amperfy VS Plex-Audiobook-Guide

You can self-host something like Navidrome/Ampache and use a subsonic app like Amperfy https://github.com/BLeeEZ/amperfy and download your whole library (or cache as you go along playing tracks).

RSS is only dead to those who don't know how to use it or lack imagination, what a weird thing to say really.

Personally I've been using it for a myriad of things ever since 2007, just recently I discovered you can add .atom to GitHub releases e.g. https://github.com/BLeeEZ/amperfy/releases.atom for a nice list of updates.

I like how neatly I can keep track of everything in one place without having to run around the web and deal with all the madness. If the feed is full of crap I can filter it out with www.feedrinse.com

RSS brings order to chaos, it keeps the signal-to-noise ratio under my control in a world bent on exploiting my web usage

Navidrome and Amperfy is what I'm using and both are awesome. Easy to setup and just work: https://github.com/BLeeEZ/amperfy

Here is a resource that you will find useful for audiobooks. I love your old-time radio idea, I look forward to hearing what people suggest for that because I am totally stealing your idea lol.

I'd probably just bite the bullet and update the tags on everything. I've always just adhered to /u/seanap and followed their guide: https://github.com/seanap/Plex-Audiobook-Guide

Prologue for iOS is a Plex audiobook player that is better than any audiobook player has a right to be.

Here's a good guide on how to set up Plex for proper metadata with audiobooks: https://github.com/seanap/Plex-Audiobook-Guide

Depending exactly what you're trying to do mp3tag is a great tool for just managing metadata directly. The Plex Audiobook Guide has some handy tools for mp3tag that allow you to download info directly from audible.

This is the way: https://github.com/seanap/Plex-Audiobook-Guide

There's a whole guide to getting it properly set up here.

Just to throw this out there though for anyone who might be interested in self-hosting their secret project audiobooks and others, to look at Audiobook Shelf. /r/audiobookshelf (what i'm doing) or set up plex to handle audiobooks (as best as it can) and use one of the players listed on that site, probably Chronicle on Android or Prologue for iOS.