I want to get away from audible to save money and for privacy. I would like to keep buying audiobooks if possible and host them on my server to stream to my android phone.
I have an unraid plex server at home. Suggestions for hosting and streaming solutions?
Update: I ended up going with audiobookshelf. I love it so far and it does everything I need. More importantly (for me anyway) it’s not reliant on a $17/mo audible subscription. Please reach out over DM if you find this post in the future and have trouble getting audiobookshelf to work on unraid!
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Sounds like you may have already settled on audiobookshelf, but Plex can easily be used to host all of your audiobooks. You just use a music library.
Someone wrote a great walkthrough here.
I’ll probably try both! Thanks
If you’re on iOS, Prologue is the best mobile audiobook experience: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/prologue/id1459223267
Audiobookshelf is also very good (and free).