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 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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

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

[–] red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] RicoBerto@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

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

[–] Chaser@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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.

[–] Sailing7@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Usenet is still one of the best sources when it comes to german media.

Also audiobooks.

You might wanna check out https://github.com/PCJones/usenet-guide/

Cheers

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

I've never used Usenet before. So, thanks for the guide! 😊

[–] somerandomname@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There is a curated list of links for german audiobooks: tarnkappe.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

I was aware of the page.
I wasnt aware of their lists. Neat!

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 4 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

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

[–] red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

Audiobookbay

[–] junusdenised420@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

Thanks, I'll check it out ☺️

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Checkout https://getlibation.com/ so you can backup your Audible books too.

[–] Chaser@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Good hint! I already did so. But if anybody reading this who has an Audible account: Use this tool; it's awesome!

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I feel like it's only a matter of time until Amazon kills this too after they locked down Kindle dedrm.

When the time comes I guess I will have to find a better way to get audiobooks than signing up for 1€/month Audible trial twice a year.

[–] Chaser@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

Probably. Libation uses the auth key from the Audible iPhone app. However: Apps have to have their secret hard coded. They can only rotate it. YouTube tries this too. But one update later yt-dlp works again. So I guess this is a fight Amazon can't win.

[–] Kory@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not on the high seas, but 831 results: https://archive.org/details/audio_bookspoetry?and%5B%5D=language%3A%22German%22

[–] Chaser@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

There are many fairy tales. I loved to hear these as child. Thanks for sharing!