Liberate your Library from Audible

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  • @robertmcrackan8456
    @robertmcrackan8456 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    Libation author here. Thank you so much for your kind review :D I'm incredibly flattered that you included Libation in your channel. This is really surreal to actually watch a stranger using my software. Of course I know this is what happens with every user but I don't witness it. Thank you again!

    • @Technogizguy
      @Technogizguy  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      If your genuinely the author, than the honor is mine you made some great software in an age of controlling information

    • @hedgedrisk
      @hedgedrisk 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      when users download their books, do you get a copy because it's your program

    • @Technogizguy
      @Technogizguy  7 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      I don't think that's actually the author, but my network monitor said it basically only uploaded a few kb to authenticate, all other traffic was download. Your books are your own. Unless you share them

  • @michaelstrange2285
    @michaelstrange2285 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Many thanks, sir! I liberated my small-ish audiobook library from Audible using the software and steps you detailed here. You saved me countless hours of research and fumbling through the process.

    • @Technogizguy
      @Technogizguy  8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Glad it helped. Welcome to the self Hosted family

  • @weholmes5315
    @weholmes5315 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Downloading my Audible library of 1400+ audiobooks! I’ve lost access to dozens that I bought over the past 15 years. No more, thanks to you!😅

    • @Technogizguy
      @Technogizguy  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Glad to hear it, data preservation is important in the dying internet

    • @zombies123ify
      @zombies123ify หลายเดือนก่อน

      How many gb was that . I’m thinking of doing this and I have 700 books not sure how much space I need

  • @Amandolol
    @Amandolol 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Thanks for this! I love my audiobooks but fed up with large companies like Amazon, removing content I purchased!! I was confused how to set up libation but this was very helpful!

    • @Technogizguy
      @Technogizguy  25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Glad it helped

  • @DaftDude
    @DaftDude 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    So glad your recommendation popped up. I'm "liberating" my library as I'm typing this!

    • @Technogizguy
      @Technogizguy  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Glad I could help

  • @ChristopherPomerleau
    @ChristopherPomerleau 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    You have changed my life.

    • @Technogizguy
      @Technogizguy  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Glad to hear it 🙂

  • @Dazme4004
    @Dazme4004 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Thanks for this, I was looking for something to consolidate all my books in one app to listen and this looks like the one.

    • @Technogizguy
      @Technogizguy  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Glad it could be helpful. As a long time audible user abs and libation have filled the gap for books

  • @JosephiKrakowski512
    @JosephiKrakowski512 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thank you so much, can finally download audiobooks on my computer

    • @Technogizguy
      @Technogizguy  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Glad it helped

  • @Oberkaptain
    @Oberkaptain 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Is there a similar thing for the kindle books?

    • @Technogizguy
      @Technogizguy  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      As far as I know there's nothing quite this easy. I'm only slightly into eBooks so I'm not sure. There is a self hosted app like audiobookshelf called Kavita for ebooks and comic books. and I know using the kindle pc app and a program called Calibre you can backup the books and strip drm. Ill add this to my notebook and make a video on the subject someday. Hope this helps :)

  • @redhair5469
    @redhair5469 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Hello I did the audiobookshelf setup similar to you. How do i access it on my mobile? I have an app and it asks to enter a Http link but the url, the local host url you have in your video, similar to mine, It is not working. Any suggestions?

    • @Technogizguy
      @Technogizguy  8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      If your on your wifi or a vpn to your network it will be IPOFABS if you want to access the library externally, youll have to either port forward in your router or setup a reverse proxy. I use cloudflare to proxy my internal services along with multiple vpns into my network just in case

  • @TheStevenWhiting
    @TheStevenWhiting หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thank the Internet for this vid. Been using it for a bit but it wasn't obvious how you add a file to be downloaded. Clicking the traffic light next to a book! Would be nice if the creator made that more obvious. Other than that, great software.

