airsonic-advanced VS audiobookshelf

Airsonic version: 11.0.0-SNAPSHOT.20230217142243 – February 17, 2023 at 2:22:43 PM GMT [Commit: 1397446f979b1cdea283eec89ce4f0eae7d63450]

I use Airsonic-Advanced and I think it might suit your needs. All my stuff is FLAC 16/44 and I have one sampler album that is 24/96 and it plays just fine.

Regarding the likes of Navidrome (I am a recent user, particularly for music on the go) it's a real pity that it's still reliant on Subsonic - why not move to AirSonic Advanced? With many "personal Spotify" apps the assumption seems to be that playing music on desktop or mobile is what most users want. Is there a way to easily stream lossless to an external DAC via the likes of a RPi? Is it as simple as adding a DLNA client to the mix?

I'm running the latest build of Airsonic-Advanced ( 11.0.0-SNAPSHOT.20220625052932 – June 25, 2022 at 1:29:32 AM EDT [Commit: 89e6fe9aec80daf8224c6696f8f86bfcf22c6e0a] ) and I'm having a problem with my database getting corrupted on a regular basis (every 1-2 weeks). I then have to delete it, reboot and let it rebuild, and then it gets corrupted again.

My recommendation would be to not use Plex for Podcasts. You could use Airsonic-Advanced for automatic Podcast episode grabbing and then either play them through that or use AudiobookShelf.

Highly recommend plex/plexamp and Airsonic-advanced

I presume from the version you are using Airsonic Advanced? You're better of posting on their Github https://github.com/airsonic-advanced/airsonic-advanced/issues

For anyone who's game to run another service for audiobooks, I've found Audiobookshelf to be pretty good: https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf

A spotlight on AudioBookshelf, an audiobook and podcast streaming server

The basics are same across most any container, you probably need to map some network ports, and map some storage paths, and then you are pretty good to go. There can be more than that, but those are kind of the minimums. For instance, the example compose file for audiobookshelf does just that, maps a port, and some storage and that's about it.

linky: https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf#readme (JS; GPLv3) and they have their own app, too: https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf-app#readme (Capacitor GPLv3)

Move away as in find another audiobook vendor? Or simply retain access to your existing collection?

Audiobooks from Audible can be downloaded via the UI. They will have DRM, but it's possible to remove.

If you have audiobook files without DRM you can listen to them via any app that plays audio, but there's also at least one OSS project that aims to fill audiobook UI niche [1].

[1]: https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf

Using Audiobookshelf (https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf) and hosing my own podcast with an rss feed. It works just perfect in other podcast apps but in Pocket Casts, that used to work, I can't no longer see new episodes starting from about a week ago. I have never been able to stream the episodes either, just download and listen, this also works in iOS Podcaster app.