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Yeah this sucks but honestly it never really worked well for me, ebooks are horribly underserved in the media world.
Having to run two instances to support audio and text books was the deal breaker for me.
Now I use audiobookshelf, and it's easy enough to find everything I need on mam without an extra search layer.
https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf
Is this what you are talking about? How dues this work for funding audio books? That's my biggest problem
Yeah, it does a good enough job of handling the metadata which is why I mentioned it. To find books you need a private tracker.
yes that is correct. it is a server/client solution so you can track you progress.
zero finding ability. try Lazy Librarian.
remember that audiobooks are relatively rare due to their high production costs. so a lot of books do not have an audio version. Could consider text to speech.
there are some massive torrents that have like thousands of audiobooks in them and you have to go and select which ones to download. I'm not sure how I stumbled on these in the past so if you figure that out let me know.
I'm actually using Audiobookshelf as my main server. I just wanted Readarr to get metadata and organize the folders. Do you have any workflow tips for that?
The best way I found to do this was using audiobookshelfs upload feature and grabbing the meta data before upload. This sorts the folders for you
But how do you get the audiobooks if you don't use Readarr?
Readarr is just a tool that facilitates downloading via bittorrent or usenet. You can just use those the old fashioned way without it.
Edit: The program Lazy Librarian that some people are mentioning also assists with the searching and downloading, if you prefer not to do it by hand.
You can purchase audiobooks too, especially from authors who make them available on DRM-free platforms.
And there's always https://librivox.org/
No, it's a hot mess. I only get 6 books a month and she is one and done so it's manageable to do it manually
mam?
Just a source. Not a metadata provider.
And trying to find metadata for books is like searching for a music cd from propular artists.
Example: https://musicbrainz.org/release-group/afca53c1-c5b3-3f91-8590-281b0aa12722
They are a beast in itself.
Multiple releases/revisions spread across languages and/or countries.