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I threw away Audible's app, and now I self-host my audiobooks

14 pointsby MattTheRealOne2 months ago

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rigrassm2 months ago
+1 For Audiobookshelf!<p>A couple months back my son wanted to start listening to some of the series in my Audible collection and I initially set up their family sharing feature but it was really clunky.<p>Took a couple minutes to setup and deploy Audiobookshelf with profiles for both my kids and then a couple hours to deploy Libation to download my audible library (including all the artwork, metadata and extras) and organize it for Audiobookshelf.<p>There are other tools for the Audible library retrieval but Libation seemed to be the most complete client with a CLI and a ready to go container image.<p>Tangentially, even if you don&#x27;t want to self host an audiobook server, I highly recommend protecting your audible purchases using tools like Libation to download and archive your library (DRM free, all the popular tools I&#x27;ve found handle this).
MattTheRealOne2 months ago
Audiobookshelf is amazing and one of my favorite self-hosted services.<p>Libro.fm and Downpour are great places to purchase DRM-free audiobooks. They also both have a subscription credit option similar to that of Audible.