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Wot The Fsck You Say, Spotify?

Edit: A couple times I’ve said eBook while I actually meant Audiobook. I’ve learned that Spotify has a 15 hour limit per month for their free ‘included in premium’ audiobooks. However these are the two books I listened to for free, and even rounding up to 13 hours it doesn’t make sense, unless they count accidental chapter skips which weren’t actually listened to. But it’s clear now that I know about the 15 hour limit, that they are not counting the time listening to paid audiobooks.

First book I listened to for free:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/457e0cd3-50d8-4501-b931-209463c4bcc1.png

Second book I listened to for free:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/6bf4396c-d21d-4383-9337-d9f65d3c1dda.png

OG post:

I purchased 3 eBooks in the Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy series (2 came free) and I’m on the final book. 20 minutes left in the last book and this is what Spotify tells me.

I’m over the edge now. I’ve been putting it off too long. I have a nice NUC I purchased about a year ago.

I’m tech inclined, 20 years of hobbyism, know the linux command line well. Work in IT consulting. But I’m busy. Very busy, and unmotivated to do things like hours of research and toying with settings getting things to work, if I ever have the time.

But this is the start of my new personal revolution.

I’ll read the wiki and have read about Sonarr, etc, and I also want movies and shows, but is there anything specifically for eBooks? Looks like Readarr is my best bet? Stripping the DRM of already purchased (and free with Spotify ‘Premium’) books to share on a seedbox is also something I’m willing to take requests on. Is there a way to rip from Spotify if you have a premium account? And what’s the best Android eBook reader (the last 3-4 I tried sucked with pirated eBooks)?

I know I’m sounding like a noob asking everything to be handed to me right now, but I am willing to put in the research and welcome and highly appreciate anyone with tips to point me in the right directions.

Wrrzag ,
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I didn’t really like readarr, it had a weird workflow and I find books to be different than series (they have longer release frequency, for example) so I’m getting them manually and importing into calibre for metadata. This way I can also check the quality of each epub because I hate finding that the book I’m going to read is badly formatted or has a weird encoding.

krnl386 ,
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I have the whole series as DRM-free MP3. Let me know if you want it.

Cinner OP Bot ,

DM sent

krnl386 ,
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Better late than never and I responded! Check your DM. :)

Artyom ,

Try Libby. It’s an audiobook streaming platform that goes through the library system.

andthenthreemore ,
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I can only help with the last part as I use audible. Have you tried Voice? droidify.eu.org/app/?id=de.ph1b.audiobook&repo_ad…

play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.ph1b.aud…

abbadon420 ,

It’s no too hard. You could do it over a weekend if you’re technically inclined like you say.

My tip: set it up on a clean pc (or nas or pi or whatever you’re gonna use), don’t use your old pc that still has all your files and stuff. I just booted up my old pc, that I hadn’t cleaned and got the whole arr suite and plex set up for my local network. It all works, but now that I want to open it up to the outside, I realize that have to first clean my pc. That pretty much means starting over.

TheBiscuitLout ,

Can you recommend a distro for being a media server? I too have been complacent about my media habits, and the time has come to sort it out.

MolochAlter ,

I’m very comfortable on debian but do make sure you disable automatic suspension if you install gnome because that shit is not in any settings you can edit in the control panel.

TheBiscuitLout ,

So it’ll go into suspension if I don’t deal with that at install, and I can’t turn it off later easily? That’s a dick, thanks for the warning

MolochAlter ,

No, you can deal with that at any time but it’s not in the settings, you need to look up where that setting is stored, it’s not even mentioned at install time, as far as I remember.

I did it months ago so i don’t remember where that is off the top of my head or I’d tell you directly.

TheBiscuitLout ,

No worries, there’s going to be a wealth of stuff I have to request myself with, it’s just another thing on the list. Thanks for pointing it out!

Mixel ,

Depends on your use case I guess. I personally use unraid for my server which works fine but if you don’t want to pay anything and have a good experience choose Ubuntu server or Debian (since they are the most supported and stable) but I have no clue about that either, theoretically you can do it on every distro

TheBiscuitLout ,

Nice one. It’s been a hot minute (or a warm couple of decades at least) since I’ve used Linux, but I had a play a short while back, and remembered more than I expected, so I’m going to turn an old Mac mini that I have spare into a media server

lipilee ,

If I read correctly it says “don’t use spotify for listening to ebooks”.

96VXb9ktTjFnRi ,

Soulseek/Nicotine+

uis ,
@uis@lemmy.world avatar

fsck.ext4

If you want to listen music more conveniently - qbittorrent, the pirate bay, vlc, enjoy

Jonnsy ,

For ebooks z-library is king. They even have an android app.

For music I use deezload2bot on telegram and save it on my sd card. Works great for me.

soullioness ,
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Besides piracy, you can also find modded versions of apps, they basically unlock all pro features and often add more. I know I have a Spotify app, but it’s really old. Still works though.

where_am_i ,

And so find yourself a plexshare. Or, I guess, nowdays a jellyfin share or whatever.

I pay 10$/months and I have all the movies and tv shows and audiobooks in the world. In one app. Awefuly convenient.

Why would I ever bother setting this up myself if I can just pay someone 10$ to do that. I’m busy and all. Oh, yes, I can maintain a Linux server, no problem. I just value my time.

Snapz ,

Keep embracing digital only, assholes… This is what you’re signing up for.

Cinner OP Bot ,

I don’t have time to sit down and read books. I have the disease of modernity. Will you read to me when I call?

FunderPants ,

Get on a plexshare/emby share /appbox with a good ebook selection. Save your time.

jasep ,

This is the piracy community. A comment like this isn’t very useful without at least a point in the right direction of how to get started doing this. How do you find one?

AlwaysNowNeverNotMe ,
@AlwaysNowNeverNotMe@kbin.social avatar

Vpn set to northern Europe, audiobookbay

FunderPants , (edited )

There used to be a plex share subreddit that would turn up if you just googled “plex share”. I thought just knowing the services existed would be enough for the guy to search it and turns those up.

But now that I check it seems that reddit shut those subs down about 5 months ago, so I have no idea where people get access to those services now outside direct referrals.

dillekant ,

Relevant Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDfNRWsMRsU

lightnsfw ,

I use the readera app on my android tablet. Haven’t had any problems with it yet.

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