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When you sort by pub date and the pub date is set for your podcast episodes then it should be working. Have you checked if the pub date actually got set? When the pub date is set it will show "Published ..." The mobile app currently only allows for sorting by pub date. The podcast portion of audiobookshelf is only a few months old and could definitely use some help in designing a good user experience. The entire podcast experience needs to be thought through again. We have the developers to build it but deciding how things should function and where should be placed is another skillset. I'm not an iOS user regularly so may be misunderstanding. We are planning to build CarPlay support but I'm not sure if AirPlay is something completely different that we should also plan for. CarPlay hasn't been built yet. Bluetooth should work since nothing extra is necessary for that.

Not yet. It is planned but we are lacking in experienced iOS developers that will help. That feature is available for android.

You are mistaken about #2, but that path is not necessary to map anymore the /audiobooks one. the /usr/share/audiobookshelf/audiobooks is your own path not the path inside the docker container. You cannot use a subfolder yet, it is not supported. This is something being worked on now but you are limited to using a subdomain.

Port 80 is inside the docker container

Currently the only way to do this is to open up the JSON file containing the root user and manually change the password. The JSON files are located in /config/users/data and then you need to find the data.json file that has a JSON object id root. These are not actually valid JSON files because each line will have a JSON object for each user, so don't edit these files in anything that will auto-format on save. Once you find the root user object the attribute after id and username is "pash". Update the value of pash to empty quotes "". Make sure you have turned down the server for this and do a backup of that data file you are updating so if something weird happens you can just copy in the old one and try again.

If you update the server to 2.0.13 this is fixed.

Oddly I just came across this issue, checked my notifications and here you are. This will be fixed in the next server or mobile update. What is happening is the local audiobook on your phone is not linked to an item on the server but is still sending a request to the server to update the media progress. One workaround is to re-download the audiobook from your server so it is linked, or just wait for the next server release which will be set to ignore these requests and will probably be put out tonight.

This is an issue with your specific network setup and is difficult to provide any guidance since there are so many. This is a relatively common issue people have but I rarely hear back on how they solved the problem. I would like to get together a page on the site with all the common setups and troubleshooting common issues, so if you do find a solution please share or join the discord and connect.

I've not yet heard this one before. It sounds like a network issue. Look at any firewalls you have, try streaming from other services, try different audiobooks like maybe a small single mp3 file. Not something I can help much with.

Is this using the mobile app? Android or iOS? Have you tries using the browser on your phone?

Not possible now, but will be added in an upcoming release. The authors page is new as of v2 so still early days. You can follow the github issue for that here: https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/issues/498 where I will post updates when that is live.

In an upcoming release audio files in the root of library folders will be treated as audiobooks

I think you need to completely remove the audiobookshelf appdata folder, remove the docker container, and start fresh. Then share your docker run command if it happens again.

Can you try removing that audiobook and see if you can narrow it down to a specific audiobook?

This is still a permission issue on your end. Abs doesn't have permission to read stats on the files/folders in your audiobooks directory.

Can you `journalctl -u audiobookshelf`

I pushed version 2.0.1 recently, are you using that debian package?

Update: v0.9.41-beta is live on the play store. If you downloaded the APK earlier I still recommend updating or getting the new APK because I fixed a bug with playing downloaded audio files. Heads for anyone looking here after issues updating to v2. The google play store android app release that is compatible with server v2.0.0 is currently stuck in review. If you are an android user I don't recommend updating to v2.0.0 until the official release is announced. If you are an iOS user that app update is already available. If you already updated the server then do not downgrade because it will create further problems with your data. In that case, or if you want to access the current release early, you can download the APK directly https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf-app/releases/tag/v0.9.41-beta. If you download the APK directly then you will need to uninstall the old app version you got from the play store.

I don't see how this is possible. Abs does create the cache folder itself inside the /metadata folder. So even if you set the /metadata folder to the /audiobooks folder purge cache would still only delete the /metadata/cache folder.

This is concerning.. there has been another user report high CPU usage but we weren't able to pinpoint anything. If you have any more info on this please share. Version 2.0 is going to be released in the coming weeks which has major improvements across the board. Are you using Android Auto or Bluetooth? Instead of opening another app first I wonder if opening up the audiobookshelf app then pressing play from your car would also work.

Subfolder in address is not supported yet. It's going to be a big task to add support for this so still trying to think of the best way.

I'm not sure how many audiobooks you have to do remove, but it may be easier to go to Issues then batch remove them. You can remove all audiobooks though on the first config page, there is a button that deletes and re-creates the audiobooks db.

Yeah there is a lot of different edge cases, like books belonging to multiple series. I think the way to go is to allow users to rely less on their directory structure if they choose. In that thread you can see several people are choosing to prefer using their OPF files over directory structure.

Yes, if you name the series folder the exact same in multiple author folders then they will be in the same series. There is a thread open to discuss how to improve this https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/issues/320, but still haven't landed on the best way to handle this.

I know you said you checked github, but I just want to make sure you've seen other threads that may help: https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/discussions/238 https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/discussions/126 https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf-app/issues/36 Your best bet is to open an issue or start a discussion on the github page with your setup and config. We really need to add a page on the website https://audiobookshelf.org/docs with all the details to help with setting up reverse proxy and ssl. If anyone seeing this wants to help contribute to the project, that would be a big help (website is open source also: https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf-web)