advplyr/audiobookshelf
Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server
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Audiobookshelf is a self-hosted audiobook and podcast server. Is there a feature you are looking for? Suggest it Join us on Discord Check out the web client demo: https://audiobooks.dev/ (thanks for hosting @Vito0912!) Username/password: demo/demo (user account) Try it out on the Google Play Store Beta is currently full. Apple has a hard limit of 10k beta testers. Updates will be posted in Discord. Using Test Flight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/wiic7QIW (beta is full) See library docs for supported directory structures, folder naming conventions, and audio file metadata usage. See install docs See reverse proxy docs See contributing docs Thank you to Weblate for hosting our localization infrastructure pro-bono. If you want to see Audiobookshelf in your language, please help us localize. Additional information on helping with the translations here. This application is built using NodeJs. The easiest way to begin developing this project is to use a dev container. An introduction to…
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- About
- Features
- Demo
- Android App (beta)
- iOS App (beta)
- Organizing your media
- Directory structure and folder names are important to Audiobookshelf!
- Installation
- Reverse Proxy Set Up
- Important! Audiobookshelf requires a websocket connection.
- Note: Using a subfolder is supported with no additional changes but the path must be /audiobookshelf
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What this repository does
Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server
Repository facts
- Owner
- advplyr
- Primary language
- JavaScript
- Stars
- 14,868
- Forks
- 1,233
- Open issues + pull requests
- 1,242
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- master
- Created
- 2021-08-17T22:00:40.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-10-23T19:58:38.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: audiobook-manager, audiobooks, audiobookshelf, podcasts, self-hosted
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