I don’t want to stream from my server though since I almost never listen to audiobooks while connected to WiFi. Podcast apps are already setup to manage syncing files for offline listening, most are well suited to work with Bluetooth and Android Auto. Podcast apps tend to be more mature and less troublesome than something new like audiobookshelf. Plus, if I get fed up with one podcast app I can just switch to another because RSS is standard. I don’t want another suite of software managing a metadata database. Getting the metadata correct in the files and utilizing an open standard is much more future proof.
I don’t want to stream from my server though since I almost never listen to audiobooks while connected to WiFi. Podcast apps are already setup to manage syncing files for offline listening, most are well suited to work with Bluetooth and Android Auto. Podcast apps tend to be more mature and less troublesome than something new like audiobookshelf. Plus, if I get fed up with one podcast app I can just switch to another because RSS is standard. I don’t want another suite of software managing a metadata database. Getting the metadata correct in the files and utilizing an open standard is much more future proof.