I set up Plex for Audiobooks and I pretty impressed

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  • Plex-Audiobook-Guide

    A walkthrough for optimal Audiobook experience using Plex

  • Readarr

    Book Manager and Automation (Sonarr for Ebooks)

  • I found there is Readarr, I haven't looked into the m4b stuff though. I'll give it a closer look. I didn't even think about any of this until I saw this thread.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • Audnexus.bundle

    An Audnexus client proof of concept for Plex, providing rich author and audiobook data. Developed in Python, offering enhanced user experiences via Plex's legacy plugin agent system.

  • Install the Audnexus agent (https://github.com/djdembeck/Audnexus.bundle) and use that for metadata for the audiobook library

  • openaudible

    Audiobook Manager for Audible Users

  • If you already have audiobooks in an Audible library, you can download them directly with OpenAudible

  • audiobookshelf

    Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server

  • Plex works fine for audiobooks, but still I prefer Audiobookshelf in docker on my unraid server. It looks good, frequent updates (if something is buggy or missing feature just tell the guy in GitHub, he works really hard on it). I switched from Booksonic despite me paying for the mobile app (I mean Booksonic is fine, I just find Audiobookshelf more responsive, and it has more features that I use, like collections)

  • Audiobooks.bundle

    Plex metadata scraper for Audiobooks

  • audible-activator

    Retrieves your activation data (activation_bytes) from Audible servers. Using https://github.com/inAudible-NG/tables project instead is recommended.

  • It worth noting the OpenAudible folks “stole” the IP from the open source project audible-activator and have used it in their paid software.

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