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Audiobookshelf uses socket.io, they have a page in their docs about setting up reverse proxy: https://socket.io/docs/v3/reverse-proxy/

I'm not sure about SWAG, but some reverse proxy setups were shared and added to the github docs recently: https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf#reverse-proxy-set-up Not sure if you saw that or not. The web socket step seems to be what is tripping people up.

I agree. You are hitting on a bunch of topics brought up today, I just added support for sorting by those columns: https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/issues/128 Consider checking out some of the ideas people are sharing on github

The author name is a bug, I will update this in the next update, it should be showing you First Last. You are misunderstanding the button. That saves a text file in your audiobook folder with the current book details and metadata. That button may get removed, I'm not sure if it useful yet. There is no metadata getting pulled from the web. The only web request that would be made is if you have turned on the "Scanner find Covers" setting then it will lookup a cover only if a cover is not set yet. The original plan was to have auto-populated metadata like Calibre, but it was not reliable and the current sources for that data are not good, so I scrapped it. I think that is a big project down the road. I didn't plan for the year to be wrapped in parentheses, but seeing your folder structure now I think it makes sense and I will add it in the next release. This is the current title folder naming convention supported: https://www.audiobookshelf.org/docs#naming

This could be considered a bug. The "Re-Scan" button was intended to scan audio file ID3 tags again, which it does for everything except track #. I will need to update this to set the track number from metadata and track number from filename fields, BUT I don't want to override the current track order incase manual adjustments were made. Hopefully that makes sense, I need to update the docs. Doing a regular library scan will only probe the audio file metadata the first time it is seen, because it is a time consuming task. Beautiful collection, and well organized. I did a scroll through and it looks like the scanner should be handling this well. The filenames with CD may have trouble parsing the track number out of it, i.e. "Richard Adams - Watership Down - CD01 - 01.mp3". This was brought up today actually: https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/issues/127. I am considering adding support for CD # but haven't thought it through yet. Update: I meant to ask if you could share which audiobook wasn't pulling in the cover image, or which one was splitting into multiple books.

Do you mind sharing your folder structure and naming convention? I haven't tested a LAST, FIRST thoroughly yet and haven't seen anyone using that so I want to make sure there aren't bugs with the scanner. The scanner is pulling a lot of details out of the filenames

A few days ago I added support for the genre ID3 tag. I setup a button on the manage tracks page to dump the raw meta tags for each audio file to help with testing and see what other peoples metadata looks like. https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/issues/114#issuecomment-948122227 Can you click that button on a few of your audiobooks and share the raw tags you are seeing?

This could be a bug actually. Are any of your covers not loading?

Can you check that you are running version v1.4.15 I made a lot of updates to covers last week

@jimmy898 How are your audiobooks organized right now? Do you keep each audiobook in a folder with the book title? I put together an example directory structure https://www.audiobookshelf.org/docs#structure, which seems to be the standard for most. If you use that directory structure then audiobookshelf will be able to get the title, author, series, volume number, and some other info without needing any metadata set. To your question though, yes I do plan on adding this feature. I have quite a few audiobooks with bad metadata info to where it would be much easier if I could just press a button in audiobookshelf to fix. I just realized you mentioned opf file metadata. Right now ebooks are scanned into audiobookshelf, but metadata for those is not pulled in. This will also be a feature coming soon.

I didn't realize that is what I put in the docs. Last, First should work fine. It should even work with multiple authors in Last, First format. Let me know if you have trouble with that. The github issues page is where most of the discussion on features/bugs is happening right now. As well as github discussion page.

Thanks for your suggestions, I agree. This project took a back seat for a while because audiobookshelf got a lot more traction, and so I turned my attention towards that. I think the first step coming back to this is going to be fixing the performance issue. Then basically what you said, it needs to respect the folder structure.

Not right now, I played around a bit with RSS feeds so your books could be used in podcast players, but it lost priority. We have discussions on new features, the design and everything else on github. Your feedback and help with anything from testing to design would be greatly appreciated!

Yes it will scan OpenLibrary database for book covers

I did a big update to support sorting by first or last name. If you added your books before that update, then the new author properties are probably not set. I explained it in more detail on github: https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/issues/8. You can use the new batch edit and change the author name on all of your books, save, then change them all back. That will fix it for you. The initial login is "root" with an empty password. Once you are in you can set a password if you want on the account page.

This is fixed now. I just updated the scanner to update existing audiobooks. You could have also removed the one audiobook by clicking remove inside the edit modal and rescanning. They aren't saved locally yet. I have it set-up a metadata directory because I planned to have the covers saved locally, but I haven't decided the best way to approach it. I'm leaning towards having 2 settings for this; a) ability to opt-out completely, and b) option to store the cover in the same directory as your audiobook. Either way, this will be supported sometime soon.

3x speed is impressive, even for the slowest narrator! These updates are live. Playback rate picker goes up to 3x and playback rate is stored as a user settings. User settings will persist across devices. Keep the suggestions coming.

There was an error with the scanner that I just fixed. You can force update, then run the scan again (in settings), and it will add those missing audiobooks. There is one issue with your file structure though. It won't be able to identify the author, so that directory, "Frank Schätzing - Der Schwarm (ungekürzt)", will be used as the title. Often times the title and subtitle are separated by a " - " also, so I don't see an easy way to support that naming convention. The best way for now is to create a directory for each author.

Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server Follow on GitHub and consider providing feedback and suggesting features. Android app is in beta, help test it out and offer feedback. Get it here on the Google Play Store. iOS app is available to early beta testers using Test Flight, join here: https://testflight.apple.com/join/wiic7QIW See Documentation for supported folder structure and metadata. https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf

That is a generic exit code, not enough information to go off of.

Sorry for the late reply, I need to see about getting email notifications for the forum (update: just saw the big follow button). To answer your question, you can select many photos at once and add them to an album. Click the little circle in the top left of the thumbnail, select as many as you want, then in the top right of the page there is an add to album button. I still have it listed as in beta because like you mentioned, the documentation and some features are lacking. I was looking for some feedback as well first.

Support for fotosho docker container. Fotosho is a free and open source photo gallery. Organize your photos into albums internally and view as a slideshow. Does not require a database. Does not move, copy or modify your photos. Github: https://github.com/advplyr/fotosho Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/advplyr/fotosho