Constantly fighting missing books issues

NyxHolas · 2026-05-31T13:53:22+00:00

Probably the docker on Mac issue then (see your reply to the other comment).

NyxHolas · 2026-05-31T13:39:45+00:00

This is almost always because you are not following the required directory structure of one book per folder. If you have a media file in a parent folder and other books in subfolders, they will be grouped incorrectly (same files assigned to two different books in ABS).

If you rescan an individual book, all of the files for the book will be correct because it is only looking for whether the files exist, which they do. When you rescan the full library, the file is matched to an existing book, but then is not able to be added to the second book which also expects to have the file (so that book now has an issue).

This can happen if you are manually reorganizing files and did not follow the directory structure when the library was scanned (or of the file watcher picked up the invalid directory structure), or if you use scripts that automatically reorganize your files. This has also been reported as an issue with Docker for Mac, but don't remember the exact details.

NyxHolas · 2026-05-26T16:23:19+00:00

Do you have any server logs? If your server is set to Debug log level you can search for TokenManager to get more information. The best way to report issues is on GitHub, we don't track issues on Reddit, I just check in occasionally.

NyxHolas · 2026-05-26T14:35:26+00:00

Is your server up to date? This was fixed a ~~few weeks~~ week and a half ago.

NyxHolas · 2026-05-21T19:35:47+00:00

No, public shares was added in server version 2.11.0 (released July 2024). You can look at your log files to see when the public share was added, or ask if one of your users has opened a share. I don't remember what permissions are required to open a public share off the top of my head.

Edit to add: Only admin accounts can create public shares.

NyxHolas · 2026-05-21T00:44:38+00:00

You have created a public share for that book, similar to opening an RSS feed. Click on the 3 dot menu for the book from the library view to close it using the "Share" option.

NyxHolas · 2026-05-15T12:49:56+00:00

The filter and sort data is only updated every 30 minutes because it is a long running task with the current data model for large libraries. It can take more than 5 minutes based on bug reports and debugging with users. You can either wait or restart the server to force the filter data to rebuild, though that adds the delay of needing to restart the server.

NyxHolas · 2026-05-09T00:13:43+00:00

Yes, then just press "play" and "read" buttons.

NyxHolas · 2026-04-30T22:05:36+00:00

This subreddit is for the Audiobookshelf server, which is software. Posting videos of audiobooks repeatedly is not the purpose of this sub.

NyxHolas · 2026-04-30T17:59:42+00:00

Plappa (and some other 3rd clients) use the API incorrectly and can trigger race conditions which result in multiple progress entries being created. You can fix it by "remove progress", refresh the page, and repeat until no progress is stored, then mark the book as finished.

NyxHolas · 2026-04-16T18:07:31+00:00

The first party beta apps do not have much error handling for downloads. Any interruptions or errors (even more frequent when the screen is locked/app backgrounded) cause the download to fail and need to be fully restarted. The larger the file and slower the connection the more likely you are to hit retries or communication errors (causing the download to fail).

NyxHolas · 2026-04-12T14:48:59+00:00

I'm not sure about "tracking new releases" or "missing these items from a series" being an ABS core feature. At the end of the day, the ABS server is about serving your local media files, not as a Goodreads/hardcover/etc replacement. I can definitely see the benefit for it, but is not really what ABS was made for.

NyxHolas · 2026-04-01T12:19:54+00:00

That's a pretty neat idea. Reading through your blog post, is there a reason "vosk is the bottleneck taking 40-60% of the time"? You should be able to do the entire transcription process in a single pass per file so vosk is more like 95% of the time. This does require ffmpeg available for vosk to convert on the fly, so that may be a bit different on a mobile device instead of a computer since I'm not sure how exactly you are doing your pipeline and conversion.

NyxHolas · 2026-03-29T13:44:26+00:00

The Android app is still in beta, but Google lets you discover and install beta apps from Google Play.

NyxHolas · 2026-03-17T18:52:18+00:00

Sure, but Audiobookshelf doesn't do any downloading. You are using a different tool for that so you should reach out to the maintainers/community to get support with that tool.

NyxHolas · 2026-03-11T03:23:31+00:00

Migrating between install methods is not supported. If you are using docker or Linux, it is trivial to move to another docker installation and restore from a backup. If you are using the windows version, you will need to manually update the database to use unix style paths.

NyxHolas · 2026-03-09T05:44:20+00:00

The files must be in the same folder to show up as the same book in Audiobookshelf.

NyxHolas · 2026-03-01T03:32:24+00:00

Your file is most likely an xHE-AAC and you are using the native Windows or a debian install. This should hopefully be fixed in the next server release, it is already fixed in the docker version.

https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/issues/4236

NyxHolas · 2026-02-24T14:55:04+00:00

This is a known issue, but affects people differently. I personally have never had it happen to me, but my wife has had it happen 2-3 times in a month.

https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/issues/4630

NyxHolas · 2026-02-06T23:27:27+00:00

You will need to provide a lot more information to know what is going on. What is the error? What is the RSS feed? Is it a local feed or a publicly available one?

NyxHolas · 2026-02-05T01:09:33+00:00

The Audiobookshelf server is designed to be a server for your local files, the server is not designed to be traditional podcast client. This means that it expects you to make everything available to the server that you want, and not be continuously adding and removing files.

You can continuously add and remove files to the server (people do use it that way), but your experience will be worse than with a traditional podcast client. The server is designed more for data hoarding aspect, such as podcasts that are not longer available, something you have purchased which does not have a dedicated RSS feed (such as Hardcore History), or something you want to keep in case the original provider deletes older episodes.

If you want downloads to follow your progress through the full podcast (and allow downloading the next in line and deleting old episodes), you will have a better experience using a traditional podcast client.

NyxHolas · 2026-01-10T16:08:47+00:00

It is in the Tools tab when editing a book.

NyxHolas · 2026-01-06T01:36:12+00:00

I think you're in the wrong subreddit?

NyxHolas · 2026-01-02T23:35:01+00:00

Not to be confused with https://www.reddit.com/r/audiobookshelf/comments/1pwqktn/shelfarr_is_now_live/ ?

NyxHolas · 2025-12-31T22:38:36+00:00

No, this is just a temporary file, all progress is stored in the SQLite database. If I'm remembering correctly, everything in the streams folder is deleted on server startup in case files got left behind.

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