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.
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.
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.
Apparently the folks from the rreading-glasses repo accuse Chaptarr of being vibe coded, can find it directly in their README.
For the unaware rreading-glasses is a rebuilt metadata server for Readarr, also happens to be endorsed by Readarr/Servarr, just switch it out and you’re good to go. However, Readarr won’t receive anymore feature updates or bug fixes it seems.
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?
It never worked well for me. Not because it couldn’t fetch ebooks, but because it defaults to adding an author’s entire library, which was dumb for my reading habits.
I would search for a book, find it, only be able to add the author, and then have to uncheck almost all the books the author had written because I just wanted one.
Sorting by “books” just showed me a list of hundreds of books when I just wanted 7 of those.
If your workflow matched that for readarr, I’m sure it worked well, metadata problems aside.
Huh. I am sure you could search for individual books. For sure you could do it by goodreads ID I think? Yes, adding an entire author as the primary way to do things is a bit much for some. I know for sure I have managed to do individual books before now.
They don’t have enough maintainers left.
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.