Media streaming
Stream audiobooks from your server
Why pay for Audible when you can host your own collection?
One often overlooked component of a media server is audiobooks. In the past, we’ve recommended Booksonic, but in 2021 a new arrival quickly swept all before it to provide a serious alternative to Audible. Audiobookshelf (www. audiobookshelf.org) is your open source one-stop shop for self-hosted audiobooks and podcasts, and recent releases have even started to add support for ebooks as well.
You can install it through Docker or natively – simply follow the instructions at www.audiobookshelf.org/docs/ for your chosen path. The native installation works out of the box, but if you wish to change any defaults – specifically which port it communicates on (13378 by default) – you need to edit the configuration file at /etc/default/audiobookshelf.
Should you be planning remote access through Nginx Proxy Manager, you’ll need to set the scheme (http), forward path (your server’s IP address) and port (13378 or whichever port you specify during setup), plus make sure you enable Websockets support.