Comment on RETIRED: Readarr - Sonarr for Ebooks Book Manager and Automation

• laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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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  • murky0106@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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    • laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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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      • murky0106@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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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  • doodledup@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Readarr is just a tool that facilitates downloading via bittorrent or usenet. You can just use those the old fashioned way without it.

      You can purchase audiobooks too, especially from authors who make them available on DRM-free platforms.

      And there’s always librivox.org

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  • lemming741@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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• madcaesar@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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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  • lemming741@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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  • laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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• philpo@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  mam?

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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: musicbrainz.org/…/afca53c1-c5b3-3f91-8590-281b0aa…

    They are a beast in itself.
    Multiple releases/revisions spread across languages and/or countries.

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