audiobookshelf VS AAXtoMP3

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.

Both apps require you to have audiobooks as files and download them in an accessible format. If you have audible audiobooks, you need to convert those to an open format first using something like AAX2MP3 + audible-activator

Libation author here. Libation reads directly from your audible account and downloads/decrypts in one step. No aax, just straight to m4b. There's also a setting to convert to mp3 instead. It cannot take existing aax files and do this. inAudible can target aax files directly but it's getting a bit long in the tooth so it's not as reliable as it used to be. I've never tried aaxtomp3.

This: https://github.com/KrumpetPirate/AAXtoMP3 + your audible key (that you can get from https://github.com/mkb79/audible-cli) is all you need.

AAXtoMP3 is the tool you need for that, but if you have a linux system (or if you are willing to set the windows-subsystem for linux up) you can streamline this process greatly

I personally use audible-cli to download files from audible and AAXtoMP3 to decrypt them. Don't know anything about Kobo. audible-cli: https://github.com/mkb79/audible-cli AAXtoMP3: https://github.com/KrumpetPirate/AAXtoMP3

I use AAXtoMP3. You'll need to authcode to decrypt the aax files, with the authcode you could also just use ffmpeg with ffmpeg -activation_bytes XXXXXXXX -i input.aax -c copy output.m4b to decrypt it, its also much faster than using something that splits the files into separate chapters

https://github.com/KrumpetPirate/AAXtoMP3 - konverze audibles do mp3, muze se hodit

AAXtoMP3

AAXtoMP3 might be an alternative here. It does what the name says pretty reliably

You can use https://github.com/inAudible-NG/audible-activator, which is what OpenAudible supposedly stole their code from. And to convert the aax files you can use https://github.com/KrumpetPirate/AAXtoMP3.