Booksonic-Air VS Audnexus.bundle

You should check out booksonic, works pretty well, fully open-source

Booksonic-air may be a good fit, it's directory based, and the search is pretty good. https://github.com/popeen/Booksonic-Air

You can check out booksonic https://booksonic.org/ pretty simple docker setup, its free and works fine with a basic a web ui.

mkdir /home/nginx/Tools/booksonic-air cd /home/nginx/Tools/booksonic-air wget https://github.com/popeen/Booksonic-Air/releases/download/v2112.2.0/booksonic.war chown -R nginx:nginx /home/nginx/Tools/booksonic-air/ /usr/lib/jvm/jdk-18/bin/java -jar /home/nginx/Tools/booksonic-air/booksonic.war -Dserver.port=4141

Getting back to the topic at hand. I looked in the Github project https://github.com/popeen/Booksonic-Air but I couldn't find any documentation for the REST API. Is there none or did I miss something?

I don't know of any app that will synch between different devices but I went ahead and set up my own Booksonic server. This allows me to listen through any browser or through the Android app.

Booksonic Air 2201.1.0, https://github.com/popeen/Booksonic-Air/releases/tag/v2201.1.0

https://github.com/djdembeck/Audnexus.bundle gets you meta-data updating.

Also I noticed Audiobook.bundle is no longer being actively worked on and has been moved to a different project, Audnexus. If you want to try it, I would use Audnexus because it has a release in March.

If you don't know about Plex, it's a service where you set up your own media server. It's not designed with Audiobooks in mind but I created a Music Library and only put Audiobooks in it. Plex is great and for regular media it will scan all your files and organize it and all the the details, summaries, catalogue and everything as if it were a regular streaming services; but since it's not designed for audiobooks you need to add an audiobook source for it to pull details from. I added Audnexus as my source, it works great.

Third-party metadata agents/scanners still work (e.g. Audnexus is a popular one for getting better audiobook metadata), but there are very few others that do. Ones that relied on their own UI (e.g. anything that integrated with services like Spotify, YouTube, etc) don't work anymore, and haven't for 4+ years. You'll see their entry in the Plugins menu in your server settings, but you can't do anything beyond that because the UI it relied on was removed.

Yes, it's fairly common. In lieu of "official" support, the third-party agent Audnexus can help with organizing things, pulling from online databases that the regular Plex Music agent doesn't (e.g. Audible), and setting tags that can help with navigation (e.g. setting the Style to the narrator, so you can filter to specific narrators).