Audiobookshelf
EntertainmentHost your audiobooks and podcasts and keep listening progress in sync.
Audiobookshelf gives your own audiobook and podcast files the convenience of a commercial listening app. Everyone in a household can have an account that remembers where they stopped, on the web or on a phone. It also tidies the library by fetching covers, descriptions and chapters.
- Syncs each user's listening progress across web and mobile apps.
- Finds podcasts and downloads new episodes automatically.
- Includes a chapter editor and can merge audio files into one M4B.
What people use it for
Listen to your audiobooks on any device
Mount your audiobook folder into the ghcr.io/advplyr/audiobookshelf container and create a book library that points at it, with each book in its own folder. Audiobookshelf scans the files, and the admin can match books against online metadata providers for covers and descriptions. Sign in from the web app or the beta Android and iOS apps, and your place is saved as you listen.
Keep a podcast archive
Create a podcast library, then search for a podcast in the web interface and add it. Turn on auto-download so new episodes are saved to your server as they are published. Because episodes are kept as files, they stay available even if the original feed removes them.
Give each family member an account
Admins create admin, user or guest accounts in the server settings, and each person keeps their own progress. Access can be limited by library and by tags, and user and guest accounts see only non-explicit content by default. Logins can also go through an OpenID Connect provider such as Authelia or Keycloak.