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About

Audiobookshelf is a self-hosted audiobook server for managing and playing your audiobooks.

Features

• Fully open-source, including the android app (in beta)
• Stream all audiobook formats on the fly
• Multi-user support w/ custom permissions
• Keeps progress per user and syncs across devices
• Auto-detects library updates, no need to re-scan
• Upload full audiobooks and covers
• Backup your metadata + automated daily backups

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Android app is in beta, try it out on the Google Play Store

iOS early beta available using Test Flight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/wiic7QIW - Join the discussion

Organizing your audiobooks

Directory structure and folder names are important to Audiobookshelf!

See documentation for supported directory structure, folder naming conventions, and audio file metadata usage.

Installation

** Default username is "root" with no password

Docker Install

Available in Unraid Community Apps

docker pull advplyr/audiobookshelf

docker run -d \
  -p 13378:80 \
  -v </path/to/audiobooks>:/audiobooks \
  -v </path/to/config>:/config \
  -v </path/to/metadata>:/metadata \
  --name audiobookshelf \
  --rm advplyr/audiobookshelf

Running with Docker Compose

### docker-compose.yml ###
services:
  audiobookshelf:
    image: advplyr/audiobookshelf
    ports:
      - 13378:80
    volumes:
      - <path/to/your/audiobooks>:/audiobooks
      - <path/to/metadata>:/metadata
      - <path/to/config>:/config

Linux (amd64) Install

Debian package will use this config file /etc/default/audiobookshelf if exists. The install will create a user and group named audiobookshelf.

Ubuntu Install via PPA

A PPA is hosted on github, add and install:

curl -s --compressed "https://advplyr.github.io/audiobookshelf-ppa/KEY.gpg" | sudo apt-key add - 

sudo curl -s --compressed -o /etc/apt/sources.list.d/audiobookshelf.list "https://advplyr.github.io/audiobookshelf-ppa/audiobookshelf.list" 

sudo apt update 

sudo apt install audiobookshelf

or use a single command

curl -s --compressed "https://advplyr.github.io/audiobookshelf-ppa/KEY.gpg" | sudo apt-key add - && sudo curl -s --compressed -o /etc/apt/sources.list.d/audiobookshelf.list "https://advplyr.github.io/audiobookshelf-ppa/audiobookshelf.list" && sudo apt update && sudo apt install audiobookshelf

Install via debian package

Get the deb file from the github repo.

See instructions

Linux file locations

Project directory: /usr/share/audiobookshelf/

Config file: /etc/default/audiobookshelf

System Service: /lib/systemd/system/audiobookshelf.service

Ffmpeg static build: /usr/lib/audiobookshelf-ffmpeg/

Reverse Proxy Set Up

NGINX Reverse Proxy

Add this to the site config file on your nginx server after you have changed the relevant parts in the <> brackets, and inserted your certificate paths.

server
{
        listen 443 ssl;
        server_name <sub>.<domain>.<tld>;

        access_log /var/log/nginx/audiobookshelf.access.log;
        error_log /var/log/nginx/audiobookshelf.error.log;

        ssl_certificate      /path/to/certificate;
        ssl_certificate_key  /path/to/key;

        location / {
                     proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For    $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
                     proxy_set_header  X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
                     proxy_set_header  Host              $host;
                     proxy_set_header Upgrade            $http_upgrade;
                     proxy_set_header Connection         "upgrade";

                     proxy_http_version                  1.1;

                     proxy_pass                          http://<URL_to_forward_to>;
                     proxy_redirect                      http:// https://;
                   }
}

Apache Reverse Proxy

Add this to the site config file on your Apache server after you have changed the relevant parts in the <> brackets, and inserted your certificate paths.

For this to work you must enable at least the following mods using a2enmod:

• ssl
• proxy_module
• proxy_wstunnel_module
• rewrite_module

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
<VirtualHost *:443>
    ServerName <sub>.<domain>.<tld>

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

    ProxyPreserveHost On
    ProxyPass / http://localhost:<audiobookshelf_port>/
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond %{HTTP:Upgrade} websocket [NC]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP:Connection} upgrade [NC]
    RewriteRule ^/?(.*) "ws://localhost:<audiobookshelf_port>/$1" [P,L]

    # unless you're doing something special this should be generated by a
    # tool like certbot by let's encrypt
    SSLCertificateFile /path/to/cert/file
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /path/to/key/file
</VirtualHost>
</IfModule>

SWAG Reverse Proxy

See this solution

Run from source

Note: you will need npm, node12, and ffmpeg to run this project locally

git clone https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf.git
cd audiobookshelf

# All paths default to root directory. Config path is the database.
# Directories will be created if they don't exist
# Paths are relative to the root directory, so "../Audiobooks" would be a valid path
npm run prod -- -p [PORT] --audiobooks [AUDIOBOOKS_PATH] --config [CONFIG_PATH] --metadata [METADATA_PATH]

Contributing / How to Support

See the incomplete "How to Support" page