Also, love this type of thread. My favorite thing about lemmy has been making it my music discovery engine. I’ve bookmarked this thread to check out everything everyone else is listening to.
Audiobookshelf doesn’t support OPDS, and if that’s your use case, you’re probably better off with Kavita.
I’m okay with it because I can fire up the web browser on my pocketbook ereader and download the books. It’s clunky but it works well enough for me.
I haven’t implemented it yet, but audiobookshelf does support sending ebooks to devices via email. I just haven’t bothered to get a mail server up and running for it.
Both Kavita and Audiobookshelf require a particular folder structure. Since Kavita is comics first, the folder structure for ebooks isn’t quite as intuitive, and I didn’t care for it.
I had Audiobookshelf up and running well before I spun up Kavita, so I was already used to that folder structure, and since it’s designed around books anyway, to me it makes more sense.
Regardless, as long as you use the proper folder structure for the service you land on, you should be good to go.
The other reason I went with Audiobookshelf is that to me, it made much more sense to have all of my audiobooks and ebooks under the same service. (Albeit in different libraries)
I use it for my comics, but I didn’t care for the file/folder structure it required for books, so I’m using audiobookshelf for my ebooks as well as my audiobooks.
If you want to use L2 to host different services, I’d HIGHLY recommend looking into Docker. With docker you can containerize the different applications/services you host on L2, which keeps them isolated from each other and the L2 base system.
So, with Docker, you could set up L2 with a Jellyfin container to be your media server for music and videos, you could set up another container to host your website when you’re ready for that, and much more depending on your wants/needs.
I’ve got an old pc I set up with Ubuntu server (20.04), and am currently running 20-30 containers with different apps and services. It’s great.
this video is a great tutorial to get a docker setup up and running and this guy’s channel is full of great step-by-step tutorials for setting up different apps and services with Docker. He’s great because he is really thorough and explains everything really well.
It is. I used to sync mine via nextcloud, but I don’t run nextcloud on my homelab anymore, so I switched to Joplin server. Nothing wrong with nextcloud, was just not what I needed.
Also, love this type of thread. My favorite thing about lemmy has been making it my music discovery engine. I’ve bookmarked this thread to check out everything everyone else is listening to.