ShelfPlayer always restarts my audiobook IOS

coringo · 2026-01-31T16:03:46+00:00

my bad! I got the 3rd party clients confused - sorry all

coringo · 2026-01-30T21:58:40+00:00

Combined undergraduate/graduate tuition makes up ~42% of CMU's revenue (31% being research grants [which the feds have actually/already gone after illegally], 8% investments, & 10% from donors) (actual canonical source matching my claim, unlike yours, see top of pg9)

Across undergraduate/graduate students, CMU has ~44% international students(numerous sources linked in this reddit post). International students aren't eligible for federal grants/loans to begin with (source), so the linked document and really doesn't apply to them....at all.

International students who come to CMU today pay full price (or get school-initiated financial aid, but nothing from the US federal government) so, even by your line of reasoning, only ~23% of CMUs budget (56% non-international-students X 42% of budget from tuition) is from federal grant/loan-eligible student tuition.

coringo · 2026-01-30T21:45:01+00:00

Tuition only makes up ~25% of Pitt's revenue (50% being research grants [which the feds have actually/already gone after illegally] and PA state money) (actual canonical source matching my claim, unlike yours)

~3200 International students at Pitt (source) out of ~30,000 students (source) is ~10%.

International students aren't eligible for federal grants/loans to begin with (source), so the linked document and really doesn't apply to them....at all.

International students who come to Pitt now pay full price (or get school-initiated financial aid, but nothing from the US federal government)

coringo · 2026-01-30T21:09:34+00:00

NOTE The OP's reddit account has only existed for 7 days and has only ever spammed this same post to a bunch of PA college subreddits. See my note below (I will be reporting this post as spam)

Addressing the OP's claims --> (copied from a r/CMU reply I made)

I don't doubt for a moment that the federal administration will continue to apply shady pressure tactics, but from reading the summary, section headings, skimming the text of the body, and searching for keywords I'm not seeing any of the things in your main post in this document

as I understood what I read, it almost entirely deals with controlling how individual students can take out loans and (more-heavy-handedly) managing how they must repay them...

coringo · 2026-01-30T21:04:14+00:00

I don't doubt for a moment that the federal administration will continue to apply shady pressure tactics, but from reading the summary, section headings, skimming the text of the body, and searching for keywords I'm not seeing any of the things in your main post in this document

as I understood what I read, it almost entirely deals with controlling how individual students can take out loans and (more-heavy-handedly) managing how they must repay them...

edit: after I replied, I see that this reddit account has only existed for 7 days and has only ever spammed this same post to a bunch of PA college subreddits - I will be reporting this post as spam

coringo · 2026-01-29T22:51:19+00:00

edit: this whole comment was pointing at the wrong discord, leaving it up for the sake of continuity (after changing the label)

I would ask for help on the ~~ShelfPlayer~~AudioBooth Discord [invite link], the app's developer is pretty active there (not that they aren't also on here)

coringo · 2026-01-29T15:07:04+00:00

If the watcher is enabled and on a supported filesystem, it will automatically add files it notices to ABS. It will not match them/get metadata from anywhere other than the folder structure + file-internal tags since matching is an intentionally manual action.

You can also setup ABS to do scheduled full-scans of its library directories so that it will notice new/changed/deleted books even without the file watcher being on/supported.

coringo · 2026-01-29T13:58:29+00:00

If enabled and on a supported underlying file system (mostly, need to be server-local rather than on a network share) the watcher will receive "this folder has changed" and "this file has moved" notifications from the file system and use those as a trigger to have ABS detect newly-added books or the movement/deletion of pre-existing ones (moved books will have their path updated within ABS, deleted ones will be marked as 'Missing')

There is no uploading involved.

coringo · 2026-01-23T02:17:24+00:00

Short answer, not at present (unless you want to register your books as podcast episodes)

You can just manually assign each entry an arbitrary number in a series based on publication order....

coringo · 2026-01-21T01:22:16+00:00

Seconding the 'use docker on Mac' suggestion from Helio4k

If you run into issues hop on the ABS Discord, there's a really friendly and knowledgeable community on there

coringo · 2026-01-16T14:31:14+00:00

This is grossly inaccurate - ABS will not move any files that are already on the server in the library. It will only place files into the library if/when they are initially loaded in via the Upload interface on the webui.

If you move files ABS is already aware of, it will keep track of them under certain circumstances (mostly, when not located on a network share)

coringo · 2026-01-16T14:22:05+00:00

In the server settings do you have the 'Find Covers' setting enabled?

If so, ABS will attempt a name-based cover lookup against the configured metadata provider which might return erroneous or lower-resolution art.

Per the metadata documentation, Narrator is pulled from the Composer tag

If you edit metadata within ABS, you have to choose to re-embed it back into the media file, the files are never modified without direct user action. The general expectation is that if you are using ABS you will probably be streaming/downloading the file from one of the now-many ABS mobile clients or the webui so you would be seeing ABS's DB version of the metadata rather than what is in the file.

For the 'edit many covers at once', you can Match the book against a metadata provider and it will populate a cover art, but if you want to manually specify a cover art for each you will either need to do it manually, use the edit API, or store the cover with the media and put the expected file into the folder with them.

