RETIRED: Readarr - Sonarr for Ebooks Book Manager and Automation
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(I am not affiliated with the project at all, just an end user.)
Announcement: Retirement of Readarr
We would like to announce that the Readarr project has been retired. This difficult decision was made due to a combination of factors: the project's metadata has become unusable, we no longer have the time to remake or repair it, and the community effort to transition to using Open Library as the source has stalled without much progress.
Third-party metadata mirrors exist, but as we're not involved with them at all, we cannot provide support for them. Use of them is entirely at your own risk. The most popular mirror appears to be rreading-glasses.
Without anyone to take over Readarr development, we expect it to wither away, so we still encourage you to seek alternatives to Readarr.
Key Points
- Effective Immediately: The retirement takes effect immediately. Please stay tuned for any possible further communications.
- Support Window: We will provide support during a brief transition period to help with troubleshooting non metadata related issues.
- Alternative Solutions: Users are encouraged to explore and adopt any other possible solutions as alternatives to Readarr.
- Opportunities for Revival: We are open to someone taking over and revitalizing the project. If you are interested, please get in touch.
- Gratitude: We extend our deepest gratitude to all the contributors and community members who supported Readarr over the years.
Thank you for being part of the Readarr journey. For any inquiries or assistance during this transition, please contact our team.
Sincerely,
The Servarr TeamThe github repo has been archived.
That's why that docker pull couldn't find it earlier
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I was just getting this set up, this and the music one, because I want to leave Spotify. Hopefully an alternative solution shows up.
I can't offer any specific advice but there seem to be a great many projects going to fill this need:
https://alternativeto.net/software/spotify/?license=opensource&platform=self-hosted
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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?
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
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I'm generally pretty happy with LazyLibrarian. I know people get really excited about the *arr stack, but Readarr never worked well for ebooks. It was maybe a little better at finding audiobooks, but LL is getting better at that.
Yeah same
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Any alternative apart from lazylibrarian ?
Audiobookshelf and LL are it. Or calibre automation but it sucks.
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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?
But how do you get the audiobooks if you don't use Readarr?
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But how do you get the audiobooks if you don't use Readarr?
wrote last edited by [email protected]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/
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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
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Wait, Lidarr also has broken metadata search?
The metadata proxy that mirrors musicbrainz DB is broken (read: Imploded).
For now artist/album search is broken.
Dunno about metadata-tagging for existing entries -
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.
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Same here.
Did you find a good way to export the Spotify playlist and get that torrented somehow?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Zotify and similar tools (not those youtube downloaders!)
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Yeah this sucks but honestly it never really worked well for me, ebooks are horribly underserved in the media world.
They're kind of small enough that if I want a PDF, I can just google it and download it from some random foreign university who are hosting it for some reason. You'd likely struggle to find more obscure stuff that way though.
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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
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.
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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
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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
It's sort of weird to upload because it's already on the hard drive where I want it to go.. Just has to get squeezed back and forth through the pipes of my LAN a few times to go through this process.
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It's sort of weird to upload because it's already on the hard drive where I want it to go.. Just has to get squeezed back and forth through the pipes of my LAN a few times to go through this process.
Yeah it's not perfect. I normally just download and upload from my phone so works for me but it's not a very automated or neat solution but it does work and uploads don't take to long
