Hello fellow pirates 👋
I'm sick of Audible and it's buggy app. Due to their excessive a/b testing the app stops working every second night. So I setup a selfhosted audiobookshelf instance.

However, I need my audiobooks to fall asleep and I don't want to listen to the same books again and again, so I need a new source. Do you have any recommendations? In best case in German language, in worst case in English.

Thank you in advance! ☺️

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[–] Clear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For English audiobooks I use audiobookbay, I think you can find something in other languages too

[–] Chaser@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks for the tip! There are indeed a lot of german ones 👌

[–] red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

For small values of "a lot". I am in the same boat, there are not many German audio books.

[–] RicoBerto@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There are some great resources being posted, but I would like to offer a different one. MyAnonaMouse is a private tracker just for books and book adjacent things (comics, audiobooks, even radio shows) and at least at the time I was looking was said to be the best spot. It wasn't hard to get in, the rules are VERY lenient and it's quite easy to build up a large ratio with their points. As long as you are comfortable with using torrents and are able to leave them running to share the love with others I have yet to find a book unavailable. Feel free to ask about MaM if you have any questions.

[–] Chaser@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

I'm not that into torrents, but i'll undust my qBittorrent and give it a try! Thanks!

[–] Chaser@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago

I also found another source myself: The library. Just found out our village has one. It has like 150 audio books on cd. As it's only open for 2 days a week I have to wait a bit. But then I may visit them with my notebook and an external cd drive and make some…backups 😉

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Try YouTube. It's surprising how much stuff ends up there and doesn't get deleted. And you can easily download the stuff with yt-dlp.

[–] Chaser@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

Wow. You're right. Just searched for "Terry Pratchett" and got a playlist with 40+ books. Btw: yt-dlp also supports youtube music links. Including albums or even artists 😉 just in case you want to dump spotify in favor of navidrome

[–] freebee@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

Your local library can be an awesome source for audiobooks. And don't forget to check your local thrift stores and flohmärkte once in a while, many audiobooks for 1 - 2 €, also many recent ones... Rip it, put it on your audiobookshelf, it is very easy and fast for most audiobooks.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Well, I've listened to audiobooks on Spotify (and Tidal) for a while, but that's not piracy. You could try "hoerbuch" followed by the top-level domain of the United States. And the local library here has several shelves filled with audiobooks. I might have ripped a few to listen to them on modern devices...

[–] Chaser@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

Thanks! The theme makes me quite nostalgic. Reminds me of good old movie blog 😉

[–] red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

hoerbuch

I hate these download pages that partner with scammy hosting providers. They are always shit to use and want some payment data and they make it intentionally difficult to not buy those premium accounts. Fuck all of them.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I know. What helps is to learn which buttons to click and which ones to avoid. A good adblocker (uBlock for example) and some downloader. Not sure what people use these days, I have JDownloader2.
Still sucks, but it works. Not sure if there's better options out there, I'm not aware of any.

I never buy premium accounts either. I don't want to support their business model. IMO piracy needs to be free. Once I want to pay money, that goes towards the artists who created the content.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago

Audiobookbay

[–] junusdenised420@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

fmhy.net has german stuff, they might have what you are looking for or check the german torrent trackers https://www.sb-innovation.de/showthread.php?35824-Liste-aktueller-deutscher-Torrent-Tracker-V2

[–] Chaser@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks, I'll check it out ☺️