    • @Technogizguy
      @Technogizguy  หลายเดือนก่อน

      The creator is just a single dude making the project. if I was more talented id fork the repo and make some improvements.Glad the video helped :)

  • @TheBigRat770
    @TheBigRat770 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    So do I own audiobooks or does it still need to be used by another program? Like can I use the audiobook as an MP3 on my computer or does it still need to go through an app?

    • @Technogizguy
      @Technogizguy  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Libation is downloading and stripping the drm, you could open the files in VLC or plex even (plex has a remember track progress setting if you set the library up as music) or you can use audio bookshelf like in the video to host your own version of audible

  • @chrisbee9164
    @chrisbee9164 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Great video thank you I have a question. I wanted to do this so that I could listen to my audiobooks on my fiio portable digital audio player along with all my music which I have copied from CD. I have the Fiio M15s. It does not seem to be able to read the m4b files, so I converted all the audiobooks within libation into MP3 files which are visible on the Dap. However there is now no chapter control and this is really not a great experience can you advise me how I can get that back or how I can get the dap to read the m4b files.
    Anyone else reading this or even the libation author if you are reading this please let me know.
    Libation is awesome and I am definitely considering making a donation as I am thrilled to have liberated my books from audible

    • @Technogizguy
      @Technogizguy  26 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Your hitting a limitation of the codec. Mp3 doesn't natively support chapters to my knowledge and if your mp3 player doesn't allow you to remember progress you won't be able to do what your trying. Sorry about that

  • @qq_pato_oo
    @qq_pato_oo 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    thank you sir!
    exactly what i needed and it works, is no scam or wants you to push you to some form of payment.
    much love

    • @Technogizguy
      @Technogizguy  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      No scams on this channel. My opinion can't be bought, i don't sell crypto or sugary drinks I'm just a dude who loves technology and wants to see humanity be something better

  • @v4vinaceous
    @v4vinaceous 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    How safe is to include your Audible credentials in Libation? Thanks!

    • @Technogizguy
      @Technogizguy  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Good question, while i dont know the developer personally the source code is open and thousands of people have used and modified the software. Obviously anything can happen in the tech world but id say its as safe as it can be. I feel far more comfortable giving libation my audible / Amazon details then I do giving plaid my bank details lol

  • @moradasverdes
    @moradasverdes หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hi. Thank you. I am using Libation. It works great. Please, I have a question. How can I "refresh" my library in Libation? I mean, I had 18 audiobooks is my Audible library. I connected it to Libation. One a second thought, I removed 5 from the Audible library AND from the Libation "queue - library" before converting 13 of them . All well up to this point. BUT now, even though I have reselected those 5 books into my Audible library, when i do "import - scan library" on the Libation menu, nothing happens. Is there a way to reconnect them? , Thank you.

    • @Technogizguy
      @Technogizguy  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Click library and sync or you can show deleted books. If that fails you might have to log out of libation and log back in

    • @CatitoArce
      @CatitoArce หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Technogizguy Thank you. I just retried and it is working now. I think I just had to wait. Thank you for your time. Cheers

  • @nonphotogenicful
    @nonphotogenicful 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    When i try to import my library i have a red light for all my books what am i doing wrong

    • @Technogizguy
      @Technogizguy  24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      After you import you have to click liberate, you can do this per book by clicking the stop light or in the menu there will be a liberate all button

  • @tonyross2947
    @tonyross2947 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    On Mac, the testflight thing says "This beta is full", so it would seem that I can't proceed after downloading my Audible library...

    • @Technogizguy
      @Technogizguy  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Really? I wonder if the devs will find a workaround. You still have the website you can stream from but i know its not as good as the app atleast on Android. Maybe apple will approve their app store appeal?

  • @madisonjones4139
    @madisonjones4139 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you!!! My problem is, the app for audiobookshelf isn’t available yet for IOS. Any app I can take my now liberated library to IOS?

