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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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[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[–] beerclue@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

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.