Anyone know of an open source alternative to Audible, for streaming/downloading audiobooks? I wish nostr had this. #asknostr #audiobooks
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I've listened to some on fountain, like Softwar
Ah, had not thought of that one, thanks.
Eventually, #Alexandria will have on-the-fly text to speech so any book/publication will be able to be an audio book.
But that's a while off yet.
Audiobookshelf. You can run it with Docker or the Umbrel App Store.
This isn't exactly what you were looking for but, if you have an Audible account then you may be interested in downloading your audiobooks to your computer for safekeeping.
https://github.com/rmcrackan/Libation
I've used it and it worked great.
Thank you, i'll look at this๐
Came back to zap this note because it sent me down the rabbit hole of downloading and self-hosting my Audible library. I used Libation to download, am hosting on my Plex server (Audnexus plugin for metadata), and Prologue (iOS) for my client.
Awesome. My next recommendation would be to ditch Plex for Jellyfin ๐
I made that switch years ago and never looked back.
Unbelievably timely; I just sat down literally tonight to get some stuff for myself on Audible for the first time.
When I wasnโt working, I was getting a lot of content from audiobookbay
Itโs Just a torrent site for audiobooks but its worked well for me over the years.
Hmm i'll look at that, thanks.
Iโd love to know where people here pirate audiobooks, films, literature, and more.
#asknostr
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Honestly? First step is usually to search Yandex.com for a web accessible version. For literature that doesn't show up there, there is #ebooks on irchighway.net (yea, fservs still exist). For full HD+ quality films torrents are still king from what I understand. Audiobooks I've honestly had the most luck with randomly found not so long lived repositories on online storage sites like mega or google drive, so if I see something I might want to get, I grab it.
If you can handle AI text to speech, use pocketbook and take your epub or pdf and just have it read it to you. Lots of voice settings so you can dial it in for what's comfortable. I don't even look for audio books anymore. Just take my calibre library throw a book in pocketbook and let it read to me
The subscription version of NaturalReader is pretty good. The AI voices are quite natural in it compared to the free version. Even the free version voices are decent. The mobile app is for iOS, so if you have a retired iPhone around after having switched your main phone to pixel/graphene, you can use it on wifi. Or use the web interface with your browser on a Linux laptop and pipe it to a Bluetooth speaker. You can import any text or pdf into it. Webpages, pdf books, OCR text, etc. and set custom reading speed. And it has captions so you can read and listen at the same time to enhance retention. It has really increased the number of books I read in a year.
Thanks i'll look there๐
Yea we definitely need this. I usually just search the PDF or audiobook on google. I've never paid for an audiobook because I hate Amazon. I want to pay the writer directly so Amazon gets nothing.
Audiobookshelf on Zapstore maybe
Take a look here for a good start: https://alternativeto.net/software/audible/?license=opensource
Thanks๐