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RETIRED: Readarr - Sonarr for Ebooks Book Manager and Automation

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  • G [email protected]

    I was just getting this set up, this and the music one, because I want to leave Spotify. Hopefully an alternative solution shows up.

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    #34

    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

    https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?tab=readme-ov-file#media-streaming---audio-streaming

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    • laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.comL [email protected]

      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?

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      #35

      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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      • smeg@infosec.pubS [email protected]

        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.

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        #36

        Yeah same

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        • cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.comC [email protected]

          Any alternative apart from lazylibrarian ?

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          #37

          Audiobookshelf and LL are it. Or calibre automation but it sucks.

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          • laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.comL [email protected]

            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?

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            #38

            But how do you get the audiobooks if you don't use Readarr?

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            • D [email protected]

              But how do you get the audiobooks if you don't use Readarr?

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              #39

              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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              • L [email protected]

                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.

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                #40

                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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                • T [email protected]

                  Wait, Lidarr also has broken metadata search?

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                  #41

                  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

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                  • M [email protected]

                    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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                    #42

                    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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                    • P [email protected]

                      Same here.

                      Did you find a good way to export the Spotify playlist and get that torrented somehow?

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                      #43

                      Zotify and similar tools (not those youtube downloaders!)

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                      • kushan@lemmy.worldK [email protected]

                        Yeah this sucks but honestly it never really worked well for me, ebooks are horribly underserved in the media world.

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                        #44

                        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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                        • M [email protected]

                          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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                          #45

                          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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                          • laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.comL [email protected]

                            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?

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                            #46

                            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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                            • M [email protected]

                              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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                              #47

                              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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                              • laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.comL [email protected]

                                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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                                #48

                                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

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