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Basically title, looking for a good OSS to play audiobooks from a Plex server

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[–] EmpiricalFlock@beehaw.org 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

At the moment I'm using Audiobookshelf (completely separate from my Plex Media Server, but running on the same computer) in a Docker container, but since I don't yet have a reverse proxy set up it is LAN or downloads only. So, I would be very interested in an answer to this as well.

Edit: I just noticed your post in c/Plex; you may want to include a link to the other post in the body so that people answering can check the other to see if their answer has already been offered.

[–] Twigs218@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

+1 for Audiobookshelf and combine it with a VPN such as OpenVPN for remote access.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

If you want a proper audiobook server, and don't mind installing one alongside Plex, Audiobookshelf is fantastic.

[–] Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Plexamp is free now. Just use that.

[–] EmpiricalFlock@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago

Plexamp is fantastic for music, but does it work well for audiobooks yet? As far as I can tell Plex just does not handle long audio files well.

[–] beyond@linkage.ds8.zone 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Is it actually free (as in freedom), or merely gratis? It looks proprietary to me.

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 10 months ago

For my Jellyfin server I use Symfonium to play audiobooks. It's not FOSS, but it was well worth the $5 I paid for it due to all the audio settings available.

Just checked and it does support Plex, Emby, and Subsonic as well as Jellyfin.