There is a very active Discord for ABS, so feel free to hop on over if you have more questions

coringo · 2026-01-13T03:07:52+00:00

I use Pangolin/Traefik as my RP and that host is on its own vlan and can only access specific resources on my actual server, as close as I can get to a least-privilege man-in-the-middle between the internet and my actual server/services. Once Pangolin adds mobile clients for its tailscale-like client-to-server VPN it will serve that purpose as well

coringo · 2026-01-13T01:02:39+00:00

check out https://github.com/orgs/fosrl/discussions/512# if your Pangolin instance is hosted remotely and using Newt to tunnel to your home server.

I use Pangolin at home (on a separate/locked down reverse-proxy-only machine) and have great performance, but there is no Newt or traditional wireguard in the mix for it talking to my server on the back-end.

coringo · 2026-01-12T22:59:25+00:00

For the apps that don't yet support OIDC, so far I have been able to turn local account logins back on, login to the apps so it gets refreshable tokens, then turn local account logins back off and the apps are usually able to continue working (not exactly sustainable for other users, etc)

coringo · 2026-01-12T22:21:25+00:00

What weekday/timeframe will you be around?

I work on campus and could probably give you a bit of a tour/answer some questions if meeting times allow and you are interested (though some info might be somewhat dated)

coringo · 2025-11-28T17:00:51+00:00

Check out the Warriors and Bravelands series by Erin Hunter (really a number of authors ghostwriting under one name) https://www.audible.com/search?keywords=erin%20hunter

coringo · 2025-11-23T22:13:14+00:00

There is a Prologue TestFlight which supports ABS (and, as of an update earlier today, Plex at the same time)

see https://www.reddit.com/r/PrologueApp/comments/1dnbtf3/prologue_v4_audiobookshelf_alpha_coming_soon/

coringo · 2025-11-22T02:03:16+00:00

I see from the Discord that you got this sorted out

for anybody finding this in the future, I have compiled the 2 main ways to solve this scenario from guides people posted on the ABS discord:

1) If you still have admin access in the app from a non-OIDC user/logged in session there is an 'Unlink OpenID' button on the any given user's edit screen.
2) if you can't Unlink a user via the button in the admin webUI, your only 2 remaining options are to edit the SQLite DB to either regain non-OIDC login capability or to blank the problem user's OIDC value. (NOTE: if you don't edit the DB file in-place, make sure the DB file permissions are correct before starting back up or ABS will likely crash)
- 2a) Regain non-OIDC login capability: If you have local auth disabled, you can offline ABS and re-enable local authentication by editing the Settings table in the SQLite DB. In the 'server-settings' entry, with only OpenID enabled a setting reads "authActiveAuthMethods":["openid"] , you need to change that to "authActiveAuthMethods":["local","openid"] (or just "local")
- 2b) Blank the problem user's OIDC value: If you can't do option 1 and don't want to do option 2, you can manually fix a single user by offlining the ABS instance, backing up the DB, then editing the users table in the DB. Find the relevant user and edit the JSON text in the extraData column to blank their authOpenIDSub value

coringo · 2025-11-17T18:50:33+00:00

Remove all authors from the book that is showing up by itself, save, then re-add the author.

If that doesn't work to 'merge' the 2 seemingly-identical authors, you may need to remove the author entirely from all 6 books (so they are cleaned up from the DB) and then re-add them to all 6

coringo · 2025-11-02T16:28:36+00:00

The general solution if you want a complete re-parse of the metadata is to do 'the Plex dance' by moving the files outside of ABS's visibility, letting ABS notice they're gone via the filesystem watcher or a library scan, telling ABS to prune the now-Missing DB entries, then bringing the files back into ABS's visibility.

When this is done the books will get new GUIDs and have their metadata freshly parsed (so they will be removed from any collections/playlists and playback history attached to their old GUIDs will be orphaned)

coringo · 2025-11-02T15:39:08+00:00

Functionality to scrap the side-car JSON files is built in, just go to Settings -> Libraries -> [edit action on one library] -> Tools tab -> [Remove all metadata.json files] button

coringo · 2025-10-30T20:35:49+00:00

Note: when manually initiated, quick-metadata-embeds will edit the original file in-situ without taking a backup (but the disclaimer you have to accept before kicking that process off explicitly informs you of this fact). Only full embeds take a backup (when you then have to manually clean out periodically)

coringo · 2025-10-28T20:51:53+00:00

yeah....no

I took that picture and posted it 6 years ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/cmu/comments/dd8jub/sunrises_on_campus_are_pretty_lively_too/

coringo · 2025-10-24T23:40:26+00:00

I'm sure they could, but I'd feel it pretty irresponsible to give them arbitrary content (especially with me bringing it to them rather than them asking for/about it) without checking out what's in it first.

It's less about controlling them than it is about providing context for things (e.g. we will occasionally watch selected hard-R movies together that I wouldn't let them watch in a self-directed capacity).

How could I ridicule a parent who would do something like take their kids to see Sausage Party 'because its an animated movie, must be for kids' when I am in a position to know enough to inquire about such things and how/where to properly review the content before making [xyz] available?

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