    • @Technogizguy
      @Technogizguy  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You can actually get abs on ios you just ha e to go through beta flight but if you want a quick and dirty method set up a new music library in Plex and under the advanced settings there's a setting you can check to remember playback progress which will keep your playback progress in the book you won't get anything like bookmarks or anything fancy like that and unless you have metadata local plexus and super good at metadata for books but it isn't working quick and dirty method it's what I used to do before I found audio bookshelf

  • @williambolton5679
    @williambolton5679 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It worked very well, thanks, but one book failed to convert, repeatedly, with no explanation. Any ideas about that? Fifty some odd other audible books in my Amazon account were processed fine in Libation except for three that had disappeared ("borrowed"?). Can I get the books to play on my Kobo device? I haven't found any information about doing that.

    • @Technogizguy
      @Technogizguy  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      hm, I'm not sure how to help. I've never had an issue with any titles not working. as for the Kobo question I'm not sure, I have a boox tablet in house rn for testing but I've never used one of the kobos, you'd have to look into that on the GitHub. if the kobo can install android apps or at least play the converted files, I don't see why it wouldn't work.

  • @ZenAndPsychedelicHealingCenter
    @ZenAndPsychedelicHealingCenter 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Great and useful video. Thank you.

  • @rasoulamir1902
    @rasoulamir1902 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thank you very much, this is invaluable

    • @Technogizguy
      @Technogizguy  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Glad it helped

  • @cherubino95
    @cherubino95 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    what happens if i terminated my account subscription and i listen to those books with this app? would i get fined for that?

    • @Technogizguy
      @Technogizguy  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Nope They are backups of your books. even if you cancel your audible account you can still access the books inside of Audible. The way I currently do it is I don't even have an audible subscription, I just login to audible or amazon and buy the audiobook I want to listen to, full price and then backup to my audiobookshelf library and listen there. Audible for me is only the store to buy books

    • @cherubino95
      @cherubino95 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Technogizguy thank u

    • @Technogizguy
      @Technogizguy  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      No Problem, I didn't mention it in my video but there's a public domain library for audiobooks called Librivox. It's all volunteers that narrate the books and all the books are in the public domain so it's free. Won't have newer stuff but has a ton of great older books (My copy of The Art of War is from that site). Enjoy the Journey

    • @cherubino95
      @cherubino95 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Technogizguy thank you! Unfortunately im italian, so listening an entire english book would be more a torture for my brain lol. Anyway there are some youtube channel that have videos where they read some books in italian, so we have some free audiobooks too.

    • @Technogizguy
      @Technogizguy  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@cherubino95 ah yeah that will make it hard, librivox has multi language though food for thought. Also Ai could potentially help you translate a ton of non translated books. Thanks for watching my English content 😃

  • @TheStevenWhiting
    @TheStevenWhiting หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Didn't know about audiobookshelf!

    • @Technogizguy
      @Technogizguy  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Well now you do, hopefully it adds as much joy to your life as it has mine, and that's not even a joke. I love having full control of my library

  • @adrianmcdonald6424
    @adrianmcdonald6424 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Am I right to assume this will work with the other audiobook providers I have had to use in place of audible when I lost a title?

    • @Technogizguy
      @Technogizguy  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Good question. Yes and No let me explain. Libation as far as I know only works for audible but i may be wrong but audiobookshelf is just a convenient frontend for your audiobooks and comics. So if you already have audiobooks backed up from other sources then yes audiobookshelf will work but if your asking about libation i dont know

    • @adrianmcdonald6424
      @adrianmcdonald6424 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Technogizguy Cheers, thanks for that. I am currently in the middle of the download process thanks to you and have discovered about 8 now unavailable titles. As I had spent my money to purchase credits to get the books it is now gone so I will be writing to audible and asking 'what the actual...'
      It is amusing to me that they don't refund the credit because if a company loses publishing rights for a printed book they don't come to your house and steal the title off your bookshelf - and that is what it feels like with audiobooks, theft.

