audiobookshelf VS Booksonic-Air

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.

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