With Readarr calling it quits, I’m looking for an alternative. More interested in audiobook functionality than ebook. I tried LazyLibrarian, and absolutely hated it.
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Never had any success with any of the book stuff.
There’s seemingly no established ripping scene for books. They don’t follow a system.
The only reason why sonarr and radar work so well is because the scene is so neatly organised with schedules, structure etc
Chaptarr is looking like it will be the choice, still really early though. Readarr + reading-glasses should work well enough for you in the meantime until chaptarr is in a better spot in development for regular use.
Yeah, I still use the latest readarr builds with both ebooks and audiobook, and with rreading-glasses they still work. I am also in the chaptarr discord and got access to the alpha build, which looks really promising. Still rough around the edges, though.
It’s a real shame because Readarr did work and they really just needed to fix their own metadata servers. No? Or were there other problems I’m not aware of?
They don’t have enough maintainers left.
This is how I learn readarr is done :( I was just thinking of setting it up again one of these days but was having some issues with lidarr that got in the way
If the issue was just metadata parsing, surely the rest of the software can be saved and forked, no? No need to create everything from scratch?
They would be willing to reopen it if people show up to develop it. The problem is that seemingly noone is invested enough to keep it going.
https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf
I manually grab what I want from mam
Audiobook shelf is great, and they have several good client apps in addition to the browser app.
LazyLibrarian is fantastic for ebooks. Basically useless for audiobooks. I’ve found the entire *arr stack seems ill suited for audiobooks.
Discord 😬
Edit:
DuckDuckGo’s AI says this, which sounds interesting if true, though it doesn’t provide a source to confirm:
Chaptarr is an upcoming project that is a heavily revamped fork of Readarr, currently in closed Alpha phase, and aims to improve interoperability with Readarr. You can find more information and updates on its development on GitHub