    • @Technogizguy
      @Technogizguy  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      You wont get far sadly. The issue goes all the way up. Our laws here in the US havemt caught up to modern forms of digital media and the capitalist companies have taken full advantage of that fact. They are more than happy to take more of your money snd give you less. At a certain point we all have to agree that if if buying is not owning than piracy is not stealing (people should still support creators, artists, studios and talents just not these greedy unwieldy corporations. Glad you were able to come to the light maybe next week we can get you building a plex server 😉

    • @adrianmcdonald6424
      @adrianmcdonald6424 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Technogizguy I got two credits back. It appears the bulk of my missing ones had been in the Plus catalogue. So it is still a small comfort. I actually got to chat to a live human who helped me on the spot. But now my total catalogue is backed up thanks to you. Cheers.

    • @ZenAndPsychedelicHealingCenter
      @ZenAndPsychedelicHealingCenter 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Technogizguy Well said.

  • @malteschummelfeder5829
    @malteschummelfeder5829 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I tried Libation, but somehow cannot scan my library. According to the log file, the login is cancelled "by the user" even though I didn't do anything

    • @Technogizguy
      @Technogizguy  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hmmm weird. You logged in successfully and all that? I havent had any problems so you might wanna reach out to the creator for some support if your having issues, best advice i have is double check the login, reinstall and reboot, beyond that i got nothing, sorry my friend

  • @BohicaJones22
    @BohicaJones22 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Dude! THANK YOU!

    • @Technogizguy
      @Technogizguy  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Glad to help!

  • @alexmaksimchuk
    @alexmaksimchuk 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I am extremely technology incompetent but really need to free my books so I can download them onto simple Mp3 players for my kids. I got to far as downloading the file but do not know how to 'unzip' it or 'run' it. I do not have the winRAR program on my computer. Can you share a link of where I can get it. I look at the app store and it did not have one with the same icon as yours. Please Help!

    • @Technogizguy
      @Technogizguy  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      If your on windows youll want to google winrar but the built in file explorer should handle the zip folder same for mac and linux if your trying to do this on a phone/tablet it wont work the libation software is win/mac/linux only. Once you get it setup the software will decrypt and convert the files. If your kids are using old ipods/iphones or andorid devices an audiobook player or even vlc will work but the setup is definitely best when tied in with AudioBookShelf since it acts as the frontend

    • @alexmaksimchuk
      @alexmaksimchuk 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Technogizguy Whoohoo! I got this to install and work BUT I did not make a file on my desktop for where to store these books. They are in Libation and all have the green light next to them. How do I find the files now that I did not make a place where to put them? I want to drag and drop the files into a mp3 player(I want to stay away from screens and internet for this). We have used sandisck Jam Clip mp3 player because those where the only one authorized to use audible. But they had a lot of glitches and after buying 5 of them its getting harder to find them new.
      Edit: I'm on Windows

    • @Technogizguy
      @Technogizguy  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@alexmaksimchuk There should be a button in libation to open the directory but if not on windows it should be in your user directory in windows, right under your user folder near app data and documents you'll see libation with all the files so for a full directory it should be C:\Users\$USER\Libation

  • @barrygbemc
    @barrygbemc 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thanks!

  • @randycny
    @randycny 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Yeah, Audible did that with some titles I BOUGHT and they just disappeared and are no longer on Audible. :/

    • @Technogizguy
      @Technogizguy  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      a big part of the problem is the antiquated laws that the geriatric puppets in dc won’t change. We as people have to take it upon our self’s to at least backup our favorites. ultimately like I said in the video I only go to audible’s website to purchase audiobooks and all of my listening and bookmarks, and my personal stories and all that live within audiobookshelf and I have my system set up where I can access it remotely most of the time I don’t even bother downloading the books because I can just stream straight from my server and I never have to worry about audible taking them because they lost the rights or because the author said something that maybe isn’t in favor anymore or whatever reason. Sorry to hear that my man i hope you found the series elsewhere

  • @gusolive
    @gusolive 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Good man!

    • @Technogizguy
      @Technogizguy  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If you subscribe your the better man

  • @MRDonWick2
    @MRDonWick2 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    how do i connect my library with the android app?

