whereas puttering round. We have collected a bit over 300 of the issues—principally titles from net sources (together with Amazon’s Audible) and from older bodily “books on tape” (most of which are literally on CDs). I do not thoughts doing the additional legwork of getting all the pieces into recordsdata after which dragging-n-dropping these recordsdata into the Books app on my Mac, however my spouse prefers to easily use Audible’s app to play issues straight—it is (typically) fast, it is (usually) simple, and it (sometimes) works.
However some time again, the Audible app stopped working for her. Tapping the app’s “Library” button would simply present a spinning loading icon, without end. All the same old troubleshooting (logging out and in in varied methods, eradicating and reinstalling the app, different acquainted rituals) yielded no outcomes; some looking out round on Google and DuckDuckGo led me to nothing besides a whole lot of different folks having the identical drawback and a complete lot of silence from Audible and Amazon.
So, having put within the effort to do issues the “proper” approach and having that approach fail, I modified tacks and stuck the issue, completely, with Audiobookshelf.
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Lee Hutchinson
Audiobookshelf! Behold, the unholy melding collectively of my spouse’s and my audiobooks.
Credit score:
Lee Hutchinson
Audiobookshelf
Audiobookshelf is a self-hosted audiobook and podcast server, and after two weeks of use, to date it really works vastly higher than attempting to stream inside Audible’s app. My spouse can now really hearken to audiobooks as a substitute of looking at a spinning loading icon without end.
To get Audiobookshelf operating, you want one thing to run it on—a spare desktop or different laptop you are not utilizing ought to match the invoice, as Audiobookshelf’s necessities are comparatively meager. You may both set up it by way of a Docker image, or on naked metallic on Windows or a number of completely different Linux distros. (The Linux distro installations embrace a repository for dealing with updates by way of your system’s replace technique, so you will not should be manually putting in releases willy-nilly.)