    • @Technogizguy
      @Technogizguy  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Put in the ip address of your abs instance or hostname if your reverse proxying

  • @mattmorelli9833
    @mattmorelli9833 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    how tf can i make these audiobook files into MP3 after getting them off audible?? Cant get libation to do it and I have no idea how to get these things off libation and onto my off-brand mp3 player I got for 20 bucks

    • @Technogizguy
      @Technogizguy  หลายเดือนก่อน

      There's a few of you guys I didn't think anyone would be using cheap mp3s anymore, in libation settings there's a setting to convert to mp3. It's a checkbox or a dropdown

    • @Mr_Kweeba
      @Mr_Kweeba หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Technogizguy Hi and thanks for the video. It's not just cheap MP3 players, it's in-car mp3 players which is the main place I listen to my audio books - i.e. not always from my phone but from a USB stick.

    • @Technogizguy
      @Technogizguy  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Mr_Kweeba Gotcha, i keep a usb in my truck just as a backup too. in the settings, under audio file settings you can select download as mp3 and it will transcode the raw audio file

  • @carlosdeluna7724
    @carlosdeluna7724 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    can you make a separate video on installing audiobooksshelf the separate way my shit is glitching and i wanna put my audio books on my mp3 so i can listen to books while underwater swimming

    • @Technogizguy
      @Technogizguy  หลายเดือนก่อน

      If you want to transfer to an mp3 player you don't need audiobookshelf, only libation and in the settings you should be able to tell it to convert to mp3 for ease then you can just transfer the file from your %USER%/Libation/Library. If your experiencing issues with either program I'd reach out to the developers on github. I may be able to help but my knowledge is limited on debugging as I've not had any issues with mine. I hope your able to get it working.

  • @rosfovhs
    @rosfovhs 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hey, is there a risk that my Audible account will be blocked?

    • @Technogizguy
      @Technogizguy  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I've never had an issue and I've been using this setup for about 2 years

  • @bploan8464
    @bploan8464 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Dude I'm going nuts.... Your video was awesome and I've it running perfectly on the pc but for the life of me I can't get my android app to connect to server and Reddit has been no help....
    I've a 60tb Plex server and it runs perfectly but I can't connect this app to server, they only talk about docker but I don't want to use that
    I've gone into network settings and found ip address but still don't connect
    Please any idea?

    • @Technogizguy
      @Technogizguy  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      So audio bookshelf works on a computer or browser but not your phone? If your not reverse proxying it the protocol will be http not https but if your using a reverse proxy it should work fine, give me some more details and I'll see if I can help

    • @alexmoisley4997
      @alexmoisley4997 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Technogizguy I'm also struggling with this (heeeelp)! I grabbed my IPv4 server address (192.168.x.x) but I get a 'Failed to contact server' code. Any help or advice here? Do I need to do something to create a server in the first place (technical Luddite here, lol).

    • @Technogizguy
      @Technogizguy  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@alexmoisley4997 so if your trying to connect make sure your using HTTP://IPOFSERVER:13378 this is also what you will put on your mobile app. In my production setup I have my system proxied behind cloudflare so I don't have to worry about the port and CF gives me https with a cert. let me know if that helps

    • @alexmoisley4997
      @alexmoisley4997 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Technogizguy amazing - that worked! I hadn't realized you had to add :13378

    • @kirstinsandblom9788
      @kirstinsandblom9788 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Technogizguy thank you so much for this and the whole video! I had a . instead of a : between the ip and the port. Thought I was loosing my mind 😅 Now I don't have to stress anymore about loosing my books!

  • @bluuowl3325
    @bluuowl3325 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I can't get it to work, I put in my account and nothing happens

    • @Technogizguy
      @Technogizguy  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Try using the authentication method where it uses a webpage. if that doesn't work, Id reach out to the Developer of Libation on Github. I also have issues putting my username and password in, amazon does not seem to like that.

  • @khaledmut1130
    @khaledmut1130 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Thanks fo this

  • @craig7111
    @craig7111 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thanks!